08:00:00 22/10/2016
Former Liberal Party member John Ruddick who quit in disgust at the party's factionalisations has hit out at a plan from Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to reform the New South Wales branch of the party. He says he smells a rat in the plan, which suggests a review of options to be considered by a reform council and will be voted on at today's Liberal Party Council meeting in Sydney. More
08:00:00 22/10/2016
Thousands of young Australian workers are expected to join an $85 million class action against the sales and marketing giant, Appco Group Australia. The Appco Group claims to be the "largest face-to-face donor recruitment agency in the world" and raises funds for some of Australia's best known charities. Lawyers for the Appco employees, who collected donations and sold merchandise at shopping centres, malls and other public places, will allege they were grossly underpaid and forced to work 80-hour weeks. More
08:00:00 22/10/2016
Former users of the potentially explosive Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone say the urgent safety recall appears to be unravelling and veering out of control. The safety recall was announced this month, after reports from around the world emerged of the phone catching fire and exploding. More
08:00:00 22/10/2016
Islamic State militants are being accused of using more than 500 families as human shields in the northern city of Mosul and killing at least 40 civilians for suspected disloyalty. Iraqi forces and Kurdish fighters have continued their offensive in Mosul for a fifth day and have liberated some towns that have been under IS control. But in the northern city of Kirkuk, Islamic State orchestrated a counter attack on two police stations and a power plant, killing more than a dozen people. More
08:00:00 22/10/2016
For the last two years, more than half a million Iraqi children have been living under the brutal rule of Islamic State. They were forced to learn violent Islamic State curriculum at school, attend public floggings and beheadings and were even encouraged to spy on their own parents if they saw them breaking the militant's fundamentalist rules. The full scale of what these children have endured is only now coming to light as thousands of Iraqis families flee their villages and towns as the military effort to defeat Islamic State gathers pace. More
08:00:00 22/10/2016
South Africa is going to quit the International Criminal Court. The country has notified the United Nations of its decision and legislation will soon be introduced to Parliament. It comes after Pretoria last year blatantly ignored a request from the ICC to arrest a man wanted for war crimes. More
08:00:00 22/10/2016
RSL NSW has received legal advice that senior figures in the organisation may have broken the law, in receiving and failing to disclose tens of thousands of dollars in payments. Four current and former members of the RSL NSW Council, including the current Federal President Rod White, each received a share in almost a million dollars in consultancy fees from RSL Lifecare, an aged care charity within the league. The advice recommends that two of the men, who are still serving on state council, be stood down while they're investigated. So far the Federal President is resisting calls to take a leave of absence. More
08:00:00 22/10/2016
An anti-poverty groups have hit back at policy makers for marginalising the unemployed and urged them to increase welfare payments. Low income people gathered to share their experiences of what it's like to live below the poverty line in Adelaide. It comes as South Australia reclaims the unenviable title of having the highest jobless rate in the nation. More
08:00:00 22/10/2016
The dairy crisis in Victoria alerted many consumers to the financial struggles faced by many Australian dairy farmers. Since Murray Goulburn dropped the prices it pays to farmers retrospectively, private label milk has been flying off the shelves, with shoppers keen to support struggling farmers. There's also been a rise in the demand for alternative "plant-based" milks like soy, almond and coconut. It's even leading some farmers to consider producing milk that is not yet legal, like hemp milk. More