TRANSCRIPT:
- More details emerge about the background of the Bondi shooters;
- Donald Trump files a lawsuit against the BBC for their January 6 documentary;
- Just two changes for Australia ahead of the third Ashes test in Adelaide.
More details have emerged about the father and son who carried out the Bondi massacre, as investigations continue into Australia's deadliest mass shooting in three decades.
Australian Federal Police Commissioner Krissy Barrett says early indications point to a terrorist attack inspired by Islamic State, and that the pair had travelled to the Philippines last month, though the purpose of that trip has not yet been established.
New South Wales Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon also says the car they arrived at Bondi in contained a homemade bomb.
"I also confirm that the vehicle, which is registered to the younger male, contained IEDs. But I would also confirm that it contained two homemade ISIS flags. We continue to work through the motive of this tragedy and will continue to do so. I think it's really important that our investigators continue to be given time to do that."
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New footage has emerged of another heroic act at Bondi Beach on Sunday - before the attack even began.
The dashcam footage shows an elderly couple confronting the alleged shooters as they got out of their car at the beach.
The couple have not yet been identified.
They were ultimately shot dead as they tried to wrestle the rifles away from the pair.
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Former Liberal prime minister John Howard has urged the nation to maintain its faith in a tolerant society, as the Coalition brings the issue of immigration back on the agenda after the Bondi shooting.
Former shadow Home Affairs Minister Andrew Hastie has posted to Instagram saying the terror attack shows the need to talk about what he has called Australian values - and perceptions the government has not done enough to combat antisemitism.
While Anthony Albanese has defended his record, saying the government has done plenty, Mr Hastie says he doesn't agree.
And Mr Howard says he doesn't want the PM's push to tighten gun laws to become "a diversion" from his record.
"The general observation I want to make about focus on guns, it's welcome always - provided it's designed to tighten existing laws, to illuminate loopholes - but I do not want this debate, post this horrible event, to be used, the focus on guns, to be used as a pretext to avoid the broader debate about the spread of hatred of Jewish people and antisemitism."
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Authorities have ramped up security at a range of Jewish sites around Australia, in the aftermath of the Bondi shooting attack.
Measures have been ramped up at Adelaide Oval ahead of tomorrow's Test cricket match, and in Victoria, the state government has announced a funding boost for a Jewish community centre in Melbourne.
Premier Jacinta Allan says the $2 million community safety package includes $900,000 to boost security for cultural events and holiday programs this summer.
"We continue to show the strongest possible support for a community that is grieving, for a community that is in pain... And looking at new ways that we can support that safety and security - because the Jewish community absolutely deserve every right to belong in a community that supports them to practice faith and culture every single day."
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US President Donald Trump has filed a defamation lawsuit against the BBC.
He's seeking $US10 billion in damages.
The suit has been filed in Miami federal court, and alleges the UK broadcaster unfairly edited clips of his speech on January 6 in 2021 that preceded the Capitol riots.
He says the UK public broadcaster included one section where he told supporters to march on the Capitol and another where he said to "fight like hell" - but that it omitted a section in which he called for peaceful protest.
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At least seven people have died after a small plane crashed in central Mexico.
The plane was trying to make an emergency landing on a football field when it crashed 50 kilometres west of Mexico City.
The crash has also seen over 130 people evacuated from a local business, after the plane hit the factory's metal roof as it came down.
Authorities say the private plane had taken off from Acapulco on the country's west coast.
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To sport now and in cricket news,
Australia will make just two changes to the team for the third Ashes Test in Adelaide tomorrow.
Captain Pat Cummins and Nathan Lyon are coming in to replace Brendan Doggett and Michael Neser.
It means Australia's top seven remains unchanged as they try to take a 3 nil lead and wrap up the series.
Usman Khawaja has been denied a recall despite overcoming back problems - but Cummins says the door has not been closed on him playing Test cricket again and he's taken it all in stride.
"You know, he's a real team man. He'll do whatever kind of you know the team needs.and you know, it's not only Uzzie. You've got, you know, Beau Webster who's missed out these three tests; Neser coming off a fifer, Doggy playing the first two tests and doing really well; so there's, there's a disappointed, you know, group of players, but they've all been fantastic around the group, they're by buying in. We know we need a squad to win an ashes series, and they've all been brilliant."
