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Care of Indigenous children to be scrutinised at national summit · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Shocking failings in the care of
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  Speaker 1: Indigenous children will be explored at a national roundtable of
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  Speaker 1: ministers and First Nations leaders in Perth. After days of stalling,
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  Speaker 1: Federal Indigenous Australians Minister Mulindiri McCarthy announced the roundtable for
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  Speaker 1: next Friday. It comes after the Australian revealed the murders
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  Speaker 1: of three Aboriginal children at the hands of their mother
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  Speaker 1: in Port Hedland, despite their grandmother's repeated pleas for their
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  Speaker 1: safety and the plight of kids living in squalid conditions
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  Speaker 1: unsupervised in the suburbs of the resource-rich Pilbara town. The
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  Speaker 1: murdered children's grandmother, Dorothy Papertorque, is begging the state government
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  Speaker 1: for a coronial inquest into their deaths. The Australian also
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  Speaker 1: today revealed government workers took a four-year-old boy from the
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  Speaker 1: only stable home he'd ever known with his grandparents and
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  Speaker 1: returned him to his ice-addicted mother. The family court eventually
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  Speaker 1: handed the boy back to the grandparents, but elders and
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  Speaker 1: child protection workers say the case shows the state's systems
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  Speaker 1: favour reunification of Aboriginal children with their parents as more
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  Speaker 1: of a priority than the children's safety. Reserve Bank Governor
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  Speaker 1: Michelle Bullock says further rate hikes could be on the way.
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  Speaker 1: Bullock told a parliamentary committee meeting oil and energy price
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  Speaker 1: spikes caused by the Middle East conflict could force the
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  Speaker 1: RBA to bump rates up to get inflation under control.
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  Speaker 2: We're not alone in being concerned about this. Central banks
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  Speaker 2: in many other advanced economies are responding to this global
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  Speaker 2: inflation shock by increasing their policy rates or signalling they
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  Speaker 2: will do so if needed.
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  Speaker 1: All four major banks have tipped a cash rate increase
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  Speaker 1: of 25 basis points by the end of the year.
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  Speaker 1: Smart gates at Australia's biggest international airports were on the
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  Speaker 1: fritz for more than half a day, leaving the Australian
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  Speaker 1: border force to manually check the passports of thousands of travellers.
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  Speaker 1: The ABF said the electronic screening gates at Sydney, Brisbane
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  Speaker 1: and Melbourne international airports were affected by a technical glitch
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  Speaker 1: late on Thursday. A spokesperson says the issue's now been resolved,
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  Speaker 1: but they don't know what caused it. Check out those
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  Speaker 1: stories live right now at theaustralian.com.au. And come back to
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  Speaker 1: the front first thing in the morning for our look
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  Speaker 1: at how Ed Sheeran's tour became collateral damage in the
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  Speaker 1: growing anti-Semitism crisis. That's right here, Saturday morning.