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A national authority to answer emergency calls in lieu of Telstra is one of the recommendations made by a senate inquiry into the triple zero emergency call crisis.

The IGR report predicts an older and bigger population and that the nation will be more indebted and have what increasingly appears to be a permanent budget deficit.

According to the projections in the intergenerational report, more Australians will die than be born in 2066.

Is Australia prepared for the challenges in the decades ahead for the nation? The federal government has just released the latest Intergenerational Report which shows how an aging population is expected to reshape the economy in the next 40 years. The report predicts that for the first time, deaths will outpace births in Australia by the mid 2060s. As the number of tax-paying Australians potential shrinks, the next four decades will see successive budget deficits. This comes as a Senate Inquiry has delivered 11 recommendations in the wake of last year's massive Optus Triple-Zero outage, which has been linked to two deaths.

Cynthia Gebert says people need to know they have 'somewhere to turn to hold big techs to account.' 

Talks are set to ​focus on the Middle East conflict and the risks of artificial intelligence.

US President Donald Trump has reportedly called off planned US strikes on the Houthis in Yemen at the weekend.

Two of Australia's biggest banks - the Commonwealth Bank and ANZ - have updated their interest rate outlook for this year. 

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For more than 30 years, Uncle Don Rowlands has been the keeper of the Simpson Desert, as the ranger in charge of Munga-Thirri National Park in Central Australia.