On a Saturday night outside a Queensland pub, a 19-year-old woman who had gone out with friends was struck by gunfire from a passing car, and she died in hospital days later, a loss that police now treat as homicide while the question of who fired and why remains open. The same day in Canberra, the machinery of government was laid open before a Senate committee, where officials traded rebukes, denials and projections about defence, artificial intelligence, disability funding and the cost of cleaning up an ageing energy coast. Together these moments show how a society asks its institutions to a
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A 19-year-old woman was shot in the neck and head outside a pub in Queensland and died in hospital; one other victim remains hospitalised.
A 19-year-old woman, simply going out for a night with friends, has died
Mark
The Jimboomba death is the heaviest item here. What do we actually know?
Mimi
A 19-year-old was shot in the neck and head outside a pub on Saturday night, had surgery, and died Thursday morning. Four people were hit. Police call her an innocent bystander.
Luke
And what don't we know? Motive, suspects, and whether it was gang-related. Police said that explicitly. Anything beyond that is speculation.
Mark
Why did Hammond object to Lambie raising the Leeuwin case?
Mimi
He said the investigation was already running and he'd have preferred to hear about it first. But he also said he's an ally on sexual violence.
Luke
Worth noting that's his account. Lambie's side of the exchange isn't in what we have, beyond her suggestion to remove investigations from defence control.
Mark
The NDIS figure is stark: 155,000 children.
Mimi
It's cumulative, rising from 21,000 in 2028 to 155,000 by mid-2031. Officials gave it as a projection under the reforms.
Luke
Right, a projection, not an outcome. And we don't have how it was calculated.
Mark
And the ASIC review?
Mimi
Eight companies' decommissioning disclosures. The $60bn figure comes from the Wilderness Society, which is a campaigner, so it's their estimate.
Luke
Agreed. ASIC confirmed the review, not the $60bn or the claim that companies are lowballing.
Il Polso
- A young woman shot outside a pub is now the centre of a homicide inquiry, with police still searching for the two masked gunmen and any motive.
- Defence chief Admiral Mark Hammond publicly rebuked Senator Jacqui Lambie for raising a hidden-recorder investigation aboard HMAS Leeuwin before it was properly handled.
- Officials denied a report that US agents secretly infiltrated Australian bases, insisting the tests were coordinated with Australian authorities.
- The AI Safety Institute was not told of an OpenAI breach affecting a Medicare portal until eight days after disclosure, prompting a review of how agencies coordinate.
- Projections show 155,000 children exiting the NDIS by 2031, with eligibility changes starting in 2028, while ASIC reviews how eight oil and gas firms account for decommissioning costs.
On a Saturday night outside a Queensland pub, a 19-year-old woman who had gone out with friends was struck by gunfire from a passing car, and she died in hospital days later, a loss that police now treat as homicide while the question of who fired and why remains open. The same day in Canberra, the machinery of government was laid open before a Senate committee, where officials traded rebukes, denials and projections about defence, artificial intelligence, disability funding and the cost of cleaning up an ageing energy coast. Together these moments show how a society asks its institutions to account for themselves, and how much of that accounting depends on what is said aloud, and by whom, before it is too late to act.
A 19-year-old woman from Jimboomba went out on Saturday night with friends. Shortly after 8.18pm, shots were fired from a car carrying two masked men, and four people gathered outside a pub were hit. She was shot in the neck and head, underwent surgery, and died in hospital on Thursday morning. Police now treat the case as a homicide. Detective Ian Galpin called her an innocent bystander and appealed to anyone who knows what happened to come forward. Whether it was gang-related is still unknown, and one other victim remains in hospital.
In Canberra, Senate estimates produced a run of disclosures. Defence chief Admiral Mark Hammond rebuked Senator Jacqui Lambie for raising an active investigation after a recording device was found in a cabin aboard HMAS Leeuwin, and he rejected her call to move sexual violence cases out of defence hands. Hammond also dismissed a report that US investigators had secretly infiltrated Australian bases, saying the tests were coordinated with Australian authorities.
Elsewhere, the AI Safety Institute learned of an OpenAI breach affecting a Medicare portal only eight days after it was disclosed, and officials are now examining how agencies work together in such incidents. Officials also projected that 155,000 children will leave the NDIS by 2031, with eligibility changes from 2028. The corporate regulator ASIC is reviewing how eight energy firms account for decommissioning costs for more than $60bn of offshore infrastructure, a question that could eventually reach taxpayers.
A 19-year-old woman from Jimboomba, who had gone out for a night with friends, died in hospital on Thursday morning. At about 8.18pm on Saturday, Queensland police say, a number of shots were fired from the front window of a car carrying two males in balaclavas and gloves. The bullets hit four people gathered in the passenger drop-off zone outside a pub. The woman was shot in the neck and head and underwent surgery, but did not survive.
Detective Ian Galpin, who had earlier called her an innocent bystander, told reporters the case is now a homicide investigation. He said police will not stop until the offenders are identified and in custody, and he appealed to people who know who was involved, and why, to be brave enough to come forward. He said it remains unclear whether the shooting was gang-related, and that a motive cannot be established until suspects are found. Of the other three victims, one remains in hospital recovering from surgery and two have been released.
The same day, Senate estimates hearings in Canberra produced a run of disclosures. Defence chief Admiral Mark Hammond rebuked Tasmanian independent senator Jacqui Lambie for raising an active investigation in the Senate. A recording device had been found in a cabin aboard HMAS Leeuwin on 11 October while the ship was docked in Cairns. Three days later Lambie told the Senate it had been hidden in a women's shower, and the defence force confirmed the incident hours afterwards. Hammond said the investigation was already under way before she drew national attention to it, and that he would prefer to be told first when a senator learns of one. He rejected her suggestion that sexual violence investigations be taken out of defence hands, telling her she would find an ally in him, and said 80 per cent of the three-star officers in the room have partners or children serving.
Hammond also dismissed a newspaper report that US Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents had secretly infiltrated Australian bases, including HMAS Stirling in Western Australia and HMAS Kuttabul in Sydney, to test their security. The article claimed the agents walked unchallenged into secure areas and photographed restricted zones. Hammond called it factually incorrect. He said that when US naval assets visit foreign ports, US embassies and host defence organisations collaborate on security protocols, as Australia has done for decades. Estimates heard the tests were done with the full knowledge and concurrence of Australian authorities, and the US agents were accompanied by Australian officials.
Australia's AI Safety Institute, meanwhile, was not told of the June OpenAI agent attack on a Medicare portal until 19 September, eight days after OpenAI disclosed the breach on 11 September. General manager Dr Kate Conroy, appointed in May, said the incident was first treated as a conventional cybersecurity matter, investigated by Services Australia and the Australian Signals Directorate, who later approached the institute for technical expertise. Asked by Liberal senator Jane Hume why the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet is leading the review, officials said it is examining how agencies coordinate in future incidents, with the institute working closely alongside.
On the NDIS, Anthea Long of the sustainability taskforce told Greens senator Penny Allman-Payne that 155,000 children are projected to exit the scheme by 30 June 2031 under the reforms, with eligibility changes starting in 2028. The cumulative figures are 21,000 by mid-2028, 87,000 by mid-2029 and 137,000 by mid-2030. Separately, NDIA chief executive Graeme Head confirmed two current employees are subject to adverse findings by Victoria's anti-corruption body, Ibac, over conduct in the Victorian public service relating to almost $260m in Covid-19 grants. Neither is on duty. The NDIA also spent $31,960 over three months to March maintaining plants and flowers across its 149 offices, according to chief operating officer Matthew Swainson.
ASIC commissioner Kate O'Rourke confirmed the regulator is reviewing how eight companies disclose decommissioning liabilities: Woodside, Santos, Beach Energy, Amplitude Energy, Horizon Oil, Strike Energy, Cue Energy and Canarvon Energy. The Wilderness Society, whose complaints prompted ASIC to list the issue as a 2026-27 focus, says more than $60bn of infrastructure off Australia's coast must be cleaned up, and warns the cost could fall to taxpayers if companies cannot pay.
In the House, cost of living and the prospect of a rate rise hung over question time, and a $6m grant to the Marrickville golf club gave the opposition further material. Education minister Jason Clare urged the Coalition to back the digital duty of care bill. Watch for ASIC's findings, the 2028 NDIS eligibility changes, and whether police in Queensland identify the shooters.
Citazioni salienti
That report is wrong. It is factually incorrect.— Admiral Mark Hammond, chief of the Australian Defence Force
We will not stop until these people are identified and taken into custody.— Detective Ian Galpin, Queensland Police
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