From the size comparison to the kite, looks like a nankeen kestrel. You do get pale morphs of the Brown Falcon, but they're a lot bigger that kites and kestrels
We have recently needed to update NatureMapr taxonomy to split this species into subspecies (which has automatically updated this to the potentially wrong subspecies). @Liam.m would you consider this sighting to be Melanodryas cucullata picata?
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