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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will use a speech at the Garma Festival later today to urge Indigenous Australians to help forge a "new path" and reflect on the pain of the failed voice referendum.
At Australia's largest Indigenous gathering, Mr Albanese is expected to announce a First Nations Economic Partnership with the Coalition of Peaks, focusing on economic empowerment for Indigenous people.
For many years the Garma Festival has been a key meeting place not just for two cultures but also for political parties to raise and debate ideas about Indigenous affairs policy.
The CEO of the Yothu Yindi Foundation, Denise Bowden, says it is disappointing that the federal opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has declined to attend the event.
Speaking while on a five-day visit in Western Australia, Mr Dutton, says if elected as Prime Minister, there will be no Makarrata commission on treaty making and truth telling.
"Under a government I lead there will be no Makarrata. There will be no revisiting of truth telling and the $450 million the government wasted on the voice."
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Health authorities in Victoria are expecting more cases of legionnaires' disease following the death of a woman in her 90s.
There are at least 71 cases so far and the majority have needed hospital treatment with some people ending up in intensive care.
The Victorian Department of Health says there are seven additional suspected cases.
The department believes the outbreak started in cooling towers in Melbourne's west.
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A new study suggests unsupportive attitudes towards same-sex relationships in regional Australia is impacting the health of residents in gay or lesbian relationships.
The study, published in the American Journal of Public Health, suggests a link between areas with more opposition to marriage equality and higher rates of chronic health problems.
The study mapped the results of the 2017 marriage equality postal vote against 2021 census data to understand the relationship between regional voting preferences and long-term health conditions.
It found that long-term health conditions were more common among Australians in same-sex relationships in electorates with a higher percentage of 'no' voters.
Lead author and Melbourne University Research Fellow, Karinna Saxby, says this shows a wider issue around harmful attitudes towards sexual minorities in regional areas.
"What I think they're representing is underlying community-level attitudes that are not really changing much over time. And the fact that we still see these very strong relationships, even four years, after marriage equality, suggests to me that these are pretty fixed in these areas unfortunately so there's a lot more work to be done to try to understand whether we can find ways to address these underlying because even though there is that time gap, we see that it's still having a significant impact."
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The new acting chief of the US Secret Service says local police in Pennsylvania should not be held responsible for security failures leading up to the assassination attempt on Donald Trump last month.
Officials say 20-year-old Thomas Crooks fired the shots that wounded Trump's right ear, killed one rally attendee and wounded two others with an AR-15-style rifle, before a law enforcement sniper shot and killed him.
The first shooting of a US president or major party candidate in more than four decades led to the resignation of Kimberly Cheatle as director of the Secret Service.
Mr Rowe earlier this week told Congress that local law enforcement was to blame.
He now says it was a Secret Service failure that the roof line was not better monitored.
"The Secret Service's successes are largely unknown. You will only know of our failures and those have been documented. And all of them are undeniably dark days in our nation's history. But let me tell you about the dedicated patriots of the Secret Service. They are focused. And they live their professional lives committed to the values of this agency: justice, duty, loyalty, courage and honesty. And we will earn back your trust."
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In sports, Kaylee McKeown has claimed her second gold medal at the Paris Olympics in the 200 metres backstroke and Cam McEvoy has collected gold in the 50 metres freestyle.
In other results, Greece defeated the Boomers 77-71 in their lastest group game.
The Boomers have advanced to the quarter finals after Canada defeated Spain 88-85.
And the Australian women's water polo team has defeated Canada 10-7 to secure a place in the quarterfinals.
