Three years after former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins was allegedly raped in a federal minister’s office inside Parliament House, she has returned to the capital to testify against her alleged attacker.

NSW Veterans Minister David Elliott is appealing to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to reverse the “utter madness” of a government plan to bring the wives and children of ISIS fighters back to Sydney.

Tennis star Nick Kyrgios will attempt to have a charge of ­assaulting his former girlfriend Chiara Passari dismissed on mental health grounds.

Economists are hopeful interest rate rises are slowing down after the Reserve Bank increased rates for the sixth month in succession, but by a smaller than expected 0.25 of a percentage point.

 

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