A storm erupts over how a doctor, without the right training, gave the wrong COVID vaccine dose to two elderly patients; new revelations in the government's knowledge of an alleged criminal assault in Parliament; and a remote community in the northern territory evacuating in the face of the flooding and croc-infested Daly River.

After blocking Australian news pages last week, now Facebook agrees to restore services in a last minute deal with the government; rogue MP Craig Kelly quits the Liberal Party after being taken to task over spreading misinformation on Facebook; and a former equal opportunity commissioner says Parliament needs proper workplace protections and training for Parliamentarians.

Victoria announces a Royal Commission into Crown's suitability to hold a casino licence in that state; Federal Parliament's spiralling sexual misconduct crisis as a fourth woman comes forward with claims about the same government staffer already accused of rape; and a rare moment to smile in a pandemic as the nation's vaccine rollout begins.

A former Liberal staffer who alleges she was raped by a colleague at Parliament House will make a formal complaint to Police.

A simmering stand-off between the tech giants and the Government erupts as Australian Facebook users learn they're mere pawns in the battle over who pays for news.

The Prime Minister is accused of 'victim blaming' by the woman at the centre of a rape allegation that's embroiling the government.

The Government's handling of sexual assault allegations is under forensic scrutiny with a former Prime Minister describing a culture of misogyny in Canberra.

Pressure's mounting on the Federal government to do more about shortcomings in quarantine hotels.

All of Victoria going into a strict five-day lockdown and borders are closing as fears grow the UK coronavirus variant is spreading in Melbourne; and long-awaited testimony from the former sports minister Bridget McKenzie about the so-called sports rorts affair, but she hasn't convinced constitutional law expert Anne Twomey that it was all above board.

Hotel quarantine still has the backing of Federal health authorities, as the Holiday Inn outbreak in Melbourne grows; and how COVID is amplifying 1950s stereotypes about women's work, damaging their long-term career prospects.