The government's aged care taskforce is looking to answer how we fund aged care by the end of the year.

But new research suggests there's some confusion about how the system already works, particularly amongst young people.

Guest:Dr Rebecca Huntley, Lead researcher at 89 Degrees East

Communications Minister Michelle Rowland has announced a review into the Optus outage, which on Wednesday impacted more than 10 million customers, including hospitals and transport networks.

After the 2020 Optus data hack, complaints about the provider to the telecommunications ombudsman soared.

Chances are there will be another spike in complaints once the dust settles from yesterday's lengthy outage.

Guest: Cynthia Gebert, Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman.

The Israeli Defence Force says it's destroyed 130 Hamas tunnels in Gaza, as troops push deeper into the city centre.

As internationals calls for a ceasefire grow, one US official has reportedly told CNN there would be no humanitarian pause unless Hamas released a substantial number of the hostages it seized during the October 7th terrorist attack.

Guest: Akiva Eldar, Journalist, author and veteran political analyst and contributor to Haaretz

Refugee and human rights lawyers have welcomed the High Court's ruling that indefinite immigration detention is unconstitutional.

The Chief Political Editor for 9News Charles Croucher joins RN Breakfast to discuss the latest developments in federal politics.

Optus' national outage left millions of Australians, businesses and essential services without critical mobile and internet function.

This morning, the government has announced a post-incident review, as businesses count the costs of the blackout.

Guest: Stephen Jones, Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services

The Optus outage took 10 million people offline, and hit hundreds of thousands of businesses. 

The government has announced a review into the 14-hour outage, and analysts say Optus needs to be transparent about what happened and explain how they will manage future risks.

Guest: Dr Alex Caples, Director of Cyber, Technology and Security at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute

From the Reserve Bank, to the Productivity Commission, to the ACCC, women now hold the top job at many of Australia's key economic institutions.

But in the classrooms and lecture halls of Australian schools and universities, it's a different story, with economics still the domain of boys and men.

On the west coast of Tasmania there's a race to stop a rare and ancient species of skate becoming extinct in the waters of Macquarie Harbour.

Environmental groups claim salmon farms have had a detrimental impact on the water quality in the harbour, endangering the future of the Maugean skate. But industry is also raising concerns about any potential job losses, in an area where they say farming is the "lifeblood of the community".

Guest: Luke Martin, CEO Salmon Tasmania