The World Today

Counter-terrorism police have arrested a man at Sydney airport, alleging he was preparing to travel to Syria. The 22-year-old from Panania in Sydney's south-west was taken into custody around 10 am. Police have just held a press conference on his arrest.

A new report into elder abuse is recommending law reform to the residential age care and banking sectors to protect vulnerable citizens. Legal professionals and groups representing the elderly are gathering in Melbourne today and say momentum is building for change.

There are widespread claims from the disability sector that the roll out of the NDIS is being rushed. NDIS workers are now completing the annual plans for scheme participants in hours, rather than weeks. Carers, advocates, and service providers say many of the plans coming out of that process are sub-standard. They're blaming unrealistic schedules, drawn up by the state and Federal Governments.

Australian Sustainable Hardwoods is leaving the small town of Heyfield in Victoria because it says it can't get enough native forest timber from the Government. It's planning a move to Tasmania, where the company will source plantation timber from mostly private plantations.

Some residents of Lord Howe island of the New South Wales North coast are celebrating after the Federal environment minister knocked back a plan to build two wind turbines on the island. Others are devastated by the decision, which derails a plan to move to renewable energy. All claim they want to protect the world heritage-listed environment.

In academia, there's a term for taking someone else's writing straight from the Internet without attribution: Plagiarism. In music and art, the line's less clear. What happens when an artist moves from one field to another? Today, Bob Dylan is finding out, after a writer for online magazine Slate called out the singer-songwriter for apparent plagiarism in his Nobel Prize acceptance video.

A class action involving almost 2,000 detainees held at Manus Island has been resolved ahead a court trial starting in Victoria. The Commonwealth Government and lawyers for the asylum seekers have reached a deal but the settlement still needs court approval.

The Ten Network has announced it's entering into voluntary administration. Just yesterday the television station announced to the stock exchange that two key financial backers of the broadcaster were pulling up stumps. And staying in the communications sector, Telstra has just confirmed mass redundancies.

Every year during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, members of the Islamic community come together break their fasts at Iftar dinners. The Victorian Government's iftar is one of the biggest in the state, but this year its guest list has taken a hit. The state's peak body for Muslims - the Islamic Council of Victoria - has announced it's boycotting the event.

Senior Coalition Ministers are playing down suggestions the party is divided over how to improve the national energy network. Several MPs and Senators have voiced concerns about the Finkel Report recommendations. But Cabinet Ministers are confident the Government will finalise a plan that will have the support of the party.