Looking at the ground speed it doesn't look like a stall.
VH-VPO - Piper PA-28-161 Warrior III [2842142] - Flightradar24
Eyewitnesses/journalists are notoriously unreliable and don't understand what the word means in aviation. Usually about the only correct thing on the article is the date. They've already reported it as a "six seater". At least we should be grateful that nobody is saying that the pilot "voluntarily jettisoned the wings"
There is an F in BUMFH....
People just keep on having the same accident over and over again.