Both houses of Parliament return today for the final two weeks of the year, and there's a number of bills and issues MPs need to work through. Here's what you need to know.
Here's what's coming up:
8:00am AEDT: Treasurer Scott Morrison speaks to AM
9:15am AEDT: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull departs Peru after the APEC summit
10:00am AEDT: Both houses of Parliament return for the final fortnight of the year
11:30am AEDT: The election of senators Rod Culleton and Bob Day come under scrutiny at the High Court in Canberra
A leading budget watcher forecasts a Donald Trump presidency will not have a significant impact on Australia's federal budget, saying record-low wage growth is a bigger concern.
Khaled Naanaa, the Madaya nurse who leaked images that shocked the world, is now in Australia and finally able to tell the full story of starvation being used as a weapon of war in Syria.
To suggest everyone who voted for Donald Trump nodded in furious agreement every time he made an insensitive or inflammatory comment misunderstands the depths of despair to which many voters have sunk, Emma Alberici writes.
Scandal-plagued convenience chain 7-Eleven is coming under fresh scrutiny over the underpayment of workers, with covert video showing an employee handing back a sizeable portion of her pay to the store franchisee — known as a "cash back" scam.
More nurses die from deliberate drug overdose than any other health care professionals, according to a landmark new study that experts say raises real concerns about whether enough is being done to monitor health workers for mental health problems and drug use.
Amid a downturn in milk prices and upheaval across the industry, hard-working, dairy-farming families are still eking out an existence, making an essential product in what's increasingly a labour of sheer love.
It has only been 10 days since Parliament last sat, but it has been a packed week and a half. Here's what you need to know before the bells ring this morning.
As many as 25 per cent of patients who are told they have Parkinson's disease actually have other degenerative brain conditions, prompting Australian doctors to investigate more accurate ways to diagnose the illness.
Australian manufacturers are following the US lead in removing some chemicals from antibacterial soaps, over concerns they could be doing more harm than good.
US Vice President-elect Mike Pence says he was not offended by rare and pointed comments made to him by a cast member of Hamilton after he attended the hit Broadway show.
Angela Merkel announces that she wants to run for a fourth term as German chancellor in next year's election, a sign of stability after the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump.
A former Chinese diplomat who sensationally quit his job in 2005 breaks a lengthy silence to warn of a growing number of spies and agents working for Beijing in Australia.
Rescue workers in India are trying to free people trapped in a passenger train after it derailed in northern Uttar Pradesh, killing more than 100 people and injuring about 150.
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