Monday's news in 5 minutes.

1. New details about the mother-of-two and partner shot by police at Melbourne swingers party.

New information about the Melbourne couple shot by police while attending a Saints and Sinners themed sex party in Melbourne over the weekend has emerged.

Zita Sukys, 37, and her partner, 35-year-old Dale Ewins were attending the themed party at Inflation nightclub on King Street as a couple on Friday night, dressed as the well known comic book and film characters, Harley Quinn and The Joker.

As part of his costume, Ewins was carrying and posing for photos with a toy gun. A photograph obtained by 7 News shows the couple in costume playing with an imitation gun, however police will not confirm that the gun they were allegedly threatened by was a fake.

According to multiple reports, trouble began when an ex-girlfriend of Ewins - who was also at the club  - phoned police to report Ewins was carrying a weapon.

Channel 7 reports that upon attending the scene, club staff reassured police that the weapon was a fake, but shortly after 3am, both Ewins and Sukys were shot. The pair were reportedly in a "compromising position" at the time.

Both Sukys, a mother-of-two, and Ewins, a father-of-one, are in hospital and understood to be in a stable condition.

Police allegedly seized the mobile phones of Sukys and Ewins.

Sukys' father claims he learned of the shooting via a family friend and as yet, has had no contact with police.

Speaking to reporters on Sunday evening,  Victoria Police Superintendent Philip Green said, "The Inflation incident will be, or is, and will remain subject to a full formal investigation and report and that will take its course."

2. Cardinal George Pell lands in Australia to face sexual abuse charges later this month.

Cardinal George Pell has returned to Australia to face historical sexual abuse charges in Melbourne at the end of the month, AAP reports.

The 76-year-old was pictured early on Monday morning leaving Sydney Airport after flying in from the Vatican via Singapore.

Victoria Police on June 30 charged the cardinal, a former Melbourne and Sydney archbishop and Ballarat priest, with multiple sex offences.

Australia's most senior Catholic insists he is innocent and is looking forward to fighting the charges in court.

The cardinal, a top adviser to Pope Francis, has taken a leave of absence as the Vatican's financial chief to fight the charges.

He told reporters in Rome in June that the laying of charges had strengthened his resolve to prove his innocence.

"There has been relentless character assassination," he told reporters in Rome after the charges were laid.

"I'm looking forward, finally, to having my day in court.

"I'm innocent of these charges. They are false. The whole idea of sexual abuse is abhorrent to me."

3. Prisoner shares video from inside Sydney jail cell, wielding knife and drugs.

A man claiming to be an inmate at Sydney's Parklea Correctional Centre has labelled the prison a "dead set joke" in a video showing him wielding a knife and a substance he claims is the drug ice.

Corrective Services officials are investigating a "very serious breach of security" after the video - shot on a phone by a man claiming to be inside the jail - was published in June, AAP reports.

From behind the lens, the inmate shows a knife to the camera along with an improvised weapon dubbed a "slasher". He claims he is filming on a phone smuggled in by guards.

"Why have I got a mobile phone? It's because screws bring mobile phones into jail for money," the man says.

Investigations were continuing but searches carried out on Saturday had already uncovered four mobile phones, steroid tablets and several other contraband items, a Corrective Services NSW spokeswoman said on Sunday.

Meetings would be held between Corrective Services and private operator GEO Group on Monday to discuss security and safety concerns, she said.

"Inmates go to extraordinary lengths to introduce contraband ... Any suggestions that contraband is introduced by staff are immediately investigated," she said.

In the video the man uses the "slasher" to cut the wall of his cell as an example of "what it can do to your throat" and says the jail is ruining lives.

"It is killing the young people, the young generation of this place is dead set terrorising," he said.

4. Sickening crash ends Australian cyclist Richie Porte's Tour de France dream.

Australian Richie Porte is out of the Tour de France after he crashed heavily during a high-speed descent during the ninth stage on Sunday, fracturing his right clavicle and pelvis.

Colombian Rigoberto Uran of Cannondale-Drapac won the 181.5-km trek from Nantua to Chambery, which claimed BMC's general classification hopeful Porte and Team Sky's Geraint Thomas.

One of the pre-race favourites, Porte was in a group of seven riders, including race leader Chris Froome, and came off his bike at a speed of 70km/h on the descent of Mont du Chat -- the last of seven categorised climbs on a brutal stage.

The Australian is reported to have braked to avoid the wheel of another rider and subsequently missed a downhill left-hand bend, leaving the tarmac, cartwheeling across the road and bowling over another rider, Dan Martin, before hitting a grassy bank, AAP reports.

He was immediately treated on the side of the road before being carried into an ambulance on a stretcher and taken to hospital for examination.

Team doctor Max Testa said Porte had suffered a broken collarbone and a fractured pelvis.

"Normally, a fractured clavicle and pelvis would require four to six weeks' recovery, providing there are no complications," BMC team doctor Max Testa said.

"If everything goes to plan, Richie could be back on the bike at the beginning of August and slowly build his fitness up from there.

"Based on Richie's recovery, we will re-evaluate his program for the rest of the season in consultation with BMC Racing Team management."

5. Bill Shorten is gaining ground on Malcolm Turnbull as preferred prime minister.

Malcolm Turnbull has lost ground to Bill Shorten as the nation's preferred prime minister, according to the latest Newspoll data.

Mr Shorten has gained eight percentage points on Mr Turnbull after weeks of Liberal party infighting but Mr Turnbull remains the preferred prime minister, AAP reports.

Mr Turnbull was named by 41 per cent of voters over the opposition leader, who received 33 per cent of the support.

The poll also shows Labor leading the Coalition by 53 to 47 per cent on a two-party preferred basis.

The Coalition's primary vote has slipped from 36 to 35 per cent since the last Newspoll three weeks ago, taking it back to the level seen in early 2015 when Tony Abbott faced an "empty chair" spill against his leadership.

Mr Abbott has recently campaigned for change, seemingly destabilising the Liberal party in the eyes of voters.

At least one government backbencher, former Abbott backer Michelle Landry, is urging the former prime minister to move on.

"There's been talk about the job offer in London. There's life after politics. He's got a lot of knowledge. He has a lot to offer," she told the Courier Mail.

Ms Landry only narrowly retained her seat of Capricornia, based on Rockhampton, at last year's election and later described the Turnbull government as wishy-washy.

6. Man faces court after a father-of-two was murdered on his way home in Perth.

A man has faced a Perth court charged with murdering 27-year-old father-of-two Axel Boreski over the weekend.

Mr Boreski managed to call himself an ambulance after he was attacked while walking home alone after a night out with friends in Mandurah, south of Perth.

Paramedics arrived to find him suffering extensive injuries on Leighton Road at Halls Head about 5am on Saturday and rushed him to hospital but he later died, AAP reports.

Michael Patrick Walker, 22, appeared in Perth Magistrates Court on Sunday.

He was remanded in custody to appear in Stirling Gardens Magistrates Court on July 26.

Tributes have flowed from Mr Boreski's family.

His partner Lashana Poulter said he was a loving father "who would do anything to help others ... give the shirt off his back".

"So 24 hours ago I received a phone call saying Axel had been stabbed ... and an hour later got told he was dead ... how do I even process that information??" she wrote on social media.

"Please everybody make sure your loved ones know how much you care for them ... I would do anything at all to hold him again and tell him how much I love him."

His mother Adele Lee posted: "My son Axel Boreski was stabbed in the heart this morning he is dead ... Axel we are all going to miss you so much our hearts are broken we love you my boy. XXXX".

Mr Boreski was working for a building company installing the NBN but intending to study at TAFE to become an illustrator.

A GoFundMe page titled "Please help Lay Axel To Rest xxx" had raised more than $4,000 by Sunday night.

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