The latest national news update from the National Indigenous Radio Service.
One dead in Melbourne shooting
One man is dead and two officers have been injured in a police shooting in Melbourne’s northwest.
Police opened fire on the man who later died in suburban Tullamarine about 1.45am this morning, and two others who fled were arrested nearby soon afterwards.
Two police officers were also hurt, but police say they were not shot.
They have been taken to hospital but their conditions and the nature of their injuries is not known.
Homicide squad detectives have been called to the scene, with the shooting also to be examined by the professional standards command.
Three dead in 8 hours on Qld roads
Three Queenslanders have died in the space of eight hours in separate road crashes yesterday.
A 97-year-old man died after the motorised mobility scooter he was driving collided with a station wagon at an intersection north of Brisbane about 12.45pm yesterday. He died later in hospital while the 22-year-old female driver was treated for shock at the scene.
Late yesterday evening in Everton Park a car veered into the oncoming traffic and collided with a ute. The 31-year-old Kallangur male driver was treated at the scene but also later died in hospital.
A few hours later at Seventy Mile, south of Charters Towers, a driver veered off the road and rolled his ute several times. The 23-year-old male driver was pronounced dead at the scene.
We stuffed up, Pyne says on lost votes
The federal government will learn valuable lessons after conceding it stuffed up by losing votes in the House of Representatives, the minister meant to be overseeing business has admitted.
The opposition exploited the government’s slim majority when many MPs were leaving Canberra yesterday afternoon, winning three procedural votes on a bid to debate a call for Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to establish a royal commission into banks.
Christopher Pyne, Manager of Government Business, told the Nine Network this morning his government had learned a valuable lesson.
It’s believed to be the first time since the 1960s that a majority government has lost a vote in the lower house.
Burney calls for black flags for federal parliament
The first Aboriginal woman to sit in the federal House of Representatives has used her maiden speech to parliament yesterday to call for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags to be flown in the parliametary chamber.
Linda Burney – a former Minister in the NSW Labor government – gave her maiden speech to parliament on Wednesday, and noted that in her previous job, the NSW Parliament proudly flew not one but three flags.
Ms Burney called on federal parliament to consider flying the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags once Constitutional Recognition of the First Australians had been achieved.
Killer NSW ex-cops to discover their fates
Former NSW detectives Roger Rogerson and Glen McNamara are due to find out today whether they will spend the rest of their lives in jail for executing a young drug dealer for financial gain.
Both men were found guilty by a jury in June of killing 20-year-old Jamie Gao, taking his 2.78kg of ice and dumping his body at sea bundled in a tarp and chains on May 20 in 2014.
At their sentence hearing last month, crown prosecutor Chris Maxwell QC said they applied their police experience, training and cunning to carry out the killing.
Both men had blamed each other for the fatal shooting and lawyers for the pair, who each still deny the crimes, argued against the imposition of a life sentence.
Robert Hughes launches High Court appeal
Former Hey Dad! star Robert Hughes is poised to take his fight against child sex abuse convictions to the High Court.
The ex-actor’s lawyer filed documents in the nation’s highest court earlier this year seeking special leave to appeal against Hughes’ convictions and jail term.
The case is expected to come before the High Court in Sydney today.
Hughes was jailed for at least six years in 2014 after a jury found him guilty of 10 charges relating to sexual and indecent acts perpetrated on four young girls in the 1980s and 1990s.
The NSW Court of Criminal Appeal threw out his appeal against the convictions and sentence in December last year.
