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The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is almost a decade old. Australia is a signatory and has made commitments to support children's rights. But Aboriginal child protection bodies say things have gone backwards since then, and they've watched rates of children in care climb each year.

Researchers have created a model which predicts whether gene drive technology could wipe out populations of invasive pests. Using a computer simulation, they've shown mice carrying negative genes that cause sterility could have devastating effects on large populations. But while there are benefits of this emerging technology, there are concerns about the potential unintentional ecological and environmental consequences.

Commonwealth Bank chief executive Ian Narev and his top executives will have their bonuses slashed amid allegations that the bank's intelligent teller machines were used by money launderers and criminal gangs. As the CBA's crisis escalates ahead of tomorrow's multi billion dollar profit announcement, the bank's chairman Catherine Livingstone said the executive bonuses would be cut to 'zero'. The board has expressed its confidence in Mr Narev as calls continue for his resignation or sacking.

With record low wage growth, most Australians haven't seen a decent pay rise in years, but Australian company executives are in an entirely different ballpark. Corporate governance experts have told The World Today, Australian banking executives are among the highest paid in the world. In many cases, their performance bonuses are actually bigger than their base salaries. So how are these massive pay packets worked out, and do company executive deserve their quadruple figures salaries?

Today was meant to be the final day for homeless people to inhabit their tent city in the heart of Sydney, opposite the Reserve Bank office. But this lunchtime, the collection of about 40 tents is still there. Last night the Lord Mayor Clover Moore said she'd struck a deal with the tent dwellers to shut the settlement down. But today there is confusion over what was agreed to and now the New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian says her Government will act today.

The Prime Minister may have hoped he'd end the division in his party over marriage equality with yesterday' emergency meeting but the acrimonious debate looks set to drag on for months. The coalition is preparing to put the plebiscite option before the senate again before the end of the year. And if the Government then pursues its next option of a national voluntary postal vote, that could put the issue into the courts.

As police in Papua New Guinea investigate the death of an Iranian refugee, Amnesty International calling the death of yet another former resident of Australia's detention centre 'heartbreaking'. The body of Hamed Shamshiripour was discovered yesterday near the Refugee Transit Centre on Manus Island. It's understood that the 31-year-old had spent the past four years in detention. Lauren Williams spoke to his friend and fellow Iranian asylum seeker on Manus island, Behrouz Boochani about Hamed's final days on the island.

The World Today's Eleanor Hall speaks with entrepreneur and technology author Steve Sammartino about this week's major technology stories.

North Korea has issued a blunt new warning to the US - saying it will pay 1000 times over for imposing the toughest sanctions yet over its nuclear weapons tests. Pyongyang has vowed to teach the US a severe lesson with its nuclear strategic force. South Korea has renewed an offer to restart talks with the north - on the sidelines of a security summit in Manila. But Pyongyang has rejected the offer as insincere.

It's expected to be a close race between President Uhuru Kenyatta and his rival Raila Odinga, as millions of voters will go to the polls in Kenya today. More than 180,000 thousand police have been deployed across the country, amid fears of election violence and rigging.