Rescue operations have resumed in northern Thailand tonight, with dive teams aiming to get the remaining eight boys and their soccer coach out of the Tham Luang cave. The four boys who have been rescued so far are in good health, according to the Thai Interior Minister.

Nearly 2 million people in Japan are under evacuation orders in the wake of widespread, record-breaking rains across the country that have caused extensive flooding and landslides and left at least 100 people dead.

Farmers across New South Wales are having to make hard decisions as virtually the entire state is either in drought or experiencing worsening dry conditions.

National Farmers' Federation president Fiona Simson speaks with PM on today's drought round table of farmers' groups, banking and state and federal government representatives.

A contract to build and maintain radio communications for Perth's metropolitan train network has been won by Chinese company Huawei - the same company that security experts want blocked from taking part in Australia's 5G mobile network.

On Monday's PM: the latest from the cave rescue effort in Thailand; farming groups travel to Canberra, urging politicians to respond to worsening drought conditions; and at least 100 people dead in Japan as record-breaking rains cause massive floods and landslides.

Rescue operations are due to resume in northern Thailand tonight, with dive teams aiming to get the remaining eight boys and their soccer coach out of the Tham Luang cave. The four boys who have been rescued so far are in good health, according to the Thai Interior Minister.

Mental health experts say the members of the soccer team in the process of being rescued from a cave in northern Thailand risk trauma, after spending more than two weeks underground.

On Friday's PM: A blow to the rescue effort in Thailand with the death of an experienced diver, now there's a scramble to get an oxygen line to the trapped group; And police have described the shooting murders of two teenagers in a suburban Sydney home, at the hands of their father, as premeditated and planned.

Hackers have infiltrated computers of the Australian National University in Canberra.