Radio National Breakfast

On this International Men's Day, a rare display of bipartisanship in Canberra this morning.

Labor, Liberal and cross-bench MPs are launching the Parliamentary Friends of Healthy Masculinities group, teaming up with preventative health charity the Man Cave to bring awareness to mental health issues and empower boys to become better men.

Guests:

• Senator David Pocock, Independent Senator for ACT
• Dan Repacholi MP, Special Envoy for Men's Health and Labor Member for Hunter

Producer: Tyler Hall

Parents are being warned to be on the look out for dangerous toys heading into the Christmas season, after consumer group Choice found some online retailers were failing button battery safety standards.

It comes just days after the consumer watchdog issued recalls for children's play sand contaminated with asbestos, leading to dozens of school closures around the country.

• Guest: Francis Ventura, CEO, Kidsafe ACT
• Producer: Grace Stranger

Music is important for learning and building confidence, but not every school has access to quality music education. 

Today's Changing Australia looks at different ways this is being brought to schools.

Bernie Heard from the Australian Youth Orchestra directs the Music in Me Program, which for the last 10 years has been mentoring primary school teachers in music education.

Musician Elvis Kernaghan meanwhile has been using his skills to teach kids in the outback how to write and record songs. 

Guests: 

• Bernie Heard, director of the Music in Me Program, Australian Youth Orchestra 
• Elvis Kernaghan, musician  

There's been widespread dismay in the research and development sector over significant cuts to the national science agency, the CSIRO.

Up to 350 jobs could go across its research units, as the agency focuses on on areas such as climate resilience and advanced technologies.  

• Guest: Ryan Winn, CEO, Science and Technology Australia
• Producer: Jason Whittaker

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley says the cost of net zero emissions by 2050 is a matter for Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese. 

Over the weekend, the Coalition settled on an energy and climate policy which abandons the net zero target. 

Ms Ley has indicated the Liberals and Nationals will now focus on a new immigration policy.

• Guest: Sussan Ley, Leader of the Opposition
• Producer: Isadora Bogle 

Minister for Home Affairs, Tony Burke, says details of the government's memorandum of understanding with Nauru will become public "in time."

The $400 million deal, which will see hundreds of people who were held in indefinite immigration detention be resettled in Nauru, was signed in August. 

• Guest: Tony Burke, Minister for Home Affairs
• Producer: Isadora Bogle

National science agency the CSIRO will shed hundreds of staff and scale back research programs in a significant restructure it says will help safeguard its future.  

Up to 350 jobs could go, following an 18-month review which has already seen 800 jobs slashed.

• Guest: Dr Doug Hilton, Chief Executive of CSIRO 
• Producer: Jason Whittaker 

US President Donald Trump has defended Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince, under questioning about the murder of a journalist seven years ago. 

Australian musicians will be celebrated at tonight's annual ARIA Awards.

But behind the glitz and glam, a new report has found many artists are struggling to make ends meet.

The survey by Musicians Australia — a division of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA)— also reveals significant concern about artificial intelligence models robbing an already overworked and underpaid profession.

• Guest: Kimberley Wheeler, MEAA Musicians Federal President and folk artist 
• Producer: Eddy Diamond 

The United Nations Security Council has approved a United States-drafted plan for Gaza, backing a new international stabilisation force and a so-called "board of peace" to oversee security and reconstruction.

Hamas has rejected the resolution, describing it as foreign control, while Israel says it will only support the plan if Gaza is fully demilitarised.

The resolution leaves major questions unanswered - including who will deliver aid, who will govern Gaza, and how the devastated territory will be rebuilt.

• Guest: Daniel Forti, senior UN analyst at the International Crisis Group
• Producer: Anne Barker