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PM takes a deeper look at the issues raised by the drought, with two people who deal with them on a daily basis.

As debate intensifies around drought policy and the role of financial assistance, some farmers have been quietly taking the matter into their own hands.

PM covers a broad spectrum of issues relevant to all sections of Australia's diverse community.

On Friday's PM: Did you know you can register a company without proving your identity? Criminal syndicates do; the Treasurer slams banks and financial services firms at the release of a scathing Productivity Commission report; and Yazidi communities commemorate the fourth anniversary of the IS attack on Mount Sinjar.

Thousands are gathering in Arnhem Land for the 20th anniversary of the Garma Festival, a cultural celebration and a forum to discuss some of the most pressing issues facing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.

Vanuatu has appealed to Australia to restore short-wave radio services to the Pacific region, after they were switched off by the ABC in 2017, saying the service saves lives.

Australia's Yazidi community today marks four years since IS forces stormed their ancestral homeland of Sinjar in northern Iraq, killing thousands of men and kidnapping thousands of women and girls and selling them into sexual slavery.

An Australian soldier stranded for the best part of a week on a New Zealand mountain has been rescued, days after his emergency locator beacon was first detected.

Open a bank account or apply for a passport and you'll need to prove your identity. But register a company with ASIC and you currently don't need to prove who you are.

Already under pressure from the Royal Commission, banks and financial services firms were dealt a lashing from the Treasurer at the launch of a scathing report from the Productivity Commission.