What we learned today, Wednesday 26 July
Thanks for joining us on the Australia news live blog today. That’s where we’ll wrap up our coverage – here are some key developments:
Australia’s inflation rate has extended its retreat, with the headline consumer price index 6.0% for the June quarter, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said.
The minister for sport and aged care, Anika Wells said Daniel Andrews did not warn her of his Commonwealth Games decision.
A man is in a serious but stable condition after being shot outside a home in south-western Sydney.
A man in his 80s has drowned at Bondi beach after suffering a cardiac arrest, Surf Life Saving NSW says.
Indigenous voice ‘a step in the right direction’, former foreign minister Julie Bishop told the National Press Club.
Prime minister Anthony Albanese says he and New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins ‘have not looked at’ a trans-Tasman passport.
The global economy faces a tricky road ahead, federal treasurer Jim Chalmers said, adding that progress has been made in the battle against high inflation but the International Monetary Fund warns it’s still too early to celebrate.
The former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull said he has serious concerns about Sky News’ plans to launch a new channel dedicated to covering the Indigenous voice to parliament referendum 24 hours, seven days a week.
The Productivity Commission says Australian governments have not “grasped the nature and scale of change required to accelerate improvements in life outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people” under the Closing the Gap framework, saying there must be a new “partnership” and more sharing of power in decision-making.
Scores of health professionals will head to Canberra when parliament resumes next month to protest against new gas developments planned in the Northern Territory.
More than 50 of the long-finned pilot whales stranded on a West Australian beach have died, but rescuers are working to return the remaining 46 whales to the water.
Meta was been ordered to pay $20m in fines over the offering of a virtual private network app, Onavo Protect, which was found to collect “an extensive variety of data” about users’ mobile device usage that Meta then used in an anonymised and aggregated form for commercial purposes.
A resident is missing after a fire ripped through a regional Victorian retirement village.
The New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, has again refused to rule out cancelling the $25bn Metro West project.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has taken action against eight telcos, including Telstra, Optus and Vodafone, after they investigated the notifications they provided customers prior to having their services disconnected.
The CFMEU has called for Queensland transport minister Mark Bailey to step aside, after what it says is years of neglect at the state’s biggest public transport project.
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Indigenous man dies in WA prison
AAP is reporting that an Indigenous inmate from a regional West Australian prison has died in hospital after collapsing during an exercise session.
The 34-year-old man died on Monday at Royal Perth hospital, The department of justice said on Wednesday.
He was taking part in a recreation activity at West Kimberley Regional Prison, near Derby, on 15 July when the incident occurred.
Paramedics transported the man to Derby public hospital before the Royal Flying Doctor transferred him to Perth.
The department said family members were able to spend time with the man at the hospital before he died.
Preliminary reports suggest there were no suspicious circumstances.
WA police will provide a report to the state coroner, which is mandatory for all deaths in custody.
A 68-year-old inmate died at the privately run Acacia prison in February and a 29-year-old prisoner died at Albany Regional prison in May last year.
Both were men.
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