Afternoon Update: Sofronoff pulls out of event; Melbourne’s mystery ‘meteor’; and the brilliance of a Matildas star

Walter Sofronoff, who headed the ACT inquiry into the handling of the Bruce Lehrmann prosecution. Photograph: Jono Searle/AAP

Good afternoon. Walter Sofronoff, the head of the ACT inquiry into the handling of the Bruce Lehrmann prosecution, has pulled out of a Queensland Media Club event at which he was to discuss the “presumption of innocence”.

Sofronoff, who was criticised by the ACT chief minister, Andrew Barr, for handing his report to a columnist from the Australian before the government, was to have appeared at an event on 25 August hosted by Hedley Thomas, the newspaper’s national chief correspondent.