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The agricultural arm of Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting has struck a joint venture to export up to 300,000 cattle into China, every year. Unil now, biosecurity issues have hampered efforts to break into the massive Chinese market, but the company believes it's close to resolving those. Hancock Prospecting's chief executive, Garry Korte, said the deal establishes a new market for the Australian pastoral industry, which would create regional jobs.

Violence, delays and criminal investigations have marred voting in Papua New Guinea's national elections. Polling was suspended in the country's capital, where the election manager was arrested. In the volatile highlands region, thousands of voters eventually cast their ballots after disputes delayed the start of voting.

The White House has again accused journalists of peddling fake news, after CNN retracted a story about US President Donald Trump's Russia connections. The story was published on CNN's website last week but has since been taken down after the news network decided it breached editorial standards - three journalists resigned over the incident.

More Australians are getting treatment for drug use and it's increasingly common in the older age bracket. These are some of the findings from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's drug treatment services report. It also reveals that while alcohol remains the number one cause for treatment, amphetamine use is steadily on the rise.

Children in remote areas are falling behind when it comes to their performance at school. New research from Curtin University shows reading, writing and numeracy levels are poorer for students in disadvantaged areas, such as the remote regions of the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia. However, the researchers say there are some deficits that can't be fixed with a cheque.

Indigenous artists from the remote community of Pormpuraaw in Queensland's Cape York who use fishing nets as material for their art are now seeing their works on display in New York and Paris. It's hoped the art not only boosts one of Pormpuraaw's only export industries, but also raises awareness of just how damaging the discarded nets are to the local marine life.

Australia has passed a milestone with more of our migrants coming from Asia than Europe. It's just one of the fascinating details in the census results that have been released today. They show Australians are also getting older and we're shunning religion in greater numbers. And on census night, our population was 23.4 million. Dr Liz Allen is a demographer at the Australian National University's Centre for Social Research and Methods. She's been taking a look at what the census reveals about Australia.

The same sex marriage debate is again causing headaches for the Prime Minister. Malcolm Turnbull has ruled out supporting a private member bill to change the Marriage Act and has reiterated his support for a plebiscite. While Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon says, she's feeling bullied and harassed, as her colleagues decide whether to expel her from the party room.

The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case over President Donald Trump's travel bans on people from several Muslim majority countries. In the meantime, the court has partially lifted injunctions on the bans, which means that some people will be able to be legally blocked from entering the US for the next three to four months.

Some of the world's biggest social media and tech companies are joining forces to remove terrorist content from their platforms. Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Microsoft say they'll share technical solutions in what they're calling the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism. Are these social media and tech companies really doing enough to detect and block extremist content? Joining The World Today is David Ibsen, the executive director of The Counter Extremism Project, a non-partisan, international policy organisation formed to combat the threat from extremist ideologies.