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The central Australian town of Alice Springs is experiencing a spike in social unrest and violence, prompting a rapid visit by the prime minister and temporary restrictions on alcohol. Some are calling for permanent alcohol bans, but local Aboriginal organisations say this won’t fix the core issues: long-term neglect of housing, health and welfare. Sarah Collard reports from Alice Springs and Indigenous affairs editor Lorena Allam explores why 20 years of government interventions failed to prevent this crisis

The end of the line for Matteo Messina Denaro came in mundane fashion. On a Monday morning the mafia boss was waiting in a queue for a Covid vaccine in Palermo when police closed in. A colonel from the carabinieri, Italy’s militarised police, asked him: “Are you Matteo Messina Denaro?” “You know who I am,” came the reply. The Guardian’s Lorenzo Tondo and Clare Longrigg tell Michael Safi that the capture of such a high-ranking mafia boss is significant but does not kill off the organisation, which has evolved into a different proposition for authorities than it once was. Police hope it will allow them to solve murders stretching back decades. The last confirmed sighting of Denaro before his arrest was in Tuscany in 1993, around the time explosives in a parked Fiat were detonated outside the Uffizi gallery, killing three people, injuring more than 40 and damaging priceless works of art

The Albanese government has announced it will set up a National Women’s Health Advisory Council to tackle medical misogyny, with members being announced on Tuesday and the first meeting set for 20 February. But what is medical misogyny and what can a national council really do to address it? Jane Lee speaks to the assistant minister for health, Ged Kearney, and the Guardian’s associate news editor, Gabrielle Jackson, about why such a council is needed. Plus: we hear from three women who have experienced sexist treatment while seeking medical care

As the Albanese government promises to create more permanent pathways for migrants, Jane Lee speaks with immigration historian Dr Rachel Stevens about how different policies and world events have shaped Australia’s immigrant intake over decades. We also hear from Liliana Sanchez and Marina Khan about their experiences migrating to Australia

After three years of rain and floods, Australia’s weather could soon flip into a hotter, drier phase – El Niño. At home, this could mean higher risk of bushfires and severe coral bleaching, and globally, it could mean exceeding 1.5C warming for the first time. Environment reporter Graham Readfearn explains why to Laura Murphy-Oates

On 26 January 85 years ago, a group of Aboriginal men and women gathered at Australia Hall in Sydney to hold the first Day of Mourning, calling on the government to grant Aboriginal people full rights of citizenship. Playwright and Quandamooka man Wesley Enoch speaks to Laura Murphy-Oates about the ‘neglected’ history of protest on this day that’s as old as Australia Day itself, and why we need to move beyond celebrating the ‘British colonial project’

It was 6.34pm on 12 December when Madelyn Train had the last contact she would ever have with the three people she considered her parents. Gareth Train texted her from his rural Queensland property saying people had been sent ‘to kill us’. By this stage, Nathaniel, Stacey and Gareth Train had shot dead constables Matthew Arnold and Rachel McCrow, and their neighbour, Alan Dare. By later that evening, the trio would also be dead. Today, Madelyn Train speaks to the Guardian’s Nino Bucci about the ‘evil’ actions of her parents and their spiral into the world of online rabbit holes and conspiracy theories

The discovery of batches of classified documents on Joe Biden’s property presents a headache for the president – but his case is quite different from that of Donald Trump, reports David Smith in Washington

Over the past five years the New Zealand prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, garnered admirers around the world with her signature mixture of empathy and strength – qualities that helped steer her country through natural disasters, a pandemic and the Christchurch mosque shooting. However, to Ardern’s critics, her soaring rhetoric was not always backed by desired legislative reforms.The Guardians’s Aotearoa New Zealand correspondent Tess McClure speaks to Laura Murphy-Oates about Ardern’s shock resignation and the legacy she leaves behind

The opposition leader Peter Dutton has amped up his criticism of the voice to parliament this year, reiterating questions about specific details of the body. Last week he challenged the government to either legislate the voice or release a draft bill before the referendum. Laura Murphy-Oates speaks to Prof Megan Davis, a Cobble Cobble woman and expert adviser to the government on the referendum process, about Dutton’s ‘inexplicable’ demand for details and the road to the referendum