In breaking news, a police operation is underway in western Sydney. The ABC understands it is taking place in the same street as raids in October after the Parramatta police shooting.
Channel Nine has released a transcript of the 60 Minutes interview with Mal Brough in which he appeared to admit asking for Peter Slipper's diary. The AFP is investigating Mr Brough for any role he played in former staffer James Ashby obtaining the diary.
A poll of parents has found excess screen time, obesity and lack of exercise are their top concerns for their children's health. The poll's director has said those worries are replacing traditional issues such as allergies and accidents.
Here's what's coming up today:
7.35am AEDT: Shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus will appear on Radio National's breakfast program
8.05am AEDT: Fortescue mining boss Andrew Forrest will appear on Radio National
9.00am AEDT: A bill containing more changes to family tax benefit payments will be introduced to Parliament from this time
9.00am AEDT: Two NSW greyhound trainers will be sentenced on animal cruelty charges related to live-baiting
11.30am AEDT: The latest gross domestic product figures will be released by the bureau of statistics
11.30am AEDT: The program for the Adelaide Fringe Festival will be launched
12.00pm AEDT: The Australian Child Health poll results will be released in Melbourne
2.00pm AEDT: Question Time will begin in the House of Representatives
Pressure builds on Special Minister of State Mal Brough to stand aside over his involvement in the Peter Slipper affair, after 60 Minutes releases the full vision of a key interview about the Slipper diaries affair.
The US says it will deploy a new special force in Iraq to conduct raids, free hostages, capture IS leaders and carry out "unilateral operations" in Syria, but has offered few details on the new expeditionary group.
Australia's largest apartment developer is under scrutiny from Australian Competition and Consumer Commission investigators over allegations staff are manipulating its TripAdvisor rankings.
The mother of a woman who was brutally murdered by her ex-boyfriend says it was a "disgrace" for the Navy to honour her daughter's killer with a military funeral.
Nick Xenophon and the Greens say the Federal Government's proposed changes to citizenship laws will not stop radicalised Australians committing acts of terrorism.
Former prime minister Tony Abbott accuses Foreign Minister Julie Bishop of lying in a recent comment about the lead-up to February's failed leadership spill.
The case of two missing Australian surfers has shocked and saddened even those hardened to the realities of Mexico's drug war. But as Michael Vincent reflects, details on the case are few and far between.
The Victorian Government will spend $4.4 million on upgrading public toilets at the Twelve Apostles, one of the state's most iconic tourist attractions, after several sewage leaks.
Museum curators catalogue items left behind on a small fishing boat that shocked authorities when it arrived undetected off Western Australia's coast in 2013 loaded with Sri Lankan asylum seekers.
Drug experts who pioneered festival drug testing back calls to make the service available at events following the death of 25-year-old Sylvia Choi after taking drugs at Stereosonic in Sydney last weekend.
Writer Clementine Ford says she has received a "deluge" of offensive comments after a man who left an abusive comment on one of her Facebook posts was fired from his job with a hotel chain.
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