Nearly 100,000 complaints about financial firms have been lodged in the past year, as households come under pressure from rising interest rates and high inflation.

Round Two: the federal government vows to push ahead with its $10 billion housing bill when Parliament reconvenes next week, daring the Greens and the Coalition to oppose it in the Senate for a second time.

Shock in Tasmania, after a doctor was stabbed in a regional hospital while treating a patient.

And special delivery: Australia Post warns people against sending insects by mail, as the demand for tiny pets grows.