Radio National Breakfast

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has confirmed several changes to the government's superannuation tax proposal have been made... more than two years after the original proposal was announced.

The changes include indexing to inflation the proposed new threshold at which tax on earnings would be doubled... and only applying the measure to realised capital gains.

• Guest: Jim Chalmers, Treasurer
• Producer: Isadora Bogle 

Positive policy change or a watering down of crucial tax reform? The federal government's re-work of its proposed superannuation tax policy has divided opinion.

While the government still plans to double tax on earnings on superannuation balances of more than three million dollars, the threshold will be indexed to inflation, and won't apply to unrealised capital gains. 

• Guest: Brendan Coates, Housing and Economic Security Program Director at the Grattan Institute 

Donald Trump has warned Russia that he may send Ukraine long-range Tomahawk missiles if Moscow does not settle its war. 

It comes ahead of another meeting between the US President and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House later this week.

But Russia has voiced concerns the transfer could cross a red line if the weapons are used on Russian soil.

We hear from retired US Air Force Colonel Cedric Leighton about the Russian concerns and whether they stack up.

The remaining living Israeli hostages have been released by Hamas more than two years after being captured.

As the survivors mark their first night of freedom, reaction is coming from across the globe, including here in Australia. 

• Guest: Josh Burns, Labor MP for Macnamara and Special Envoy for Social Housing and Homelessness 
• Producer: Isadora Bogle

A new LNG plant off the Pilbara coast of Western Australia will expose half a million people to unprecedented extreme heat and result in hundreds of additional deaths. 

That's according to new research released overnight from leading climate scientists, who say they can now directly link harmful impacts to new investments in coal and gas extraction.

The $16 billion  Scarborough Gas Project is expected to produce eight million tonnes of LNG annually from the second half of next year, which operator Woodside says will have a "negligible" climate impact.

• Guest: Professor Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, The Australian National University (ANU)  School of Environment and Society
• Producer: Jason Whittaker 

In a statement, Woodside told ABC Radio National Breakfast that climate change "cannot be attributed to any one event, country, industry or activity". 

According to Woodside, Scarborough "contains less than 0.1 per cent carbon dioxide" and "the project is expected to be one of the lowest carbon intensity sources of LNG delivered into north Asian markets".

The Israeli military has confirmed all 20 of the last living hostages held by Hamas in Gaza are now back in Israel, after more than two years' captivity.

In exchange for the hostages, Israel has released hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and detainees. 

The first groups have already begun arriving in Ramallah in the West Bank.

• Guest: Tirza Leibowitz, Deputy Director of Physicians for Human Rights, an Israel-based human rights organisation working to advance the right to health in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories
• Producer: Teodora Agarici 

World leaders have signed a document on a ceasefire deal for Gaza at a peace summit in Egypt overnight.  

US President Donald Trump says the signing is a significant moment for the Middle East. 

Meanwhile, humanitarian aid has begun to trickle into Gaza as part of the ceasefire, with dozens of trucks arriving in the past couple of days. 

• Guest: Tess Ingram, humanitarian worker and spokesperson for UNICEF, the United Nations' children agency
• Producer: Teodora Agarici 

In a wide-ranging interview, Australia's 28th Prime Minister Tony Abbott discusses Australian history, Indigenous Australian oral storytelling, multiculturalism and former PM Julia Gillard's famous misogyny speech. 

He shares his thoughts as he releases a new book exploring how democracy took shape in Australia. 

Then, Qantas says customer data has been released after almost six million customer records were stolen by a hacking group earlier this year through a third-party platform.

The airline says it's investigating what data has been released with the help of specialist cyber-security experts. 

And today, Israeli hostages and hundreds of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel will be swapped in the first phase of Donald Trump's plan for Gaza...

So how did this plan come about?

A veteran Israeli negotiator involved in the backroom dealings on this agreement will share his insights. 

Recap the morning's news, politics and global affairs with the Breakfast Wrap.

Madagascar's President says a coup attempt is unfolding in the African nation, as troops from an elite unit urge fellow soldiers to disobey orders and back student protesters.

We hear from an award-winning journalist on the ground who questions if it is indeed a coup, or a popular uprising. 

For 129 years, no player from the men's league had ever publicly identified as gay or bisexual. That all changed in late August.

Following a string of homophobic incidents in the top competitions of the AFL, Mitch Brown made the decision to come forward as the first to identify as bisexual.

• Guest: Mitch Brown, former AFL footballer
• Producer: Joe Sullivan