Morning mail: Offshore detention costs $5bn in four years Wednesday: Australian officials say detention centres won't be cleared, even if US resettlement deal goes ahead. Plus, Australia's video-on-demand problem Refugee supporters hold up a banner at a rally supporting refugees in detention. Photograph: Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images Eleanor Ainge Roy @EleanorAingeRoy Good morning, this is Eleanor Ainge Roy bringing you the main stories and must-reads on Wednesday 19 July. Top stories Today marks four years since Kevin Rudd's announcement that "any asylum seeker who arrives in Australia by boat will have no chance of being settled in Australia". In that time offshore detention has cost Australian taxpayers almost $5bn, and the future of those held on Nauru and Manus Island remains in limbo. Despite consistent reports of physical violence – including murder, sexual abuse and allegations of torture by guards – and catastrophic rates of mental health damage and self-harm, roughly 2,000 people remain on Nauru and Manus. Now the proposed US resettlement deal has foundered, with the US hitting its 50,000 cap for refugee resettlement this year and officials abruptly leaving their on-island interviews on Nauru two weeks early. Australian officials have conceded that, even if the US resettlement program does go ahead, it will not clear the detention centres, leaving "a balance" on the two islands. The Human Rights Law Centre's Daniel Webb said offshore detention had run "four years too many". Donald Trump has said Republicans should "let Obamacare fail", after the dramatic collapse of their efforts to repeal and replace Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act (ACA). The president spoke as a new plan to repeal the 2010 law with no replacement was effectively foiled by a deeply divided party. This followed the withdrawal of legislation that blindsided the president on Monday night. Trump made the repeal and replacement of the ACA a central promise of his election campaign. Their failure means that Trump will mark six months in office on Thursday without a major legislative achievement, despite Republicans controlling the White House, Senate and House of Representatives. Liberal party infighting over proposed changes to preselections in New South Wales continues with a fiery email. High-profile members have attacked what they call a culture of rorts and lobbyists in the state branch of the party and accused certain figures of trying to protect factions by stymying reform. Members will vote on whether they get a say in the future selection of MPs this weekend, and tensions are running high. The Minneapolis police officer who allegedly shot Australian woman Justine Damond has apologised to the family. Mohamed Noor expressed his condolences in a statement via his lawyer, saying: "He takes their loss seriously and keeps them in his daily thoughts and prayers." Noor is one of only a small handful of Somali Americans on the Minneapolis force and comes from the city's substantial Somali community – the largest in America – that has frequently been maligned in the rightwing press. His hiring was hailed as a major step towards diversifying the police force, and he was personally welcomed into the force by the city's mayor. The latest shooting threatens to ignite tensions in Minneapolis on a number of fronts, after a series of high-profile recent shootings, including that of Philando Castile, whose death was livestreamed to Facebook. A woman who visited a Saudi Arabian heritage sight in a short skirt is being investigated by religious police for wearing "indecent" clothing. The snapchat video shows the woman touring Ushaqir in a skirt and crop-top, without a veil, which breaches Saudi Arabia's strict dress code requiring women to wear headscarves and abayas (full-length robes) in public. Versions of the videos went viral on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter amid a furious debate about dress and the treatment of women in Saudi Arabia. The woman apparently told police that she had been accompanied by a male relative – or muharam – at all times during her visit, in accordance with Saudi's male guardianship system, and that she did not post the video herself. Sport England beat South Africa by two wickets to reach the women's World Cup final. Photograph: Harry Trump-IDI/IDI via Getty Images England has beaten South Africa by two wickets in a tense finish to reach the women's World Cup final: South Africa 218-6, England 221-8. The tournament hosts await Australia or India in Sunday's final at Lord's in London. Female rugby league players have never played a State of Origin match. For reasons that have to do with funding and development, the interstate challenge – also known as the Nellie Doherty Cup – still operates under residential selection policies, meaning that players are picked for the state in which they live, not their state of origin. But the clamour for change is reaching fever pitch, as Joe Gorman finds out. Thinking time Aboriginal dot painting is the focus of a new exhibition in Sydney that looks at why so many artists – Indigenous and non-Indigenous – are attracted to the style of painting. Photograph: Helen Puckey/Papunya Tjupi Arts The dot painting has been synonymous with Aboriginal art for decades, but a shift is taking place towards different forms and styles and the wider art world is starting to notice. dot, dot, dot […], a new exhibition at Sydney College of the Arts, tackles some of the issues around the use of Papunya dots in paintings, but also looks at why so many artists – Indigenous and non-Indigenous – are attracted to using dots in their work. It's not just Game of Thrones, it's not just The Handmaid's Tale – Australia has a video-on-demand problem. Still isolated, still a little parochial, Australia's platforms and broadcasters are getting away with offering too little for too much. Audiences have had a gutful, but don't really expect things to change, writes Lauren Carroll Harris. From Jennifer Melfi quizzing Tony Soprano about his duck obsession to Gabriel Byrne with In Treatment - what do real psychotherapists think of their glamorous TV counterparts? Guardian writer Zoe Williams explores the astonishinly rich dramatic territory able to be mired by therapists and their patients, but the pros tell her much of what happens on-screen would be a clear-cut case of "gross malpractice" in the real-world. What's he done now? Donald Trump has taken to Twitter to discuss what to do about Obama Care - and offered two contradictory solutions to the quagmire in the space of half a day. "Republicans should just REPEAL failing ObamaCare now & work on a new Healthcare Plan that will start from a clean slate. Dems will join in!" Trump tweeted late on Monday night (US time). Then, by 7.58 on Tuesday morning he'd markedly changed his tune, tweeting: "As I have always said, let ObamaCare fail and then come together and do a great healthcare plan. Stay tuned!" Media roundup "'Watersgate" declared the Adelaide Advertiser on its front-page. "Greens Debacle" says The West Australian; "Would the last Green left turn out the lights?" asks the Daily Telegraph; "Another one bites the dust" splashes the Sydney Morning Herald; and "Greens in Crisis" at The Courier Mail. Larissa Waters' resignation dominates the front-pages of all major Australian newspapers today, as does the ongoing investigation into the shooting of Australian woman Justine Damond. If you need a change of tune, the NT News not unusually devotes its front-page to the saltwater crocodile "stalking" Darwin's Cullen Bay Beach. A 2m croc has been spotted two days in a row. The Sydney Morning Herald says the cost of crossing the Harbour Bridge may rise to $8 each way to help cover the $14 billion price-tag of the tunnel linking the Northern Beaches to the city's Inner West. And the ABC speaks to Aboirignal lawyer and activist Michael Mansell, who says the Referendum Council report generated after a summit at Uluru in May is "disappointingly weak and will not lead to any benefits to Aboriginal people". Coming up A Senate committee hearing in Sydney will investigate the use of cladding material on Australian buildings in the wake of the deadly Grenfell Tower fire. The committee will hear from Engineers Australia, the Australian Institute of Builders and other industry groups. Support the Guardian It might take a minute to catch up on the news, but good journalism takes time and money. If you already support Guardian Australia, your generosity is invaluable. If not, and you value what we do, please become a Supporter today. Thanks. Guardian News & Media Limited - a member of Guardian Media Group PLC. Registered Office: Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9GU. Registered in England No. 908396