Bishop and priest were injured in alleged terror incident at church in suburb of Wakeley on Monday Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Police have charged a 16-year-old boy alleged to have stabbed a bishop and priest at a western Sydney church with a terrorism offence. On Thursday night, New South Wales police announced the teenager, who had been recovering after undergoing surgery after severing his finger following the attack on Monday night, had been charged ..read more

Media executive’s exit comes as broadcaster faces a number of controversies Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast James Warburton, the chief executive and managing director of Seven West Media, left the company on Thursday, amid a tumultuous period for the broadcaster. The prominent media executive was due to step down before the end of the financial year, according to executive changes first announced late last year. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup ..read more

Australian federal police have arrested the alleged leader of an 'organised crime network'. The ring had plans to import more than 20 tonnes of drugs into Australia, Det Spt Adrian Telfer claimed. Speaking at a press conference in Brisbane, he said the AFP would allege the man was behind a failed drug importation that led to bricks of cocaine washing up on east coast beaches ..read more

Dani Mansour, 19, charged after allegedly filming himself damaging two police vehicles amid anger over stabbing of bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The first person arrested and charged for taking part in the Wakeley riots was granted bail after appearing at Blacktown local court on Thursday. . Dani Mansour, 19, was charged with riot, affray and destroying or damaging property as part of the mob that allegedly attacked police in Wakeley on Monday night. The incident took p ..read more

To the average person, it looks very similar to Meta’s Instagram – with a few differences Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast TikTok quietly launched its Instagram rival, Notes, in Australia and Canada on Thursday, testing out a new app dedicated to still images and text. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup ..read more

Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Sign up for the Afternoon Update here, and start your day with our Morning Mail newsletter. Welcome, readers, to the Afternoon Update. Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel has forgiven his alleged attacker in his first public comments since he was stabbed while delivering a sermon at a church in western Sydney. First Nations boy dies in apparent suicide in WA state careAdvocates for the family say the boy, 10, who cannot be named, took his own life on Friday night, leaving his family “devastated” and triggering a coronial inquiry. Deputy prime minister Richard ..read more

Victorian premier Jacinta Allan among those to give evidence at the Indigenous truth-telling inquiry examining the impacts of colonisation Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Victoria’s treaty and First Peoples minister, Natalie Hutchins, has defended the government’s response to a report calling for an overhaul of the criminal justice and child protection systems at the state’s Yoorrook Justice Commission. The report, by the Indigenous truth-telling commission, recommended creating a standalone Firs ..read more

Disappointment and frustration as parliamentary inquiry into youth justice reform ‘degenerates into a squabble’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Queensland’s only independent state MP, Sandy Bolton, had high hopes last October when she was made chair of a parliamentary committee tasked with coming up with solutions on youth crime. It was the first parliamentary committee to be independently chaired in more than two decades, and Bolton hoped it would stymie the politicisation of the issue by taking ..read more

Former secretary of the home affairs department recommends preparation of a ‘war book’ to allocate roles in the event of conflict Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Australia needs a comprehensive national plan for war – a “war book” – to coordinate civil and military roles and “focus the national mind” on the possibility of future conflict, the former secretary of the home affairs department Mike Pezzullo has said. In a speech to an invitation-only security seminar last week, Pezzullo said Australi ..read more

The US talks of Aukus as ‘binding’ the allies for decades to come, but Richard Marles says Australia must become more ‘self-reliant’ Australia’s defence overhaul has accelerated some projects and cut others and has already prompted a plea from China to abandon a “cold war mentality”. But as the dust settles on a plan to increase overall military spending, the Albanese government has also sent some significant signals on how it sees the future of the Indo-Pacific region – and these aren’t exactly how Australia’s top security ally, the US, might see things ..read more