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- A new, rapid review into domestic violence launched by the federal government.
- An Israeli attack on a Rafah camp draws global condemnation, days after the UN's top court ordered a stop to the offensive.
- The Australian Human Rights Commission terminates a claim against Hawthorn by First Nations former players.
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A rapid inquiry will be held to advise the federal government on how to reduce gender-based violence.
A panel has been assembled, and the first part of its research will be completed by the end of next month.
It will consider all opportunities to intervene and prevent incidents of gender-based violence, including harsher sanctions for perpetrators, and shifting attitudes about the issue quicker.
A spate of recent high-profile cases has put pressure on governments to further address this issue.
In Australia, one in five women, and one in sixteen men have experienced sexual violence since the age of 15.
Women are the most likely to experience harm at the hands of an intimate partner.
The federal government has promised to end violence against women and children in one generation.
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More about a potential treaty between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians in Victoria will be learned today.
The co-chairs of Victoria's First Peoples' Assembly will appear before the state's truth telling hearings today.
One of them, Ruben Berg, says treaty talks with the state government will begin later this year.
So far, he says the talks will focus on transferring decision-making powers to Indigenous people.
He says there needs to be a re-set to give Indigenous people economic opportunities that they have so far been denied, so they can create intergenerational wealth, much like other communities in Australia have been able to.
In particular, he says Indigenous people can be helped by receiving profits from projects on their traditional land.
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More than 2000 people are thought to have been buried alive by a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea's northern Enga province.
The country's National Disaster Centre raised the toll in a letter to the United Nations, after the UN initially put the estimated death toll at more than 670 people on Sunday.
There are fears few survivors will be found, with treacherous terrain and difficulty in getting aid to the site.
The UN's International Organization for Migration Papua New Guinea Chief of Mission Serhan Aktoprak says the updated figure caught them by surprise.
"We were really not expecting that, definitely not hoping at all. On the contrary, we were hoping that the figures that were communicated to us earlier, 670, could be re-visited and could be reduced. But we see the opposite, unfortunately. So that is heartbreaking to begin with. Humanitarian relief efforts are ongoing but we have a lot of operating on the debris which covers an area of approximately three to four football fields."
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At least 45 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on a tent camp for displaced Palestinians in Gaza.
The airstrikes, in the southern city of Rafah, came just two days after the United Nations top court, the International Court of Justice, ordered Israel to end its military offensive there, citing the risk to civilians.
Local health officials say despite a global outcry at the toll on civilians, Israeli tanks continued to bombard eastern and central areas of the city on Monday, killing eight.
Israel's Real Admiral Daniel Hagari says the 'intelligence-based' strike targeted senior Hamas officials.
"Today, Hamas terrorists in Gaza fired eight rockets at central Israel from Rafah, sending millions of Israelis to bomb shelters."
Witness Fadi Dukhan described the events.
"We heard the sound of a missile. We ran and found the street covered in smoke. We went into the house - didn't find anyone - when we checked over the wall we found a girl and a young man, cut into pieces."
Earlier, for the first time in months - rockets were fired towards Israel's second city of Tel Aviv - Hamas' armed wing claiming responsibility.
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In sport,
The Australian Human Rights Commission has terminated a claim against Hawthorn by First Nations former players and their partners after the parties failed to reach an agreement.
The commission has thrown out the case, believing there was little chance the Hawks, former staff and the ex-players could come to an agreement.
The players and their partners now have 60 days to take the matter to the Federal Court.
Hawthorn football club said in a statement they remain committed to resolving the matter fairly and quickly for everyone involved.
