The World Today

In South Australia a state government defence agency is raising concerns that the state will receive only a fraction of the Federal Government's planned investment in the next fleet of submarines and naval ships. The agency says there's a 'false perception' that South Australia will receive a large part of the investment and jobs. The issue is being debated in Adelaide today at a senate inquiry into the future of Australia's naval shipbuilding industry.

A new report from the CSIRO warns Australia's high tech manufacturing industry risks losing medical and pharmaceutical work overseas without changes to investment and regulation. The CSIRO has developed a roadmap for the $4.4 billion industry. It says it has a bright future, but slow and outdated regulation is putting future growth at risk. The industry itself says it's confident progress is being made, and it will be able to create close to 30,000 jobs over the next decade.

The Russian government is not ruling out terrorism as the motive for an explosion that killed 11 people on a St Petersburg subway and wounded more than 40 others. There's been no claim of responsibility, but Russia has been threatened frequently by Islamic State and Chechan-based groups. Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs says there are no indications of Australians being affected.

With rising concern over civilian casualties in Mosul, Iraqi troops say they're slowing down operations in order to open safe corridors for families to escape the embattled city. Observers say there appears to be a reduction in the amount of firepower coalition warplanes have dropped on Mosul since an incident last month in which up to 200 Iraqi civilians were reported to have been killed in airstrikes.

Donald Trump is a disaster for US power in the world and may be the key factor in giving China a path to world dominance. That's the warning from China analyst, Howard French, who says the United States and its allies have only a very small window of between 5 and 10 years to avert this. And he says it is critical that we understand how an ancient Chinese worldview drives the current Chinese leaders.

A pay bungle at restaurants owned by celebrity chef George Calombaris has fuelled debate about the rights of hospitality workers in Australia. The Masterchef judge has revealed that 162 staff at his Melbourne restaurants have been back-paid $2.6 million.

Aboriginal health experts are challenging how suicide is handled in Indigenous communities, backing a cultural solution to prevent deaths. The high rate of Indigenous suicide is one of the big issues being tackled at the World Congress on Public Health in Melbourne this week.

On the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, an archaeological cave dig has unearthed prehistoric ornaments and artworks that date back at least 30,000 years ago. Experts believe the site was used by some of the world's earliest cave artists.

The Victorian Government is facing another legal battle over the way it operates its youth justice system. This challenge is from the Human Rights Law Centre, which is representing a number of detainees who are being remanded in an adult prison.

In Northern New South Wales, residents are becoming painfully aware of the extent of the damage from the floods. Thousands of tonnes of rubbish are being piled up on the streets of the Lismore, where an estimated three thousands homes and businesses have been damaged. Deputy Commissioner of the NSW SES, Mark Morrow, says the clean-up could take months.