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Today's inflation figures have come in below forecast but economists are divided over the prospect of a rate rise at the Reserve Bank's August meeting.

Victoria has a new Premier after Jacinta Allan resigned to make way for her deputy Ben Carroll, who immediately announced a Royal Commission into the construction sector.

The Federal Government is declaring the test of the new national emergency alert system a success after millions of mobile phones across the country turned into sirens this afternoon.

The United States has raised the tariff on Australian goods from 10 to 12.5 per cent on the basis the nation is not doing enough to counter modern slavery, a claim the Federal Government rejects.

In his speech to the ALP's 50th National Conference in Adelaide, the Prime Minister has attacked the credibility of One Nation and the Federal Opposition.

Organisations that work with migrants are concerned a new national emergency alert system will not be understood by people who cannot speak English.

In Darwin protesters have gathered outside the Northern Territory Parliament calling for new child protection laws to be rejected. 

The former attorney-general Mark Dreyfus has called for buffer zones to be set up, banning protests around synagogues and Jewish schools.

Telstra executives have admitted that last week's national outage could have been prevented at a Senate inquiry on triple zero service outages today.

One of the biggest strikes in Western Australia's iron ore industry this century is underway at BHP's operations at Port Hedland.