The World Today

Any sense of a breakthrough in hostilities in southern Lebanon was short lived with Hezbollah rejecting outright a peace deal agreed between Lebanon and Israel.

Australia faces a proposed 12.5 per cent US tariff over forced labour crackdown.

A strategic treaty between Australia and the Solomon Islands is on the cards with the Pacific nation's new prime minister in Canberra.

The nation's low wage earners get a six per cent rise to their pay packets today.

New polls shows One Nation is the most popular party in Australia, as the depleted Liberals rally around new federal president Tony Abbott.

US and Iranian negotiators have reached a deal to extend the ceasefire in the war by 60 days, but that's yet to be signed by either the US President Donald Trump or Iran's Supreme Leader.

The Federal Government's controversial tax reform bill has been introduced to Parliament, but there's no clarity on carve-outs for industry.

Australian authorities take a softer approach to returning ISIS fighter's families, amid ongoing investigations into the women's activities overseas.

Households could see hundreds of dollars per year off their bill from July with even bigger savings expected for small businesses.

The head of ASIO has this morning given evidence to the Royal Commission on Anti-Semitism and Social Cohesion.

One of the 11 Australians onboard the Global Sumud flotilla speaks to the World Today about their treatment in Israel.

Northern Territory health officials say a third of the people with diphtheria there have been hospitalised as the outbreak continues to spread.

The Federal Government's tax overhaul continues to raise concerns with public anger spanning from business groups to mum and dad investors.

Small business owners say they're reassessing their financial plans as the potential impacts of the Federal Government's tax overhaul sink in.

Fewer than half the properties up for auction in Sydney this past weekend sold, in what analysts say is a further softening of the housing market.

The opposition leader has used his first Budget in Reply speech to outline a tougher stance on migration, and he's vowed to reverse Labor's investor tax changes and hand back tax "bracket creep" to workers if elected.

The Opposition prepares to hand down its budget reply, which will tie Australia's migrant intake to the number of new houses being built.

A long over due reform to a broken system or an attack on the wealthy? How taxpayers are feeling about last night's Federal Budget.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says he's going to throw everything at housing in tonight's Budget, with an overhaul of tax settings likely to headline what he's calling ambitious, but responsible reform.

This year's Federal Budget is shaping up to deliver some of the biggest changes in decades.

Some of the returned families of ISIS fighters to appear before court after arriving in Australia last night.

Australian families of ISIS fighters who went to Syria are due to touch down in Australia later today.

Some of the women who went to Syria with ISIS fighters will be arrested and charged when they return late tomorrow.

The World Today examines the events and issues of interest and importance to all Australians.

Sheina Gutnick, the daughter of Bondi hero Reuven Morrison, who tried to take on the Bondi gunmen has fronted the first day of public hearings at the Royal Commission into Antisemitism.