'Urgent' probe of WA girl's hospital death.

Questions have been raised about whether staff shortages contributed to the death of a young girl forced to wait for care at a Perth hospital.

Seven-year-old Aishwarya Aswath died at Perth Children's Hospital on Saturday after spending two hours waiting for treatment in the emergency department.

She had been rushed to hospital with a fever.

Aishwarya's parents toldNine Newsthey had pleaded for their daughter to be seen by doctors after her eyes became cloudy and her hands turned cold.

Aishwarya Aswath’s parents will be forced to wait at least a month before finding out whether Perth Children’s Hospital could have done more to save their little girl. 🔒 https://t.co/YCHRVPwONu pic.twitter.com/G0hCsMP1cv

— The West Australian (@westaustralian)

She died soon after she was finally seen.

"I went to the reception maybe four or five times and I asked them to have a look at her," Aishwarya's mother Prasitha Sasidharan toldNine News.

"They were actually neglecting us. We pleaded with them to have a look. They didn't think it was an emergency."

The circumstances surrounding Aishwarya's death will be the subject of an internal investigation by the Child and Adolescent Health Service which is expected to take four to six weeks.

CAHS chair Debbie Karasinski has revealed four doctors in the hospital's emergency department were off sick that night.

Aishwarya was triaged as a category four patient, the second-lowest urgency.

Neighbours' set 'rife' with racism, says guest actor.

A guest actor on Australia's longest-running TV dramaNeighbourshas claimed a racist culture is running "rife" on set.

Wentworthstar Shareena Clanton says her six-week stint on Ramsay Street in a guest role was marred by "multiple racist traumas" which have required ongoing counselling.

"It's been lonely, triggering and traumatising to work in such a culturally unsafe space," she wrote on Instagram, adding she would never work for theNetwork Tenshow again.

Within the social media post, the 30-year-old Perth-born actor listed multiple allegations of racist and inappropriate behaviour by seniorNeighboursstaff and fellow cast members.

Ms Clanton says she fired her agent when he described a senior staff member's alleged use of the term "slave driver" - in reference to him working hard - as "office banter".

She also claims the set was "rife" with covert levels of racism, citing a white actress openly calling another actress of colour a "lil' monkey" as an alleged example.

Ms Clanton says she heard a highly racial slur uttered twice on set and in the green room, and was told to "go somewhere else" when she confronted the actor directly.

Other claims included Ms Clanton paying out of her own pocket to have a Wurundjeri Elder on set for "cultural safety reasons", and a department head laughing when a cast member used a highly sexualised term.

Ardern starts tourism pitch to Australians.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will begin a billion-dollar sales pitch to Australians on Wednesday, hoping for a big flow of visitors once the trans-Tasman bubble opens.

On Tuesday, Ms Ardern announced quarantine-free flights for Australians would be allowed from April 19.

Her government's decision brings New Zealand into line with Australia's border settings, and means people can flow freely between the two countries for the first time since the onset of COVID-19.

Ms Ardern posted a video on Instagram on Tuesday night, inviting expats home and Australians to visit.

"If you are in Australia - you might be a Kiwi over there, or you may have whānau or friends here, or you may just wish to visit us - come on over!" she said cheerily.

"Come and see us. New Zealand is a beautiful country and one of the things we miss the most is our ability to share it with you.

"We'd love to see you."

Aussie tourists have always contributed the lion's share of visitors to New Zealand.

More than 1.5 million Australians travelled to Aotearoa in 2019, the last year uninterrupted by COVID-19, spending a collective $NZ 2.74 billion ($A 2.5 billion), representing more than a quarter of NZ's total international tourist take.

PM convenes first women's cabinet meeting.

Scott Morrison brought together senior colleagues on Tuesday at the first meeting of the new cabinet women's task force.

Minister for Women Marise Payne, who co-chaired the inaugural meeting in Canberra, said the group's priority would be responding to the Respect at Work report.

We had a valuable 1st meeting today of the new Cabinet Women’s Taskforce which is vital as we coordinate & accelerate our efforts & deliver for Australian women. It is also a chance to identify gaps & make decisions on how best to fill those gaps to make a real & lasting impact. pic.twitter.com/10WqTiQOOB

— Marise Payne (@MarisePayne)

The report was completed more than a year ago by Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins as Australia lagged behind other countries in preventing workplace harassment.

Senator Payne said the task force would also help women thrive in the budget process.

The prime minister said the women brought "the right experience, the right lens, the right focus, the right priorities and importantly the right values".

Qld rape-accused released on bail.

A man accused of drugging and raping three teenage girls in Brisbane last year is "lucky" to be released from behind bars, a court has been told.

The 21-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was granted bail when he appeared in a Brisbane court on Tuesday.

The apprentice mechanic, two men aged 24 and 20, and a 16-year-old boy were arrested on Thursday over the alleged offences committed on December 19.

It will be alleged the four invited three girls to a party in a Toowong unit, where they were drugged and sexually assaulted multiple times, police said last week.

Two of the girls consumed alcohol and cannabis, while the third had only alcohol, the court heard.

Few details of the alleged offences were heard in court on Tuesday, but it is alleged one girl was repeatedly raped after passing out and another was described as being "woozy".

The crux of the evidence against the 21-year-old is that his DNA was allegedly found on the inside of a condom, while the DNA of one girl was on th