Trade is the big ticket item for the Prime Minister's visit to China, with hope remaining trade barriers for Australian seafood and beef will soon be removed.

Later today Anthony Albanese will meet with President Xi Jinping, on the first trip to China by an Australian Prime Minister in 7 years.

Qantas' tense Annual General Meeting on Friday has underscored the magnitude of the task ahead for the airline as it tries to rebuild its shattered reputation.

At the AGM, shareholders raised concerns about the wisdom and ethics of the airline's unsuccessful High Court appeal against a finding that Qantas had illegally sacked hundreds of workers during the pandemic.

Guest: Andrew Charlton, managing director of the consultancy Aviation Advocacy and a former Chief Legal Officer with Qantas

Whistle-blower David McBride faces trial in Canberra next week after disclosing allegations of war crimes committed by Australian troops in Afghanistan. If convicted, he faces life in prison. 

But there are growing calls for the federal government to halt the prosecution of the whistleblower.

Guest: Adele Ferguson, ABC Investigative Reporter

A Senate Inquiry into Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD, is set to hand down its report today with some expecting it to recommend expanding diagnosis and treatment.

Economists are predicting the Reserve Bank will likely lift interest rates at its next board meeting this Tuesday. It would be the first hike under the governorship of Michele Bullock.

Paul Bloxham, chief economist at HSBC expects rates will be lifted, and says it's needed as inflation is still a "primary challenge" and remains too high in Australia.

Guest:  Paul Bloxham, chief economist at HSBC

Once touted as the king of crypto, FTX founder Sam Bankman Fried, has been found guilty of perpetrating one of the biggest financial frauds in history.

It took just over four hours for a New York jury to convict him on all seven counts of money laundering, fraud and criminal conspiracy. Bankman-Fried now faces a maximum of 110 years behind bars.

Guest: Professor Yesha Yadav, Law Professor and Associate Dean at Vanderbilt University

Washington's top diplomat Antony Blinken has held talks with the President of the Palestinian authority, Mahmoud Abbas in the occupied West Bank.

The pair discussed US efforts to get more humanitarian aid into Gaza, along with concerns about extremist violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.

Guest: Nasser Judeh, Jordanian senator, a former deputy Prime Minister and was Jordan's longest serving foreign minister

Biologists have been trying to pinpoint the location of a starfish's head by unpicking the animal's genetic blueprint.

Now, a new study has revealed that the whole animal is genetically coded as "head", with no "body" or "trunk" region. With one researcher suggesting starfish were "just a squished head walking around the seafloor on its lips". 

Guest: Dr Jonathan Webb, ABC Science Editor

Nicky Winmar is a name synonymous with the AFL, and he's also a hero for many Australians.

In the heat of the game in 1993, after being on the receiving end of a huge amount of racism, Nicky turned to the ferocious crowd, lifted his St Kilda guernsey, pointed to his bare chest, and declared, "I'm Black and I'm proud."

He was the first Indigenous man to play over 200 AFL games and now he's penned his memoir 'My Story: From Bush Kid to AFL Legend'.

Guest: Nicky Winmar, former AFL player