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Geneticists believe more than 100,000 Australians are unaware they have the common genetic condition haemochromatosis which can cause fatal liver diseases and other health problems. They'd like to see the Federal Government fund a national screening program.

French doctors say in a report published in the Annals of Oncology that they have treated an HIV patient with lung cancer with cancer drugs that have reduced a group of dangerous HIV cells in them.

The luxury bag brand Oroton is the latest victim of declining retail sales in Australia. This week the Australian-owned brand put the company into voluntary administration, joining a long list of companies that have collapsed in the past 18 months.

The White House refusing to confirm reports that US President Donald Trump is about to sack his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Relations between the two men have reportedly soured in recent months over key foreign affairs issues.

On today's program: We'll have the fallout from the NSW Deputy Premier's attack on the PM; Fears of a deluge has Victorian farmers moving stock to higher ground and scrambling to harvest crops; And why is a takeaway shop in Hobart full of Afghan specialties?

Tonight on Business PM: Attention is now focusing on whether superannuation should be part of the banking Royal Commission; and manufacturing is far from dead in Australia, with the latest data showing the sector continues to defy predications.

Tonight on Business PM: In a stunning political backflip, the Turnbull Government has caved in to the growing clamour for a banking Royal Commission. Will the Royal Commission lead to higher interest rates and trash confidence in Australia's banking system as the banks have claimed?

A study of penguins around the world has found that 14 of the 18 species are regularly being drowned by fishing gillnets. In Tasmania, one of the authors of the study is calling for recreational gillnetting to be banned.

A new national cervical screening program kicks off today that promises to make it easier to save the lives of women affected by cervical cancer. Women will require fewer tests in their lifetime, with doctors now able to identify those predisposed to the infection.

South Australians born from donated sperm would be able to trace their anonymous donors, without donor consent, under changes being flagged in the state. The move will give donor conceived children the right to information about their genetic parentage, regardless of whether the donor wants his identity revealed.