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In Victoria, undercover agents have been sent to open inspections, in an effort to crack down on real estate rip-offs.They've found a range of problems from poor property maintenence to health and safety failures. Advocates are calling on landlords and agents to lift their game.

It's been five years since the Western Australia coroner released the findings of an inquest into the suicides of thirteen children and young people. All were Aboriginal, and all lived in the remote Kimberley region. The deaths included a ten-year-old girl who took her own life, an event that led to promises of change to help keep children safe.

James Marape faces domestic political challenges.

Parents gave firearm to son who shot and killed four classmates. 

Dodgy training colleges will face fines of close to a million dollars under laws proposed in federal parliament today.  The crackdown would also deregister colleges which fail to provide any courses for a year. Unions and experts say it will boost a sector that's been undercut by shonks for decades. And it's all part of the federal government's broader plan to halve migration numbers in the next two years.

The Productivity Commission's first review of the National Agreement on Closing the Gap has found strategies to improve lives for Indigenous Australians aren't working. It says part of the problem is that governments are disinterested in relinquishing power to Indigenous communities.

The Nationals have declared regional Australia can't cope with any more renewable energy projects, creating a political fault line on climate policy.

Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock delivered a largely jargon-free performance at yesterday's press conference while warning that interest rates might still rise if inflation flares up again.

A US court has ruled Donald Trump does not have legal immunity from charges of trying to overturn the 2020 election results.

The Federal Government's been promising a crackdown on dodgy vocational education colleges... and today it'll introduce the first of its planned bills to do that.