Today's headlines include:

• Parliament has passed legislation to protect employer-funded paid leave for parents experiencing the stillbirth or death of a child. 
• National property prices have risen at their fastest pace in more than two years, according to the latest Cotality data. 
• At least 10 people are dead and hundreds are feared injured after a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck northern Afghanistan. 
• And today’s good news: Two messages in a bottle by WWI soldiers have washed up in Western Australia, more than a century after they were written. 

Hosts: Emma Gillespie and Lucy Tassell
Producer: Emma Gillespie

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