The latest national news update from the National Indigenous Radio Service.
A preliminary hearing of the royal commission into the treatment of children in the Northern Territory’s juvenile justice system will be held today.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced the royal commission, to be jointly operated by the NT government, after a Four Corners report of young people being abused over a six-year period by staff at the Don Dale centre.
Mick Gooda – the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Social Justice Commissioner at the Human Rights Commission – and former Queensland Supreme Court Justice Margaret White will head the royal commission.
SAMSUNG has told Australian Galaxy Note7 owners to turn off their phones and return them to stores after reports the phone’s batteries have caught fire or exploded while charging.
Around 51,000 phones have been recalled in Australia by Samsung Electronics Australia, following similar moves overseas.
The company says Samsung customers can receive replacements or full refunds, and courtesy devices will be available tomorrow for those who had to return their phones.
SOUTH Australian Liberal senator Cory Bernardi says there needs to be donation reform for political parties following the Sam Dastyari scandal.
Senator Bernardi says donations should only be accepted from voters on the electoral roll, as the Labor senator faces continued pressure over revelations a Chinese donor paid his personal debt.
A new deal with China-based global e-commerce giant Alibaba aims to get more Australian products sold via the company’s website.
Fresh from attending the G20 summit, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will visit the Alibaba headquarters in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou later today where he will witness the signing by Austrade of an agreement with Alibaba.
The Alibaba market has more than 430 million users and takes 12.7 billion orders each year.
QUEENSLAND’S corruption watchdog wants anyone with knowledge of dodgy political donations made during this year’s Gold Coast City Council elections to come forward.
The Crime and Corruption Commission probe comes two months after the Electoral Commission of Queensland launched its own investigation into donations to some candidates.
In May, it was reported former Turnbull government minister Stuart Robert bankrolled the campaigns of three independent candidates.
ANIMAL rights group PETA is urging people to contact South Australian Racing Minister Leon Bignell to stop a planned new greyhound racetrack from going ahead.
It says the track should be stopped because Greyhound Racing SA has refused to release information about how many race dogs are killed in the state.
But Mr Bignell says the government will continue to support the SA greyhound racing industry, which is on track to reach its target of zero deaths in the sport in SA by 2018.
In sport … With feedback mostly negative and all coaches against the AFL bye, Aussie Rules boss Gillon McLachlan is yet to decide if the pre-finals rest period will become a permanent fixture.
The league introduced an end-of-season bye this year, wanting to stop the trend of finals-bound clubs resting players in the last round of the regular season.
VENUS Williams has squandered a match point and lost in the fourth round of the US Open to a player a dozen years younger than her, 10th-seeded Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic.
Pliskova reached the first grand slam quarter-final of her career by coming back to edge seven-time major champion Williams in the last two sets overnight.
