A quarter of Australian chief executives think business conditions will deteriorate in 2019, according to a survey by the Australian Industry Group.

Miscarriage is a common experience for couples trying to conceive, yet rarely discussed in public. Federal minister Kelly O'Dwyer is being praised for becoming one of the few public figures to speak openly on the subject.

Following Kelly O'Dwyer's announcement that she would be quitting politics ahead of the next election, former Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett has suggested that other federal Liberal MPs consider resigning, too, to make way for fresh talent.

On today's program: Unease among chief executives as the country braces for what could be a bruising federal election campaign; The international community urged to do more to help Syrian refugees return home; And PNG's only radiation machine doesn't work and the consequences for cancer patients are fatal.

The Minister for Women, Kelly O'Dwyer, is the latest female Liberal MP to announce she's quitting politics, not helping the party's efforts to prove it doesn't have a 'woman problem'.

The NT Government has introduced progressive gender laws that grant Transgender and Intersex people the ability to change the sex on their birth certificate without undergoing gender reassignment surgery.

Australia is funding a trial program to use drones to deliver vaccines to children in remote villages in the Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu.

With the British Parliament at loggerheads over Brexit, the prospect the UK could leave the European Union in March without a deal has dramatically increased. The Prime Minister, Theresa May is required to take a new plan back to the Parliament on Monday, but the uncertainty is crippling for businesses on both sides of the Channel.

The spiritual leader of the terrorist group responsible for the 2002 Bali bombings says he's still fighting for Indonesia ahead of his expected release from prison next week.

Democrats in the United States are once again talking about impeachment and suggesting there may have been obstruction of justice. It comes after a media report alleging that President Donald Trump told his former lawyer to lie to Congress.