Australia news: Chaos erupts overnight at Alice Springs Hospital as man arrested over death of Kumanjayi Little Baby; Trump floats new plan to reopen Strait of Hormuz

Billions of dollars from the National Disability Insurance Scheme are lost each year to fraud or other “integrity leakage” issues that add up to about 8.3 per cent of its total cost, a parliamentary inquiry has heard.

Losses to scams, errors or other non-compliance are a major threat to the government’s efforts to reduce spending growth in the fast-expanding scheme from more than 10 per cent a year to 2 per cent a year over the next four years.

Given the scheme is forecast to cost $52 billion this financial year, it would translate to about $3.7 billion worth of misused NDIS payments.

Senior National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) official John Dardo, who co-chairs the fraud fusion taskforce set up to tackle misuse of the scheme, told the inquiry on Friday that there was no statistically valid way to measure how much leakage was due to fraud.

Consular officials are on the Greek island of Crete to assist Australians transported there by Israel after being intercepted in international waters.

“We are also continuing to liaise with local authorities in Israel and Greece, including to confirm the detention of any Australians,” a Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade spokesperson said.

“We understand people want to respond to the humanitarian situation in Gaza, but we continue to urge Australians not to join others seeking to break the Israeli naval blockade as they will be putting themselves and others at risk of injury, death, arrest or deportation.”

First Nation’s rap star Baker Boy has postponed a show scheduled for Alice Springs on Saturday night out of “love and respect” for Kumanjayi Little Baby, the five-year-old local girl found dead in the area on Thursday.

A Baker Boy gig in Darwin on Friday night would go ahead, the rapper said on Instagram. Profits from merchandise sales are to be donated to the child’s family.

“My heart goes out to Kumanjayi Little Baby’s family, all the mob in Mparntwe and the wider community,” Baker Boy wrote in his post.

Aboriginal women must be empowered to lead the response to Kumanjayi Little Baby’s death, Greens leader Larissa Waters said, as she criticised past government’s interventions in Indigenous communities.

“Our hearts ache for the family of Kumanjayi Little Baby and their community,” Waters said in a statement. “The pain and grief being felt in Mparntwe-Alice Springs and across the nation for the loss of this little girl is immense, and words cannot express the heartbreak of this loss.”

Waters said the Alice Springs Indigenous community must be given space to grieve, before questions are asked “about how to prevent anything like this happening again”.

Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has told a forum in western Sydney that Australians voting for right-wing parties such as One Nation would ensure Labor stays in power

The Liberals are facing an expected loss at the Farrer byelection next week.

“If the vote sprays, Labor stays,” Taylor said. “I have a task there because we have lost trust with many of our supporters, and I’m the first to say that publicly and to my colleagues, and we have to rebuild that trust.

“You can breach trust very quickly. Rebuilding it takes time, and that’s our job.”