Australia is not on track to meet its Paris climate change commitments according to a leaked report into the country's electricity market
Pacific countries are on tsunami watch after a magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck around 70 kilometres south-west of the Solomon Islands
Many people with disabilities are still working for less than $3 an hour almost four years after Australia's High Court ruled they were being underpaid at Government-supported workshops
Exquisitely preserved bones and feathers from the tip of a dinosaur tail have been discovered in a unique place. A piece of 99-million-year-old amber was found by a palaeontologist hunting for fossils in a Myanmar market. It's the first skeletal remains of a dinosaur ever found preserved in amber.
Here's what's coming up:
7:30am AEDT: Insiders host Barrie Cassidy will be on News Breakfast
8:00am AEDT: SA Premier Jay Weatherill will be on Radio National ahead of the COAG meeting in Canberra
9:30am AEDT: Business SA will release results of a survey about the impact of September's state-wide blackout
11:00am AEDT: The Australian Tax Office will release its data on corporate tax transparency for about 1,900 companies
A leaked report into the country's electricity market says Australia is not on track to meet the Paris climate change commitments and that investment in the sector has stalled because there is no long-term Government policy to reduce carbon emissions.
Exquisitely preserved bones and feathers from a baby dinosaur's tail have been discovered in a piece of 99-million-year-old amber, found by a palaeontologist hunting for fossils in a South East Asian market.
The Syrian regime and the Russian Government ignore calls for urgent humanitarian evacuations from Aleppo, as terrified civilians trapped inside the city send out desperate calls for help.
Many people with disabilities are still working for less than $3 an hour almost four years after Australia's High Court ruled they were being underpaid at Government-supported workshops.
US President-elect Donald Trump is set to nominate Scott Pruitt, a critic of federal environmental regulation, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, a choice that has enraged conservationists and cheered the oil industry.
The owner of some of Australia's most famous food brands is linked to deforestation in Indonesia after new footage emerges of land clearing in North Sumatra.
The rift within One Nation grows increasingly public with party leader Pauline Hanson criticising Rod Culleton's lack of experience and calling for him to listen to her and other party senators.
Graham Jordan is rescued by fishermen taking a closer look at what they initially thought was debris in the water off Port Kennedy, with his survival put down to his "mile a day" swim regime.
Time magazine denies its Person of the Year cover intentionally gave US President-elect Donald Trump " cat, bat or devil horns", after it causes a stir online.
A woman is charged with selling toxic moonshine that was found by the NSW coroner to have contributed to three deaths in the remote Indigenous community of Collarenebri.
More than 11,000 people are left homeless in the Indonesian province of Aceh by this week's magnitude-6.5 earthquake, which killed at least 102 people and injured hundreds more.
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