June 2017 Melbourne attack

The June 2017 Melbourne attack began when Somali-born Yacqub Khayre took a hostage in an apartment building in the Melbourne suburb of Brighton. The attack resulted in the deaths of Khayre and another man. Three police officer were wounded by gunfire.
Attack
On 5 June 2017, Yacqub Khayre booked a room at a serviced apartment and rang an escort agency for a prostitute to come to the room. He took a balaclava and a sawn-off shotgun to the room, took a female hostage, then shot and killed a male clerk who worked at the apartment complex.
Police were called to the apartment in Brighton around 4:00pm after reports of an explosion. Police then attempted to negotiate with the suspect. Despite the fact that ISIS and al-Qaeda are at war, Khayre called Seven news at 5:40pm to claim 'This is for IS, this is for al-Qaeda' while the female hostage was screaming in the background.
During the siege, police from the Special Operations Group arrived in the foyer of the building. Khayre ran towards the SOG officers firing his weapon, injuring three officers, and the police returned fire and killed him. Police then rescued the female hostage and recovered the body of the dead man.
Attacker
Khayre had been acquitted on charges related to the 2009 Holsworthy Barracks terror plot before serving jail time for a 2012 burglary.
Melbourne's Seven News received a phone call from a person believed to be the shooter declaring that he was committing a terror attack for "IS and Al-Qaeda". The ISIL propaganda outlet Amaq declared the gunman was their soldier.
Investigation
Police are determining whether Khayre was deliberately attempting to lure counter-terrorism police to the scene in order to attack them.
Fairfax Media newspaper The Age argues that there are similarities between the attack and instructions in an ISIL terrorist publication a month before encouraging ISIL sympathisers to take hostages with fake online advertisements, then massacre the hostages before police intervene.
Reactions
Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Turnbull stated Australia faced “a growing threat from Islamist terrorism” and that he would push states to reform parole laws, questioning how a person with a history of violence was allowed on parole.

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