And that’s where we’ll leave you this evening. Here are the headlines from today:
A 24-year-old Aboriginal man has died in police custody in Alice Springs after being restrained when police intervened in an altercation at a Coles supermarket.
Western Australia will provide a support scheme for Aboriginal people removed from their families as children under Stolen Generations policies, leaving Queensland the only Australian jurisdiction yet to offer financial redress.
The former Labor minister Ed Husic has called for the government to move beyond words to action over Israel’s blockade of aid into Gaza, and said sanctions on Israel are “probably under consideration”.
More than 1,000 artists, writers and performers have signed an open letter to the government, calling on Australia to honour its international obligations over the conflict in Gaza and safeguard the rights of workers who speak out in support of Palestine.
Current and former Liberal party MPs and senators have said the party’s focus on culture wars lost them the election.
The Woodside boss Meg O’Neill has criticised young people for being ideologically against fossil fuels while ordering cheap online consumer goods “without any sort of recognition of the energy and carbon impact of their actions”.
The Australian Turf Club has rejected a plan to sell Rosehill racecourse to the NSW government.
The federal government will not offer buybacks to residents affected by the NSW floods, Anthony Albanese has said, saying that decision is a state issue.
The NSW police minister, Yasmin Catley, has announced a new effort called Taskforce Falcon after a spate of gangland violence.
Queensland nurses are set to walk off the job after 96.5% of union members voted to strike this week.
A 32-year-old woman has been charged with murder after the death of a child at a home in a Queensland coastal town.
Adelaide residents have pushed back at Tesla’s bid for a new factory in the city’s south, targeting Elon Musk and the company’s environmental and ethical credentials.
Norway’s PrincessIngrid Alexandra will move to Australia to study at the University of Sydney.
Thanks so much for your company. We’ll be back early tomorrow morning for a big Wednesday of news. See you then.
Man charged over alleged looting in mid-north coast after flooding
A man has been charged over alleged looting in the flood-affected mid-north coast.
At about 3.45am today, police were called to Mortimer Street in Wingham after concerns about suspicious activity.
Police allegedly saw a man placing items into a hatchback. A police search of the vehicle found tools, paintings, family photos, DVDs, a fish tank, lamp, tyres and other personal items.
The man, 44, was given a roadside drug test and allegedly returned a positive detection for methamphetamine. He has been charged with goods in personal custody being stolen and breach of bail.
Manning/Great Lakes police district crime manager, Det Insp Natalie Antaw, said extra resources had been assigned to prevent offending in the area.
“We encourage the public to report any suspicious behaviour to police as soon as possible so that we can take action,” she said.
“I’d also like to remind people that taking any goods that are not yours, no matter where they are found, is an offence – even if the items have been moved from their original place by flood waters.”
NT police say senior commissioned officer placed in charge of investigating death in custody
More on the death of a man in Alice Springs: NT police have said that as per their protocol, this is considered a death in custody, and so a senior commissioned officer has been put in charge of the investigation.
The spokesperson said:
We have had detectives involved in the preliminary investigative process and major crime investigators are flying to Alice Springs this afternoon to assist with the evidence collection in relation to this matter.
This matter will be investigated and reported on, on behalf of the coroner and the Northern Territory pathologist is travelling to Alice Springs tomorrow and will conduct an autopsy in relation to the matter.
Aboriginal man, 24, dies after being restrained by police at Alice Springs supermarket
NT police have been speaking in Alice Springs about the death in custody earlier today.
The man, identified since the incident as a 24-year-old Aboriginal man from Alice Springs, died this afternoon after being restrained by police at a Coles supermarket.
The police spokesperson said:
At 1.10 pm this afternoon, there was a report of an incident that occurred in the Coles supermarket in Alice Springs. The incident involved a person who was placing items down the front of their clothing, who was confronted by security guards.
There was an altercation that occurred as a consequence of that confrontation. One of the security guards was assaulted and there were two police officers who were in plainclothes at the time in the supermarket, who rendered assistance to the security guards.
The male behaved rather aggressively and was placed on to the ground by those police officers. He was later identified as losing consciousness.
Other officers and St John Ambulance arrived and the man was taken to the Alice Springs hospital, but died soon afterwards.
Larissa Waters: Labor must knock back Woodside North West Gas Shelf extension
The Greens leader, Larissa Waters,has urged Labor’s Murray Watt to “knock this mega carbon bomb back” rather than approving an extension to Woodside’s North West Gas Shelf.
Despite Labor going to the election emphasising gas as a “transition” fuel, Waters told ABC’s Afternoon Briefing that there was enough gas available in Australia already.
Waters said:
It is not, in my view, the role of an environment minister to tick off on the country’s biggest dirty gas project that we have ever seen that would lock us into fossil fuel usage out of 2070.
Waters said the choice was open to the Labor government to go down a different route rather than allow Woodside to extend its operations, saying “the public are really watching this and they want to know that this new government will take climate seriously”.
Waters was derisive about Woodside chief executive Meg O’Neill’s comments that young people were hypocritical because they were “ideological” on fossil fuels while “happily ordering from Temu”.
Waters said:
You can’t make something like that up. Here is a very well-paid, wealthy fossil fuel executive trying to claim with a straight face that the climate crisis is the fault of young people shopping online for goods they can afford in a cost-of-living crisis. So I’m afraid I take her comments with a massive grain of salt. You can’t be the head of a massive dirty gas company and point the finger at other people about the climate crisis.
Nick Visser
That’s it for me. Stephanie Convery will be on hand to see you through the evening’s news.
Man dies in police custody in Alice Springs
Stephanie Convery
A man has died in police custody in Alice Springs after being restrained when police intervened in an altercation between the man and a security guard at a Coles supermarket.
In a statement this afternoon, NT police said they received reports of the altercation at 1.10pm local time. Two police officers were in the store at the time of the incident and restrained the man, the statement said. A short time later, the man “stopped breathing and CPR was commenced”.
The man was taken to Alice Springs hospital by St John Ambulance and was pronounced dead just after 2:20pm.
A crime scene was established at the shopping centre, which will remain closed, and the incident is being treated as a death in custody.
The Northern Territory police force major crime section detectives are travelling to Alice Springs to continue the investigation.
Minns says Rosehill effort has changed conversation about housing in Sydney
The NSW premier, Chris Minns, said while he would have “loved” to see the Rosehill proposal pass, he believed it was a “fight worth having”. Minns said:
I think this would’ve been good for racing and good for Sydney. But rather than throw the car in reverse and say we can’t have big bold ideas any more, I think we’ve got to double down on it.
The premier added he believes the effort “did change the conversation about housing in Sydney for the better”.
Chris Minns says Sydney has ‘missed out’ after Rosehill decision
The NSW premier, Chris Minns, says he is disappointed with the result after the Australian Turf Club rejected plans to sell Rosehill racecourse to the state. Minns said:
I think it’s an opportunity that Sydney’s missed out on … This shouldn’t take the wind out of the sails when it comes to bold ideas for housing.
We should be taking more risk when it comes to major housing proposals. We’ve been far too timid for far too long.
ATC chair Peter McGauran ‘disappointed’ in result, but it’s ‘finished, it’s done’
ATC chair Peter McGauran said the vote was binding and the plan would not move ahead in any way. McGauran said:
It’s finished, it’s done …
I am disappointed that the vote wasn’t successful, but I understand that people opposed it.
He said the deal would have transformed “the entire Sydney racing scene for the next 100 years”. McGauran went on to say the ATC remained a strong and viable club, but said it would be more of a challenge going forward as the group would not have the funding a sale would have brought.
