The latest national news update from the National Indigenous Radio Service.
WA: Three killed in WA smash
Police are this morning investigating a multiple fatality after a horror car crash north of Perth overnight.
Two vehicles collided on Indian Ocean Drive, four kilometres north of Yanchep about 7pm last night.
Three were killed and another was taken to hospital by ambulance, while two adults and three children were treated at the scene for minor injuries then taken to hospital for follow-up care.
Other states annoyed by PM’s WA GST plan
At least one state is rebelling against Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s plan to change the way the GST is distributed.
The prime minister told the WA Liberal Party state conference last week he would work with premiers to put in a floor to how low a state’s share of the revenue could drop – a plan that would greatly benefit the West.
But federal Labor frontbencher Helen Polley told ABC radio this morning that the move would be fought in Tasmania.
Currently, Western Australia contributes substantially less GST to Commonwealth coffers than it receives back, while Tasmania receives more GST revenue than it earns.
NT: ‘We can change’: CLP appeal to NT voters
The upcoming Northern Territory election is not about popularity or niceness, but about who will make the hard decisions, chief minister Adam Giles says.
At the CLP campaign launch in Darwin over the weekend Mr Giles acknowledged his government’s first term had “looked messy” and conceded it had made mistakes. But he said unpopular decisions to sell the Territory Insurance Office and lease Darwin Port for 99 years were necessary and had to be made quickly.
The CLP won government in a landslide in 2012, with 16 of 25 seats, but have since lost five members who now sit as independents, having variously accused the government of racism, sexism and misogyny, and broken promises.
Mr Giles is the first Aboriginal person to lead a state or Territory. The NT goes to the polls on August 27.
Escaped NSW prisoners caught in Qld
Three men who escaped from a minimum-security prison in northern NSW have been arrested in the Queensland town of Goondiwindi.
The three men, two aged 20 and the other 22, escaped from the Brewarrina Correctional Centre at about 2.40am on Saturday after allegedly threatening an officer with knives, a hammer and a screwdriver and stealing a four-wheel-drive vehicle.
NSW Police said that at about 11pm on Sunday Queensland police officers were patrolling in Goondiwindi when they saw the men and arrested them without incident.
Top cops front Lindt inquest after delays
The three most senior NSW police during the deadly Sydney siege are finally set to front a coronial inquest after being hit by unexpected delays.
Commissioner Andrew Scipione, his deputy Cath Burn, and acting commissioner Jeff Loy are due to give their highly-anticipated evidence at the Lindt Cafe inquest this week after a series of delays. The inquest gets back underway in Sydney this morning.
Armed bandits rob man in Brisbane
Two bandits armed with a rifle remain on the run after robbing a man in a Brisbane street.
The victim was returning to his car at Sherwood on Sunday night when the pair drove their ute up behind him and demanded his keys.
The man complied and fled, and the bandits stole a wallet from the car before taking off in the ute. They remain on the run.
Most child sex abuse in out-of-home care
Foster homes, orphanages and other out-of-home care facilities are the most dangerous hotspots for child sexual abuse in Australia, a royal commissioner says.
Justice Peter McClellan, who chairs the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, says out-of-home care is of central concern to the inquiry.
New commission analysis reveals 43 per cent of victims who’ve given evidence the sessions were abused in out-of-home care.
