Labor is questioning how Finance Minister Mathias Corman failed to notice his family holiday had been paid for by a travel company that had also been awarded a government contract.

Representatives from Dementia Australia told the Aged Care Royal Commission today that 1 in 13 of the Australians living with the condition are not elderly, but are in their 30s, 40s and 50s.

The embattled wealth manager IOOF has pledged to rebuild trust with regulators and consumers after its reputation was badly damaged during the financial services Royal Commission.

Medicinal cannabis is still only available to people with serious illnesses in Australia, but just how many people is it being prescribed to?

Australia's parliament will convene for only a few days before the federal election, prompting calls from the opposition to schedule more sitting days to enact the recommendations of the banking royal commission.

Immigration officials grilled in Senate estimates over taxpayers' money paid to an obscure company in a limited tender for security services to Manus Island detention centre; poor management behind mass fish deaths in the Murray-Darling, according to a new report; and just who is in control of Indigenous heritage in Tasmania?

AFP commissioner Andrew Colvin has spoken for the first time about the Interpol red notice issued against refugee football player Hakeem Al-Araibi, who was released from a Thailand jail last week. He says the AFP was unaware of the 25-year-old's refugee status until the Department of Home Affairs provided notification after his arrest in Thailand.

A report into the mass fish deaths in the lower Darling River has found that millions of fish died because of poor management of the Murray-Darling River system.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced that the computer services of Australia's major political parties have been hit by a cyber-attack. He says Australia's cyber experts believe a "sophisticated state actor" is responsible for the attack.

Concerns have been raised about a contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars to provide security on Manus Island being awarded to a little-known company.