Full video report from @yonibashan and myself in Tel Aviv earlier this month, when Iran fired almost 200 missiles - many ballistic - towards Israel. We were initially heading towards a mass shooting incident where nine people were killed by two Hamas terrorists when the missiles were launched by Iran. Read the full story here: l.taus.au/rI4

WATCH | Nineteen Australian women and children linked to Islamic State have returned home in a covert operation that sparked violent confrontations at Melbourne Airport. Read more: bit.ly/4wPaLst

Johannes Leak gives us the thinking behind his budget night cartoon, and how he chose to draw up Jim Chalmers. 2026 budget: bit.ly/4nkYDLv

RT @australian: As further evidence of dire town camp living conditions is published today, and demands grow for greater accountability on…

Residents live without working doors or taps while the corporation meant to help them outspends an entire city council on wages. Read more: bit.ly/48Qiaxv

A six-week-old baby has been flown to a Darwin hospital with “suspicious” head injuries after being allowed to remain with its family despite separate concerns being made about the child’s ­welfare in a remote Aboriginal community. Three child protection case workers were stood down from the Northern Territory’s Department of Children and Families on Wednesday over the tragic death of Kumanjayi Little Baby, after The Australian revealed she had been the subject of six child protection notices before she was allegedly kidnapped and murdered at an Alice Springs town camp. This masthead can now reveal a baby was flown to the Royal Darwin Hospital with its mother from a community in the Gulf of Carpentaria in the last several days following reports of “suspicious” head injuries, heaping further pressure on the department for transparency over its child protection procedures. Full story in The Australian: l.taus.au/gnI |

RT @australian: From infancy to the night she was allegedly abducted from her bed, Kumanjayi Little Baby was the subject of more than a doz…

RT @australian: Cohort of ISIS brides and their children will arrive on Thursday with at least one to be arrested immediately. Read the ful…

A week on from a shocking riot in Alice Springs, what are relations really like between police and Aboriginal people? Today, Liam Mendes joins us from the red centre, where he’s covering the sorry business for a five-year-old child, the justice process for the man accused of murdering her, and what relations are really like between cops and community in some of our most troubled communities. Listen to the full episode: bit.ly/4nrhC6q

Kumanjayi Little Baby was subject of six child protection reports in six weeks before alleged murder The five-year-old girl allegedly murdered in Alice Springs was the subject of six child protection ­reports since mid-March and was living in a “dangerous environment”, sources familiar with the case have told The Australian. Police made the last notification to the Northern Territory’s Department of Children and ­Families – the government department responsible for child protection – two days before she went missing in Alice Springs on April 25. The report was in relation to an alleged assault on the mother at the Old Timers town camp on April 22. Jefferson Lewis has been charged and appeared in court, ­accused of abducting Kumanjayi Little Baby, as she is now known, from her bed in the late hours of Anzac Day and murdering her. She was reported missing at 1.35am in a frantic call to emergency services. Her body was found five days later. More than a dozen child-­protection reports have been made about Kumanjayi Little Baby since infancy but no ­investigation had been launched as a result of the six most recent ­reports. Police are privately outraged at the inaction from the department in relation to the most recent escalation in reports. Full story: l.taus.au/LCr

RT @australian: Jefferson Lewis was charged after completion of an autopsy report and analysis of DNA evidence found on the five-year-old’s…

RT @australian: Jefferson Lewis has been evacuated to Darwin after police were attacked with rocks as 400 people rioted outside Alice Sprin…

RT @australian: Five-year-old Kumanjayi Little Baby has been found dead, with police accusing fugitive Jefferson Lewis of murder. “Jefferso…

RT @australian: Sharon Granites was sleeping on a mattress surrounded by empty Jim Beam bottles when a criminal drifter allegedly took her…

Peter Noble burst into sarcastic laughter when confronted about serious workplace abuse allegations and his festival’s $10m collapse. Read more: bit.ly/3QudcA8

RT @australian: The shock jock’s enforcer and the best man at his wedding has been charged by NSW police with assault and intimidation. Rea…

RT @australian: Lawyers for murder-accused Ben Roberts-Smith are considering an application to permanently halt proceedings because of conc…

Ben Roberts-Smith’s lawyers consider making a bid to stop his war crimes trial Lawyers for murder-accused Ben Roberts-Smith are considering an application to permanently halt proceedings because of concerns that he may not get a fair trial, as the decorated soldier condemned the “unnecessary spectacle” caused by police arresting him in front of his daughters at Sydney airport. In a statement delivered to reporters on Sunday, Mr Roberts-Smith vowed to fight the five war crime charges brought against him, saying he had been targeted as part of a decade-long “campaign” painting his conduct in ­Afghanistan as improper. The Australian understands that while it could be years before Mr Roberts-Smith faces trial, his legal team, led by criminal solicitor Karen Espiner, is examining the prospect of a permanent stay application because of exceptional media attention on the case. Full story with @EllieDudley_: l.taus.au/S3Q

People have apparently been nominating demerit points to Bondi Beach shooter Naveed Akram while he’s been in custody

Liam Mendes reports from a helicopter above the site where alleged double cop killer Dezi Freeman was shot dead this morning. The shootout erupted at the property about 8.30am Monday. Police say Freeman confronted the officers with a firearm before he was shot dead. It’s believed he was being harboured by a sovereign citizen. Read more: bit.ly/4v06mly

Louise Greene: the publicist, the ‘cancer’ and the trail of destruction Meet Louise Greene, the convicted fraudster who reinvented herself as a high-flying media specialist while faking bowel cancer and damaging rentals. Read here: l.taus.au/JSN