There are renewed calls for a national firearm register in the wake of the murder of two police officers in the rural Victorian town of Porepunkah.
The call comes as the search continues for the suspected gunman, identified as local Desi Freeman.
Media reports have suggested he was stripped of his gun licence last year.
But Labor M-P and former Olympic shooter Dan Repacholi has told Channel Nine that a national register is essential.
"We need to make sure we know where our firearms are in this country. This is complex because we gotta get the states and territories all working together because they're the ones that ultimately look after firearms registrations for their states. There've been items in place since what happened in Port Arthur for this to actually happen but it's never happened because states and territories could not get onboard with it."
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Israeli tanks have advanced overnight into a new area on the edge of Gaza City, shelling homes and forcing residents to flee.
Residents have reported that tanks entered the Ebad-Alrahman neighbourhood, wounding several people and driving many deeper into the city as part of what Israel has called a new offensive into Hamas' last stronghold.
Meanwhile, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon has spoken at a security council meeting.
He has voiced regret over Israeli strikes on a southern Gaza hospital that killed 20 people, including journalists and medics.
"You know, we fight Hamas. That's our goal - to eliminate Hamas. We are still looking into the details of that incident, and I'm sure that in the next few days, we will have more information about that. But Prime Minister Netanyahu was very clear. That he said it was a tragedy. We regret it."
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Meanwhile, Australian Senator David Pocock says more must be done to pressure Israel to end its operations in Gaza.
Describing Australia as a middle power, Senator Pocock has said the federal government has a role to play.
"We can't end what is happening there, but we can do far more. We can increase the targeted sanctions to Prime Minister Netanyahu and his Cabinet and we can step up in supporting aid in Gaza, including groups like PANZMA and others who are doing great work there on behalf of Australians."
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The Danish government has summoned America's top diplomat over concerns of a covert influence operation in Greenland.
The US State Department has confirmed the deputy chief of mission in Copenhagen, Mark Stroh, had met with Danish foreign ministry officials.
At least three people connected to U-S President Donald Trump had reportedly been gathering intelligence in Greenland.
The Trump administration has said it wants to acquire the semi-autonomous territory.
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The Pentagon has played down talks between Defence Minister Richard Marles and his U-S counterpart.
A spokesperson says reports of a meeting between them on AUKUS were misleading, and that instead their coming together was a 'happenstance encounter'.
It has now emerged that the Deputy Prime Minister arrived on his diplomatic trip to Washington D-C to learn that no formal meetings had been arranged with the Defence Secretary.
Mr Marles was still able to meet with Vice President J-D Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and was photographed with Mr Hegseth.
But he then cancelled a scheduled press conference in Washington and has now flown back to Australia.
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New figures suggest that nearly one in three people accessing homelessness services in New South Wales are young people under the age of 18.
Analysis from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has found that New South Wales also has the highest number of unaccompanied 12 to 17 year olds accessing homelessness services in the country.
The state recorded more than than twice as many unaccompanied 12 – 17-year-olds than in Victoria.
That state's total number of specialist homelessness services clients far exceeded the total number in New South Wales.
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More than a thousand people are expected to attend one of the country's largest Indigenous language conferences this week.
The five-day event on Larrakia country in Darwin is called PULiima.
That means 'making voice, to speak again' in the Awabakal language.
Gomeroi woman Shiree Johnston has told NITV preserving language remains important.
"If we don't do something really significant soon, we are going to lose a lot of our languages within the next 100 years. So there's people who are tirelessly working at reawakening sleeping languages, there's a number of people now who are reawakening languages from a dictionary of 400 words and they have been able to navigate through this."
I'm Deborah Groarke. This is SBS News in Easy English.
