The World Today

It's believed to be the first time poachers have targeted an animal in captivity in Europe, and some fear it's the start of a worrying new trend. The global trade of rhino horns is banned under a United Nations Convention. But that hasn't deterred those who stand to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars from a single horn.

Australia's leading funding arm for the film and screen industry says it's unlikely to approve applications, if a project's creative team isn't made up of both men and women. The hardball talk is to combat a significant diversity problem in the creative industry. But Screen Australia says the problem is so large, it's unlikely to meet its 2018 target for gender parody for feature films.

For many, Syria's civil war is a world away, something we only hear or see on the news. But now individual stories from the 2011-12 uprising are being told in a most personal and interactive way, in 'Gardens Speak' at the Adelaide Festival. Audiences are invited to lie in the dirt and listen to the stories of Syrians killed during that time, and buried in private gardens.

The chief executive of the Commonwealth Bank Ian Narev says no senior executive has been sacked as a result of scandals at its wealth management and insurance arms. Mr Narev is the latest bank boss to the grilled by a parliamentary committee that is part of the government's efforts to fend off a Royal Commission into unethical banking by banks. He's also pushed back at suggestions that dodgy bank executives should be publicly named and shamed.

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has heard evidence relating to the full extent of abuse within government institutions. The Commissioners have also been warned that some of the systemic problems allowing the abuse to occur have not been resolved.

One of Australia's largest electricity providers has joined calls by the national peak farming body for a carbon price. AGL has outlined its concerns about the nation's energy and infrastructure to a Senate inquiry. The company has also told the committee that dysfunction in the gas market is at the heart of problems with South Australia's power supplies, and that the cost of gas, inflexibility of the market due to high gas exports and inability to generate new supplies is hampering the sector.

The Liberal Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells is proposing a 'reasonable person' test be included in section 18 of the Racial Discrimination Act to end the controversy on the issue involving her coalition colleagues. A parliamentary committee has failed to agree on whether the words 'insult' and 'offend' should be removed from 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act

A key report card on the Australian environment has blamed a lack of national leadership for a failure to achieve better outcomes. The independent State of the Environment dossier is prepared for the Federal Government every five years. The latest assessment reveals while there's been some improvements since the last report, threats like climate change have worsened and may be irreversible. And the current condition of the environment in some areas is poor and deteriorating.

The US President Donald Trump is already facing legal challenges to his revised executive order banning immigrants from six mostly Muslim nations. The new order includes changes that are designed to hold up in court, after the first ban sparked chaos and was ultimately suspended by judges. But already human rights groups and at least two states are considering similar court challenges to overturn the second ban.

The Prime Minister has begun a day-long visit in Jakarta where countering violent extremism will be among key discussions. Malcolm Turnbull is attending the Indian Ocean Rim summit and will also meet with the Indonesian President on the sidelines of the talks. Mr Turnbull also ruled out joint navy patrols with Indonesia in the South China Sea.