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Ask any cricketer, and they'll tell you choosing a cricket bat is a deeply personal experience - it's sometimes likened to choosing a wand in Harry Potter.

For the most part, bat choices are limited to a handful of major brands which dominate the market.

But this Ashes series saw a new debutant.

It's been two and a half months since the US brokered ceasefire in Gaza came into effect and now some cautious signs of progress in the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territory.

The United Nations' Children's Fund says famine has been "pushed back" in Gaza but the UN warns the situation remains critical.

More than 100,000 people are still facing catastrophic hunger and the global hunger monitor or IPC says the gains are very fragile warning famine could quickly retur

It reeks of chlorine, sounds like kids screaming and is a summer essential for so many Australians.

But the public pool is under threat with about 40 per cent of Australia's aging swimming pools set to close by 20-30.

Some communities across the country have accepted that this summer will be another year without a local watering hole despite pressure from locals to keep them open.

Olympic swimmer Cate Campbell shares her summer reading list with Barbara Miller

Currently reading:

• The Names by Florence Knapp

Summer list:

• Mabel by Sally Hepworth
• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood 

The New South Wales parliament will be recalled today as Premier Chris Minns vows to draft new laws in the wake of the Bondi terror attack.

The government wants to tighten its gun laws and will also consider measures to restrict the rights to protest in the state.

A photograph of US President Donald Trump alongside the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein is among more than a dozen files that have suddenly disappeared from the US Justice Department's webpage less than a day after they were posted with no explanation from the government and no notice to the public.

The Justice Department has given no explanation for the removals fuelling speculation about transparency and questions as to whether other images of Donald Trump with Jeffrey Epstein also exist.

One week after the deadly terror attack at Bondi state and federal governments are hard at work on gun reforms and a review into intelligence and law enforcement agencies.

But last night victims, residents and thousands of supporters gathered at Bondi to remember the 15 lives lost.

The NSW Parliament has been called back today to urgently discuss gun reforms in the wake of the Bondi terror attack that killed 15 people.

Meanwhile, Australian police ministers are also meeting today, tasked with working through details of the federal government's newly announced gun buyback scheme.

Not since the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre in Tasmania has Australia embarked on such a project, which saw hundreds of thousands of guns collected and destroyed.

The New South Wales parliament will be recalled this week as the Minns government moves to rush through new laws after the Bondi terror attack.