This year is set to be the hottest on record, according to the World Meteorological Organisation's preliminary statement on the global climate for 2016. While the year is not over, the remaining weeks of 2016 would have to be the coldest of the 21st century to not set a record
RMIT international political expert Joe Siracusa did not hold back when discussing Donald Trump on Q&A last night. "I doubt Kmart would hire him the way he talks," Professor Siracusa said
Residents in Western Australia are being asked to collect cane toads, which will be turned into a "toad sausage". It's hoped by feeding the sausage to native animals, they will develop an aversion to the taste and smell of the poisonous cane toad.
Here's what's coming up:
7:40am AEDT: British Prime Minister Theresa May delivers her first annual address on foreign policy in London
8:30am AEDT: The NSW Nationals will elect new leaders in the wake of the Orange by-election
9:45am AEDT: The Senate Economic References Committee begins a public hearing into the dairy industry
10:00am AEDT: The fourth day of the second Test between Australia and South Africa begins
6:00pm AEDT: The Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe delivers one of his first major speeches as Governor
An undercover investigation has exposed the exploitation of illegal migrant workers on farms supplying Coles and Woolworths, as a Federal Government adviser calls for reforms to stop the "systemic" abuse of foreign labour.
A Lateline investigation shows the State Government's environmental watchdog has dropped investigations into illegal clearing, after direct political intervention.
An international expert in diplomacy labels Donald Trump 'an appalling human being', but one of his backers says President-elect is not sexist and has shattered the glass ceiling for women as much as Hillary Clinton.
A Supreme Court battle between a beekeeper and Australia's biggest honey producer Capilano over the safety and source of its products is becoming increasingly bitter.
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key flies over the destruction caused by last night's earthquake, as aftershocks kick up dust from the landslides below.
Prosecutors question WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has been holed up for four years, in an investigation into allegations that he committed rape in Sweden in 2010.
Residents in Western Australia's north are being asked to collect as many cane toads as they can to be minced for a mass "toad sausage" delivery as part of a Kimberley conservation project.
"The saddest polar bear in the world", who has been kept on display in a Chinese shopping mall, will be temporarily returned to an ocean park home, a move which animal rights groups are working to make permanent.
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