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The owner of Victoria's Hazelwood power plant, Engie, is defending its decision to close the plant in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, saying it would've cost $400 million to revamp the station. Up to 1000 workers could lose their jobs, and they're being offered redundancy packages of $330,000.

Workers hit by major industrial shut-downs want governments to ensure financial advice is available to those facing unemployment at the Hazelwood power station. The Victorian coal-fired facility will shut by April next year, leaving about 750 employees facing an uncertain future. The Federal and State Governments have committed a combined $85 million to workers and the region. Experts are also calling for infrastructure projects to be accelerated to avoid people falling into unemployment.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull insists there's nothing unusual in the High Court looking at the eligibility of people to sit in parliament and says the Senate is not in chaos, despite being down two votes. But with the Government failing to bring forward its industrial relations legislation to the Senate next week when parliament resumes, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten's accusing Mr Turnbull of losing control of his legislative agenda.

Could the Transport Safety Bureau be turning back on its presumed commitment to extending the search for MH370? Tuesday's disclosure on this program of the emerging plan to ask for $30 million to hunt in a new, more likely crash zone has not been getting support in Government. Relatives of the dead say they're alarmed and confused.

It's the end of an era at the ABC, after the national broadcaster axed the Catalyst program today. All the familiar faces on the Catalyst, along with their producers, were told today that they were redundant. Management says it'll replace the weekly half hour science magazine with 17 one hour documentaries a year to be presented by leading scientists. Two Catalyst programs in recent years came under heavy fire - including from the ABC's own media watch - as alarmist, unprofessional and unbalanced. Emeritus Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney, Simon Chapman, speaks to PM.

World Football's governing body, FIFA, wants to stop British football players from honouring their war dead in an international game. FIFA's general secretary wants to make the point that Britain isn't the only country that suffered as a result of the war. But the Brits are having none of it, and Australia's Returned Services League says it sets a dangerous precedent.

The Chicago Cubs have broken one of the longest droughts in world sport history. They've won their first baseball World Series after 108 years. The Cubs beat the Cleveland Indians 8-7 in extra innings in the seventh game of the World Series played in Cleveland.

The makeup of the Senate is in further doubt tonight. First came the departure of Family First senator Bob Day and a prospective High Court case - now the Attorney General has flagged the possibility of taking the election of WA One Nation senator Rod Culleton to the same court.

The Opposition is continuing to pile pressure on the Government over former senator Bob Day's financial arrangements. The High Court is set to judge his eligibility to sit as a senator over matters which go back to 2013 when he was first elected. Labor's mounting the case that the Government's known for years the senator's financial interests could be in breach of the Constitution.

The Tasmanian Government is allowing logging inside forest that was set aside under a peace deal between environmentalists and the timber industry in 2012. Environment groups are vowing to oppose the plan while it's being welcomed by the Tasmanian Special Timbers Alliance.