Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is preparing to announce a $1 billion plan to encourage innovation, including a relaxation of bankruptcy laws and changes to the 457 visa scheme to encourage more highly skilled workers to Australia. The CSIRO is expected to receive a $100 million boost after it lost $110 million in the 2014 budget
Labor will announce a suite of measures to improve union governance today, after the royal commission uncovered widespread misconduct. The measures are expected to include tougher penalties for criminal offences and more protection for whistleblowers
Anti-Islamic State fighter Ashley Dyball is returning home to Brisbane this morning after several hours of questioning by Australian Federal Police in Melbourne last night. Mr Dyball, who fought with a Kurdish militia against IS, was released without charge pending further enquiry
The #BlackLivesMatter hashtag spawned a mass movement that saw black Americans push back against years of neglect, poverty and police brutality. Read this moving feature by Sally Sara ahead of tonight's one-hour Foreign Correspondent documentary
Here's what's coming up:
9.30am AEDT: A three-day conference on domestic violence begins in Canberra
12.00pm AEDT: Barack Obama will make a speech from the oval office
12.30pm AEDT: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will make his innovation statement
8.30pm AEDT: Foreign Correspondent special documentary on #BlackLivesMatter
11.45pm AEDT: The launch of the UN's global humanitarian appeal for 2016 in Geneva
Family and friends say they still don't know if Brisbane man Ashley Dyball — who returned home to Australia last night after fighting against Islamic State in northern Syria — will face prosecution. AFP officers at Melbourne airport released him without charge "pending further inquiry".
An extra $100 million in CSIRO funding and tax breaks for start-up companies will dominate today's $1 billion innovation plan by the Federal Government.
The Children's Rights Commissioner is calling for a national focus on the needs of children affected by domestic violence, saying at least four or five kids in every classroom have experienced or witnessed abuse.
Two children drive 35 kilometres to get help in remote New South Wales after their father inhales gas while working in a well and their mother falls in trying to help him.
Colombia announces it has found the shipwreck of a storied Spanish galleon laden with gold, silver and precious stones, three centuries after it was sunk by the British in the Caribbean.
The family of Stefan Woodward, the young man who died from a suspected drug overdose at the Adelaide Stereosonic music festival on Saturday, pay tribute to a "fun-loving young man whose life had been cut so tragically short".
Federal Labor will today announce a suite of measures aimed at improving union governance, with tougher penalties for criminal offences and more protections for whistleblowers on the cards.
The Federal Government and Opposition settle on the long-awaited Referendum Council to consult on the best prospect of recognising Indigenous Australians in the constitution.
A push to reduce the intensity of India's carbon emissions is conflicting with a pledge to bring uninterrupted electricity to its nearly 1.3 billion citizens.
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