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In an Australian first, virtual reality is taking cricket fans on a journey like no other, and connecting them with their favourite sporting team. In a seven part series, viewers can experience what it's like to become a professional player with the Adelaide Strikers.

The Queensland Cabinet has dumped the state's controversial lockout laws, despite it being an election promise. Parliament passed the law for 1am lockouts last year, and they were to start next week. The Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education says politicians have been bought off by alcohol industry donations.

Three people are dead and at least 20 are injured after a car ploughed into pedestrians at high speed on a busy city street in central Melbourne this afternoon. One man has been arrested and at this stage police say they aren't looking for anyone else. Police also say the incident, unprecedented in Australian history, is not a terrorist attack, but is related to a stabbing earlier today in the inner southern suburb of Windsor.

Our reporter Tom Nightingale is at the Victoria police headquarters. He says things are solely returning to normal after a car killed and injured pedestrians in central Melbourne today. Earlier, the CBD was brought to a standstill, with cars, pedestrians and trams all stuck as emergency crews dealt with the aftermath of the crash.

The inauguration of Donald Trump has triggered protests across the globe, including weekend marches in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. Protesters are angry at the divisive rhetoric directed towards women since Mr Trump entered the US election race in 2015.

We're just hours away from Donald Trump becoming the 45th US president, and PM understands there's a general feeling of nervousness in the financial markets. Traders say Mr Trump has become the most influential market mover in recent history - more powerful than the last Federal Reserve chairs.

James Packer is making headlines in Israel for all the wrong reasons. In recent weeks, sensational allegations of gifts, influence peddling, and attempts to buy favourable media coverage have emerged, involving Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his close ties with a handful of select billionaires. It's been reported that Mr Packer provided generous flights, gifts and hospitality to the Prime Minister's son, Mariah Carey tickets to the head of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, and that Prime Minister Netanyahu set up an investors' meeting between Mr Packer and a newspaper publisher, in exchange for favourable coverage of his Prime Ministership by that newspaper. PM speaks to Dr Tehilla Altshuler, director of the Center for Democratic Values and Institutions at the Israel Democracy Institute.

International language and training schools are being urged to assist foreign students affected by an alleged financial scam. Police and the Overseas Student Ombudsman are investigating a Brisbane-based international student agency, for allegedly taking money from around 100 students in Latin America, but failing to pay for their tuition enrolments. Some in the industry fear it could damage Australia's reputation as a study destination.

The finest uncut opal in the world will stay in Australia, despite lucrative offers from overseas including Christie's and Sotheby's. The Fire of Australia which weighs almost one kilogram, has been in the Bartram family since being mined in Coober Pedy, 70 years ago. Costing half a million dollars, in mostly federal government funding, the opal has found a new home at the South Australian Museum.

Federal Member of Parliament Bob Katter says he will soon introduce legislation to stop the sale of fake Aboriginal art and crafts. Mr Katter says the laws will set up a certification system to regulate the sale of products in tourist shops and markets. Mr Katter says he's got the support of the Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion.