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A 15 year old boy has been stabbed repeatedly outside a high school in Sydney's southwest.
He's reported to be in a serious but stable condition in Liverpool hospital following the attack outside Casula High School this morning.
Acting Liverpool Police Commander Superintendent Robert Toynton says another teenager has been arrested.
"That 16 year old is currently here at Liverpool Police Station and he's assisting us with our inquiries. This is a shocking incident to occur outside a high school, and it's very sad that we've had to respond to an incident like this, this morning."
At least four people including three children have died after a stone slab collapsed onto makeshift tents in central Gaza.
Most of Gaza’s two million Palestinians are still displaced or live in tent camps, where they grapple with poor conditions and overcrowding.
Gaza has been battered by torrential rains over the past few days, which is believed to have contributed to the slab collapse.
Displaced Palestinian man Mohammad Abdelal says people worked frantically to free those who became trapped.
"We ran out and found that a mountain had collapsed onto the displaced people living here. With no equipment available, we began digging with our bare hands. We worked to pull people out, using knives to cut through the blankets that cover them. We managed to rescue a child, then a second, a third, and a pregnant woman, followed by a young man."
Parents of children who have taken their own lives from social media bullying are telling senators their stories today, as an inquiry into the Albanese Government's proposed Digital Duty of Care bill begins.
Communications Minister Anika Wells has defended the government's work on the bill as courageous, saying it would create a better environment for the next generation of Australian children.
But many conservative politicians and groups have labelled the plan as censorship, arguing sweeping powers given to the minister, which have been partially rolled back from when they were first announced, could stop people expressing themselves freely online.
Mia Bannister is the mother of Ollie Hughes who died at the age of 14, and says she rejects those arguments.
"I do not suggest that any single factor caused his death or that this legislation would have prevented it. But his experience exposed how much responsibility we place on children and families to navigate environments they did not design and cannot control. That is why I support a digital duty of care."
A royal commission has begun public hearings in Victoria into alleged corruption on taxpayer-funded construction sites.
Weeks of expected hearings, which coincide with the state election in late November, will investigate the nature and extent of corruption, criminal conduct and serious misconduct on major construction projects in Victoria.
Counsel assisting Chris Young says that evidence received by the commission so far suggested apparently legitimate businesses paid large amounts to people associated with organised crime.
He says it will be "no small task" to rid the construction industry of those alleged links.
"Organised crime has had a hold on parts of the construction industry in Victoria and elsewhere for many years. Earlier inquiries have said so. This commission will investigate particular cases. The commission will have failed Victorians if it does not recommend a system that, if implemented, finally rids the construction industry of the influence of organised crime."
Labor cabinet minister Anne Aly has been hacked after inadvertently opening a scam link on her phone.
A spokeperson for the multicultural affairs minister says Aly received a link from a trusted friend, which resulted in an unauthorised message being sent to her WhatsApp contacts.
The spokesperson says the minister acted quickly to secure her account and report the incident to the relevant authorities.
It follows an incident in March this year with independent MP Zali Steggall, whose WhatsApp account was hacked on both her personal and government-provided devices, in what was suspected to be a part of a broader phishing scheme.
United States President Donald Trump says he was only kidding when he offered the role of White House press secretary to U-F-C President Dana White.
The role of White House press secretary remains empty after former spokesperson Katie Zacharia stepped down after just four days in the job.
The President's social media post caused a stir - especially after it emerged Dana White was travelling to Washington to meet with him.
But Mr Trump now says the post was a just a joke.
"It was it was just a little fun. But Dana is actually coming tomorrow, actually, on other for other reasons. I think he's going to be in Washington. So he's going to come over and see me. That was an example of something where I was kidding. And then people said, you know, that's actually a pretty good idea."
Batter Marnus Labuschagne has been dropped from Australia's Test squad.
Chairman of selectors George Bailey says the out-of-form star won't be considered for the entire four-Test series against New Zealand due to kick off in Perth next month - but that the door remains open for a recall on later tours to India and England.
Labuschagne was at one stage the world's top-ranked batter.
But in the tour of South Africa he logged scores of zero, four, 14, 39, and 37, extending a miserable run of 49 innings without a Test century.
