Newly released police body camera video shows US officers being fired upon as they arrive at the Louisvillebank where a shooter killed five people and the harrowing minutes while officers confront the shooter and work to rescue a wounded colleague.

Two patrol officers who responded to the shooting were wounded, one of them struck in the head by a bullet in the Monday morning shooting.

Louisville Metro Police Department Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey walked reporters through footage and stills at a news conference on Tuesday.

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One still image from surveillance video showed the shooter holding a gun inside the building, surrounded by broken glass.

Police said he set up an ambush position to attack officers as they arrived.

Officer Corey Galloway’s body camera shows him perched behind a stairway outside the building after rookie Officer Nickolas Wilt was wounded.

He waits and as other officers arrive, more gunshots are heard and Galloway fires then shouts that he thinks the shooter is down.

Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said it was crucial to release the footage because “transparency is important — even more so in a time of crisis”.

But he decried a law that will see the murder weapon auctioned off.

"Under current Kentucky law, the assault rifle that was used to murder five of our neighbours and shoot at rescuing police officers will one day be auctioned off," he said.

"Think about that. That murder weapon will be back on the streets one day, under current Kentucky law."

Police Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel said at a news conference that bank employee Connor Sturgeon, 25, bought the AR-15 assault-style rifle used in the attack at a local dealership on April 4.

Armed with the rifle, Sturgeon killed his co-workers — including a close friend of Kentucky’s governor — while livestreaming the attack before he was killed by police, authorities said.

Another eight people were wounded.

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“We do know this was targeted. He knew those individuals, of course, because he worked there,” Gwinn-Villaroel said, but didn't give an indication of a motive behind the shooting.

Gwinn-Villaroel praised the “heroic actions” of officers who engaged the shooter without hesitation when they arrived.

“They went towards danger in order to save and preserve life,” she said.

“They stopped the threat so other lives could be saved. No hesitation, and they did what they were called do to.”

Wilt, who had graduated from training just 10 days earlier, was still in critical but stable condition Tuesday after being shot in the head, according to University of Louisville Hospital Chief Medical Officer Jason Smith.

Two of the four wounded still in the hospital had injuries that were not life-threatening, Smith said.

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The shooting, the 15th mass killing in the country this year, comes just two weeks after a former student killed three children and three adults at a Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, about 260km to the south.

That state's governor and his wife also had friends killed in that shooting.

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said he lost one of his closest friends in the shooting.

“Tommy Elliott helped me build my law career, helped me become governor, gave me advice on being a good dad," Beshear, his voice shaking with emotion, said.

"He's one of the people I talked to most in the world, and very rarely were we talking about my job. He was an incredible friend.”

Also killed in the shooting were Josh Barrick, Jim Tutt, Juliana Farmer and Deana Eckert, police said.

“There are no words to adequately describe the sadness and devastation that our Old National family is experiencing as we grieve the tragic loss of our team members and pray for the recovery of all those who were injured,” Old National Bank CEO Jim Ryan said in a statement.

Louisville Mayor Craig urged unity as the community processes its grief.

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“We’re all feeling shaken by this, and scared and angry and a lot of other things too. It’s important that we come together as a community to process this tragedy in particular but not just this tragedy because the reality is that we have already lost 40 people to gun violence in Louisville this year,” Greenberg said.

An interfaith vigil will be held Wednesday evening and invited people to come to grieve and pray.

“This vigil will be to acknowledge the wounds, physical and emotional, that gun violence leaves behind,” he said.

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Despite a gun held to the back of a hostage, US special forces made the dramatic decision to fire on his captors.

British actress Millie Bobby Brown has fans thinking she and partner, Jake Bongiovi, are engaged, after the couple posted photos to social media on Tuesday.

The Stranger Things star, 19, took to social media to share a photo of her and Bongiovi embracing – and eagle eyed fans have spotted a rather large ring on her engagement finger.

"I've loved you three summers now, honey, I want 'em all," the actress captioned the image.

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Earlier this year, she referred to Bongiovi, who she has been linked to since 2021, as her "partner for life".

Bongiovi, 20, also shared images on social media around the same time Tuesday, including one of the couple hugging and looking out to sea, captioned "Forever".

Bongiovi is one of Bon Jovi rocker Jon Bon Jovi's four children, who he shares with wife Dorothea Hurley.

Brown has previously confirmed that she met Bongiovi "on Instagram".

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"We were friends for a bit, and then, what can I say?" she told WIRED magazine.

Brown shot to fame for her starring role as the telekinetic Eleven in Stranger Things, which will conclude with season five, according to Netflix.

Since her Stranger Things debut, she has starred alongside Henry Cavill as Sherlock Holmes' sister in Enola Holmes and Enola Holmes 2, and launched her own beauty line.

Last year, she revealed she had enrolled in Purdue University and is attending classes online.

John Olsen, one of Australia's most celebrated artists, who won countless art prizes in a six-decade career constantly exploring and expanding the theme of landscapes, has died at 95.

Tributes to the painter who also applied his expertise to ceramics, tapestry and printmaking poured in after his son, Tim Olsen, revealed his father had died on Tuesday night, surrounded by loved ones and family. 

"Apart from our First Nation artists, he changed the perspective and way that Australians looked at our magnificent landscape," he told the Sydney Morning Herald. 

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"He was a landscape poet to the end and a titan of the Australian art world."

Olsen was born in Newcastle in 1928 and grew to be a legend, winning the Archibald Prize in 2005 and the Wynne Prize for landscape painting and sculpture twice, in 1969 and 1985.

He was awarded an OBE in 1977 for services to the arts and made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2001.

Artists, playwrights and journalists paid tribute to the man who was at various stages described as "Australia's greatest living artist" and the "godfather of Australian art".

"Sad news. I doubt there's any Australian whose eye has not been caught by his work at some point," Hugh Riminton wrote.

Olsen was constantly drawn to images of Australia, with regular explorations of sun, water and Lake Eyre in remote South Australia.

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But he also spent years in Europe in the 1950s and '60s, drawing influence from Tachist artists Antoni Tàpies and Jean Dubuffet and capturing the colours and rhythms of village life.

"Soon after his return to Australia, he painted the exuberant Spanish encounter 1960, which encapsulates a vitality stemming from his experience of Spain combined with the pulsating activity of Sydney's inner-city life," according to a biography of the painter by Art Gallery of NSW.

"The series Journey into the you beaut country, created after his return in the early 1960s, is among his greatest poetical visions of place."

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His work is still revered today and will feature in Sydney's Vivid Festival next month in the animated artwork Lighting of the Sails: Life Enlivened, displayed on the Sydney Opera House.

Asked about his longevity in 2017, Olsen said there was no secret, crediting his "inner drive" to keep going and noting appreciation for the "untidiness" of the outback.

"Once you begin to appreciate that untidiness it becomes very, very beautiful in itself – and unique," he said.

"It's that kind of thing that I was endeavouring to do."

Amid the praise, Olsen received some harsh reviews during his career, including from one English critic who referred to a painting as "a cascade of diarrhoea", but the Sydney artist said negative commentary didn't bother him.

He is survived by his son, Tim, and daughter, Louise, 

In a biography of his father published on the Olsen Gallery website, Tim noted that "death brings new life".

"This work is a celebration of human life and nature," he said, of one collection. 

"Through melancholy there is subsequent rebirth and its reward is truth and substance in joy."

A New South Wales hospital is investigating after a popular koala named Cathie Bravo died.

The male marsupial, who was a local of Lake Cathie for 15 years, was found dead this week.

The Port Macquarie Koala Hospital said the death followed large part of his habitat being cleared for development in August last year.

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"Bravo was well known, and residents were upset to see his habitat removed last August," the hospital said.

"Local extinctions like we're seeing across Port Macquarie disconnects populations, leading to reduced gene flow and decreased koala health across the region.

"Now more than ever, every tree is important to our local koalas."

The cause of the koala's death has not been confirmed.

On average, koalas live for 10 to 12 years in the wild, according to the Queensland government's Department of Environment and Science. Females can continue to breed into their teens and may live as long as 18, while males are thought to have a slightly shorter lifespan.

Koalas were officially named as an endangered species in February last year in NSW, the Australian Capital Territory and in Queensland.

Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley said at the time the species' listing would move from vulnerable to endangered in line with recommendations from the Threatened Species Scientific Committee.

"I am increasing the protection for koalas in NSW, the ACT and Queensland listing them as endangered rather than their previous designation of vulnerable," Ley said.

She explained prolonged drought, followed by the Black Summer bushfires of 2019/2020, and impacts of disease and land clearing over the past 20 years have led to a decline in the population.

More than 60,000 koalas were killed or affected by the Black Summer bushfires, a report found in 2020.

It's estimated nearly one-third of the east coast population were lost in the three years from 2018 to 2021.

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Family and friends of Frankston serial killer Paul Denyer's victims are demanding more information about whether the triple murderer will be released from jail.

Denyer is eligible for parole from today after serving 30 years for the murders of three women in Melbourne in 1993.

The families of the killer's victims claim they have been completely left in the dark.

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Denyer was sentenced to life in prison without parole but the term was later reduced to a non-parole period of 30 years on appeal.

Denyer murdered Natalie Russell, Elizabeth Stevens and mother Deborah Fream in the Frankston area.

Stevens, 18, was murdered by Denyer after she got off a bus on her way home from the library on June 11.

On July 8, Seaford mother Fream, 22, was killed when she was ambushed by Denyer in her car.

A fortnight later, Natalie, 17, was murdered as she walked home from school.

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Natalie's parents, Brian and Carmel Russell, said it was a "frightening" prospect.

"Feels like we are in a tunnel with no ending," Brian said.

"It feels like we have done the wrong thing."

Natalie's best friend, Karen, who asked for her surname to be withheld, has spent the last few years campaigning for the government to change legislation to ensure killers are never eligible for parole.

"What he took from us is huge, absolutely huge, she said.

"(Natalie) was just loved by everybody.

"I think it's time that the government really stepped in and really did something about it because the way that it has been handled has been pretty appalling."

Government minister Mary-Anne Thomas declined to comment today when asked about Denyer's release.

"The workings of the parole board are a matter for them," she said.

"I'm not going to second-guess any of the decisions or speculate on what they might be of the parole board."

The Department of Justice and Community Safety said confidentiality laws prevent them from confirming if a prisoner is being considered for parole or notifying the public when they get it.

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Australians may soon need to carry around a small device in order to access banking and basic services.

A portable digital device, VeroCard can act as a personal digital vault at all times and has been hailed as the future of online security.

Melbourne man Hector Daniel Elbaum, who created mobile wireless EFTPOS in the 1990s, is behind the invention.

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Elbaum said the ultra-secure device will "guarantee that your ID will never be hacked".

"There's no known ways to hack it at the moment," he said.

The device has been in the works for 20 years and is currently being used by defence forces and intelligence agencies.

It works by removing the task of ID verification from the phone, becoming the secure link to all logins and payments.

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Elbaum claimed if cyberattack targets Optus, Medibank and Latitude used them, none would have been hacked.

"It's not just a maybe, it's an absolutely. From protection of ID in the market, nothing gets even close to this," he said.

They want big corporate companies to hand out the devices to employees and sell them direct to the public this year, with a monthly fee of $25.

But some cyberexperts say people just won't go for it.

"We carry a mobile device for a reason, not to carry anything else with it," Monash University cybercrime expert, Professor Nigel Phair, said.

"People don't like friction when it comes to logging on to anything and anything external to the device.

"I just don't think will get traction in society."

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Ongoing war also has implications for New Zealand.

Tenants in a beachside Sydney suburb are taking their case to the New South Wales Civil and Administrative Tribunal after their rent went up by 64 per cent.

The old building with nine apartments is in a prime location overlooking the ocean at Tamarama in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs. 

Harrison Reid says he received a rent increase from $670 a week to $1100 two weeks ago.

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"I thought it might have been a joke, maybe," Reid said. 

"It was immediately anxiety provoking."

Reid said the increase did not include the repairs of things like broken concrete on the outside, broken kitchen shelves and black mould.

The tenants put up with the issues, believing it would keep their rent lower.

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"It took all of about five minutes for everyone to band together and decide we're all going to push back on this," he said.

Owner Denis Sinilov bought the building in 2021 for a reported $15 million and has plans to rebuild.

The property is managed by a Double Bay agency and its director Simon Cohen.

Cohen said in a statement his role was to advise the landlord on whether or not he was receiving rent in line with current market conditions.

"And while such a large increase is not typical, it's often the result of tenants not receiving regular year-on-year increases," Cohen said.

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The tenants said they had not had a rent increase in four years so they were not opposed to one but called the increase "excessive" and "greedy".

Tenants' Union CEO Leo Patterson Ross said it was an extreme example but it was not uncommon.

"We're hearing from a lot of people facing these 30, 40, 50 per cent rent increases," Ross said.

Premier Chris Minns has promised to appoint a rental commissioner but has ruled out capping rent increases.

"Primarily because I think it would have a detrimental effect on supply and in the long run, supply is going to be fundamental to fixing the rental and housing crisis in NSW," Minns said.

The residents of the Tamarama apartment block are taking their case to the tribunal tomorrow.

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