Just one day after one of the most dire warnings on human threats to global biodiversity and ecosystems, Scott Morrison has been on the hustings, promising to cut so-called "green tape".

In powerful testimony to the Aged Care Royal Commission, an aged care worker has described the day she was on shift when one resident was murdered by another. She was diagnosed with PTSD following the incident.

Political analyst Ongama Mtimka says the African National Congress is facing its toughest election since 1994, yet it's still expected to win over 50 per cent of the vote today in South Africa's sixth democratic election.

Despite enormous pressure from financial markets, the Reserve Bank held its nerve yesterday, and left the cash rate unchanged at the record low level of 1.5 per cent.

A long-running battle to get Aboriginal politicians speaking their own language on the floor of an Australian Parliament has finally been won today - at least partially.

A UN report has revealed that a shocking 1 million species are at risk of extinction, but some local groups are already working to reverse the trend; the Country Women's Association enters the fray over the Newstart, saying people are struggling; Two Reuters journalists are free after 500 days in a Myanmar prison — but will they be allowed to continue reporting?

A new UN-backed report has confirmed that one million species globally are under threat of extinction — but one ground-breaking project in Sydney's CBD is fighting the trend on a local level.

Australia is a global leader when it comes to extinction, with 29 mammal species — a whopping third of the world's total mammal extinctions in that time — becoming extinct since the arrival of Europeans.

Members of the Country Women's Association say an attempted egging of the Prime Minister at an event in Albury this morning has taken away from their campaign to push the Government to raise increase Newstart allowance.

The battle for marginal seats is intensifying as the federal election campaign approaches its conclusion — and the contest in the electorate of Banks is particularly tight, and interesting.