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The Federal Government has announced an inquiry into the nation's staggering rates of Indigenous imprisonment. More than one in four prisoners in Australia is Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. The Australian Law Reform Commission will examine factors leading to the high incarceration rates and possible improvements to the justice system. Indigenous groups have welcomed the renewed focus, saying the situation is at crisis point. Labor says solutions are already available and another inquiry is not needed.

Two days after the Dreamworld amusement park ride disaster the parent company has held a sombre shareholders meeting in Sydney. Company executives offered condolences and said they were grieving too.

First Johnny Depp's dogs Pistol and Boo caused a stir sneaking past customs - now Ted and Patch are the latest pooches running foul. They're the dogs of Victoria's Corrections Minister, Steve Herbert, who's been caught using his taxpayer-funded chauffeur to ferry his furry friends between his city and country houses.

Traditional owners in Western Australia say they're worried that the collapse of Pluton Resources could trigger a significant environmental incident in the Kimberley. With the pumps that once kept it dry turned off, Pluton's Cockatoo Island iron ore pit is now filling with sea water.

A warplane is being blamed for an airstrike in Syria's rebel held Idlib province that killed 26 people including 15 school children. The attack comes amid fears Russia is about to ramp up its military action in Syria, with a flotilla of Russian warships heads towards the Middle East. Spain is refusing a request to refuel the Russian battle ships in protest.

French authorities say the migrant camp in Calais, that's become known as the Jungle, is now closed. Just over 5,000 people have been relocated to other parts of France, but aid agencies are concerned about the whereabouts of some of the unaccompanied minors who were living in the camps.

Donald Trump biographer Michael D'Antonio says he is 'deeply worried' about the anger that may erupt from Trump supporters if the candidate fails to win the US election. His book 'Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success' is based on hours of interviews with the Republican presidential candidate in 2014, the tapes of which were released last week. He told The World Today that despite his gaffes, Trump's resentment of the intellectual elite resonates with disenfranchised working class Americans.

More than 150 women are said to have been killed at the hands of their partners in Indonesia so far this year, other the government does not actually make an official record. The statistics available show that last year 317,000 women were subjected to violence from a male known to them. But in an archipelago of 250 million people the figures are often unhelpful.

The Federal Government's announced $2.5 million of the $190 million in National Health and Medical Research Council health grants given out today will go towards the establishment of a Centre for Research Excellence in Indigenous Health at Sydney University. Researchers say the centre will aim to end piecemeal approaches to addressing alcohol abuse in Indigenous communities. The centre will focus on building evidence on alcohol-related problems in Indigenous communities, which is scant despite Aboriginal people being five times as likely as non-Aboriginal people to die of an alcohol-related condition.

The rate of sexually transmitted infections has been rising sharply over the past decade. Now a study from Monash University has found Indigenous Australians, the poor and those living in remote areas are worst affected by rates of the illnesses. The study looked at two decades of data and found those groups were also more vulnerable to all types of infectious disease.