A COVID alert prompts new travel rules in Israel and the U-K, but Australia insists it's well prepared for the variant from South Africa.

Australian forces on the ground in the Solomon Islands, we'll hear why the violent unrest is about more than just the nation's changing allegiance from Taiwan to China.

One week since his emotional apology for a lewd messaging scandal, former Australian cricket captain Tim Paine calls time on his career, is it a fair price to pay?

The Prime Minister cites "cancel culture" as one reason his religious discrimination law is needed, we'll look at that argument and the pain this debate is reviving for some who felt targeted during the gay marriage vote.

More defiance in Liberal ranks in parliament, as support for a federal corruption commission attracts a majority of votes, though no debate in the lower house.

And a new COVID variant first detected in Botswana raises concern about vaccine effectiveness, but it’s not yet time to panic.

From the most devout believers, to the avowedly secular, there's a lot of reaction to the Prime Minister's contentious religious freedom bill now out in public, we'll look at who it protects, whether any protections are lost, and just what constitutes a religion?

Two additions to Australia's list of terrorist organisations, we'll look at the risk posed by Hezbollah and neo-Nazi group – The Base. 

And hopes fewer people will die from severe allergic reactions, as a national standard for the treatment of anaphylaxis is released.

A watered-down religious discrimination bill headed to parliament after a years-long process. But still some within the Morrison government question why it's needed at all.

Labor accuses the Defence Minister of a dangerous game when it comes to talk of confronting China and defending Taiwan.

As Australia's international border gradually opens, there’s disappointment for graduates on visas that would normally have allowed them two years of work in Australia.

Foreign students, and skilled workers just days away from returning to Australia, what will it mean for wages in sectors desperate for staff?

Parents are becoming increasingly desperate in their search for paediatricians as wait times blow out to more than a year in some states.

Star singer Adele leads a push back against the shuffle feature for streaming music, why should albums be heard in a certain order?

Australia's Test cricket team loses another captain in a scandal, Tim Paine exposed for sending sexually explicit messages, but he was cleared in an internal investigation years ago.

What else will be asked of us before this pandemic is done? And would we oblige, given the Prime Minister says Australians have had a gutful?

A sailor whose body washed up on Christmas Island after his ship was sunk in World War Two is finally identified in a DNA breakthrough.

Aboriginal survivors of abuse at a Northern Territory mission get an official apology, but is it enough given the historic pain?

COVID restrictions are lifting across Victoria, but not for the unvaccinated, while the Prime Minister says it’s time Australians took back control of their lives.

And Apple bows to pressure and will start offering iPhone users kits to repair their own devices, is this a turning point for modern technology?

The Northern Territory COVID outbreak remains a concern, we'll hear from an Aboriginal elder who says there's confusion in communities After people who'd been immunised – were still infected.

The pandemic's not over, but for some there's waning tolerance for harsh restrictions, so what powers should governments have?

And why the President of Belarus is accused of using desperate migrants as political pawns against Europe, we'll explain the humanitarian crisis as people freeze, stuck at the Poland-Belarus border.

Growing concern for communities in the Northern Territory as nine more Aboriginal people contract COVID.

Conspiracy theorists bring gallows and nooses to Victoria's Parliament house and extremism experts fear their threats of violence could become a reality.

And Russia's missile test in orbit forces astronauts and cosmonauts on the International Space Station to seek shelter, what does it say about Russia's military capabilities?

Seven years since the disappearance of William Tyrrell, there's a new search for the boy in the Spiderman suit and a grim acknowledgement from police that now it's a search for remains.

Why are elderly survivors of institutional child sexual abuse waiting years for redress payments to be processed?

And an assistant governor at Australia's Reserve Bank tells a parliamentary inquiry if you want to avoid poverty in your later years, you need to own your own home, so what do those with the power plan to do for those locked into renting?