The BBHO syndicate would compete with Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting in bidding for the S. Kidman cattle empire. Sterling Buntine from BBHO told the Kidman board on Sunday it would lodge a bid this week for all shares of Kidman.

Brazilian authorities filed charges against21 officials and employees of mining giants BHP Billiton (ASX: BHP), Vale and Samarco, their joint-venture company, for the collapse of the Samarco iron ore mine in November 2015 which killed 19 people. Among those facing charges is Jimmy Wilson, former executive of BHP, who was charged with qualified homicide.

Trinity Grammar School students had raped each other more than 15 years ago, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has heard. The prestigious Anglican school in Sydney has come under fire following two boys’ complaints of sexual abuse in the school.

The Turnbull government has quietly withdrawn its gag order for doctors working in the Australian offshore detention centres. On Friday, the Department of Immigration and Border Protection posted on its website an amendment that removed the ban on health professionals to disclose abuses on asylum seeker and refugees.

Australia’s unemployment rate in September did not change from August’s 5.6 percent, the lowest in three years. The unchanged joblessness rate was achieved even if 9,800 jobs were lost for the ninth month of 2016.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has revealed that a total of 1551 Australians were arrested overseas in 2015-2016 for offences including drugs, fraud and assault.  The figures indicated that there was an increase of 23 percent from the department's previous records.

Thanks to a box of Australian breakfast favourite Weet-Bix prominently placed in an episode of “Ode to Joy,” a Chinese drama, business is booming in China for the manufacturer of the flaky wheat cakes. Sanitarium, the maker of the breakfast item, is currently shipping 125,000 boxes of Weet-Bix monthly to the Asian giant.

She believes that it is 'unacceptable' for the Australian youth to lose by default.

It would be another round of balancing the interest of depositors and shareholders that Australian banks would need to go through as new Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Philip Lowe did not rule out another round of interest rate cuts. But for now, a third key lending rate reduction is far-fetched because the Australian central bank needs to guard against inflation expectations falling too far.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and some Cabinet ministers have used the smartphone app WhatsApp to communicate, and this has not been approved by the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD). According to Attorney-General George Brandis, he uses the app to communicate with Turnbull and other ministers.