Radio National Breakfast

Senator Shoebridge defeated former deputy Mehreen Faruqi and long-serving senator Sarah Hanson-Young to become leader last month. 

In his memoir released today, former treasurer Josh Frydenberg writes that the Liberal Party is on "the brink of extinction" thanks to "private feuds and ideological vendettas."

The government has proposed a minimum 30% tax on discretionary trusts, but it has been opposed by businesses that use them for flexibility in income distribution.

Three weeks out from the US mid-term elections, voters consider President Donald Trump's handling of the economy and the war in the middle east.

Milton Dick is the first Australian and person from the Pacific to lead the world's oldest multilateral organisation. 

Australians in the Saudi capital Riyadh are being urged to take shelter as Houthi fighters continue to fire missiles towards Saudi Arabia from Yemen.

This comes despite opposition from the tertiary sector. 

Music education can form an important part of a child's learning and development, but as school curricula become crowded and access to classes and instruments become too expensive for families - many kids in Australia are missing out.

The government is expected to bring legislation that would make changes to the taxation of discretionary trusts this week. 

The government is expected to introduce legislation this week, on taxation changes to discretionary trusts.