Whether you have teenagers in your life or you simply remember being one, you'll know that teenagers like to break rules. 

Politicians and the media pack have descended on Canberra for the Federal Budget announcements on Tuesday night. Over recent weeks lobbyists have walked the corridors of Parliament House, knocking on doors or attending private events and closed door meetings to put their funding case to ministers.

Governments have long used the pomp and ceremony of the budget speeches to sell us stories about resilience in hardtimes and prosperity in goodtimes.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to move his long time defence minister, Sergei Shoigu into a new role as secretary of the Kremlin’s security council.

The Lullaby Project sees pregnant women and new mothers and fathers collaborate with professional artists, as they write and sing personal lullabies for their babies.

GUESTS:

Burly Englishman drinking pints, while throwing darts at a board in smoky venue to the cheers of a small but faithful crowd of fans. 

That was, for a long time, the popular image of professional darts.

But that stereotype has been turned on its head with the arrival of a 17 year old darts prodigy who's put a rocket under the sports popularity in the UK, the spiritual home of the game.

Just weeks after the Victorian state government scrapped plans for a second supervised injecting room in Melbourne, a new report has found drug deaths are on the rise in Australia.

In the nineties, the place to be in Melbourne was the Great Britain Hotel in Richmond for a parma and a beer as local blues and roots band Checkerboard Lounge played into the evening.

A new global study called the ‘ABC of Mobility’ has just been released and shows the world just can’t seem to kick the driving habit.