The Latest: Turnbull wants changes to parole after shootout
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The latest on the Melbourne siege (all times local):
12:15 p.m.
Australia's prime minister says he will discuss with state leaders changing state laws so that dangerous criminals are not released from prison early on parole.
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Police say the gunman who killed a man and wounded three police officers in a shootout Monday had been paroled in November after being sent to prison for arson and other crimes. Yacqub Khayre also was acquitted of a Sydney terror plot in 2010 and police say the violence he carried out in Melbourne was considered an act of terror.
Prime Minster Malcolm Turnbull told reporters: "There have been too many cases of people on parole committing violent offences of this kind."
Turnbull has a meeting with state leaders on Friday to discuss counterterrorism issues including how to protecting mass public gatherings from attack.
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10:45 a.m.
Police have named the gunman killed in what they says is a Melbourne terror attack as Yacqub Khayre.
The 29-year-old Somali-born refugee was one of two men acquitted by a jury in 2010 of plotting a suicide attack against a Sydney army base. Another three were convicted of conspiring to plot the terrorist attack. Police thwarted that plot before it could be executed.
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Khayre was released from prison on parole in November after serving sentences for arson and violent crimes unrelated to extremism.
8:45 a.m.
Australian police say a shootout in which two men died, three police officers were wounded and a female hostage was freed is being treated as a terror attack.
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Three police were wounded before they shot dead a gunman who killed a man and took a woman hostage on Monday in the Melbourne suburb of Brighton.
Victoria state Police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton said on Tuesday the gunman had been implicated in a thwarted suicide attack at a Sydney army barracks in 2009.
Islamic State movement has claimed responsibility for the violence.