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The Fifth Plenum is being held in Beijing, bringing together around 300 members of the party's Central Committee - led by President Xi Jinping.

The Department of Infrastructure told Senate Estimates on Monday that a $6 million grant the Prime Minister promised to Marrickville Golf Club was not for fixing sewerage issues. 

AI giant Anthropic - the company behind the large language model Claude - could be worth $2.1 trillion when it floats on the US Nasdaq in the coming weeks.

Opinion polls suggest a neck-and-neck contest between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and centrist Gadi Eisenkot, who is a former chief of staff of Israel's military.

Neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party nor his main rival Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar party is on track for a majority in the 120-seat parliament.

Angus Taylor this week has labelled the proposed agreement a "dud deal", saying the Coalition will oppose it unless it is modified.

The left-wing incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has come from behind to win the Brazilian election in extraordinary fashion.  But the right wing challenger, son of the former president Flavio Bolsonaro hasn't yet conceded defeat.  So what on earth is happening in Brazil? Then some Labor politicians are trialling the use of an AI tool to identify and hide abusive and threatening comment...

So in the age of streaming - why are you left waiting for movies that the rest of the world gets to watch first?

Have you ever wondered how you'll pay that next bill, the next rent or mortgage instalment, or make it through the supermarket check-out?

Katy Gallagher says the volume of the threats and abusive language is beyond what she's seen in politics before.

The Commonwealth Ombudsman issued a damning report on the aged care algorithm yesterday. 

The Commonwealth Ombudsman has found the automated assessment program that 85% of older Australians have undertaken to access aged care services has led to unfair - and in some cases clinically inappropriate - outcomes.

The first national survey of its kind of over 1000 rural and remote mothers has found 68% experienced postnatal depression with almost half of those never seeking professional help.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has returned home after nearly a year in exile.

The 80-year old President defeated right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro to secure ‌a fourth ​non-consecutive ⁠term.

Federal parliament will sit today for the first time since independent MP Dr. Helen Haines was attacked outside her electorate office. Parliamentary business will be suspended, with the prime minister to move a motion expressing support for Ms Haines and her family. She remains in hospital in a serious but stable condition. Then - Brazilians have been voting in a hugely consequential election that...

Polls were set to close at 5pm local time, or 7am AEDT, but a judge has now ordered that polls are to remain open after requests from both campaigns. 

The Health Minister says the environment has changed "dramatically" over his 20 years in parliament.

Security measures have been strengthened at Parliament House, where politicians will gather for the first time today without independent MP Dr. Helen Haines.

Federal parliamentarians have returned to Canberra, with motions of support to be moved today for Helen Haines and her family.

Sydney's second airport opened yesterday, with a Jetstar flight to the Gold Coast the first to take off. 

Over the weekend, Israeli forces levelled one neighbourhood - destroying homes and businesses, displacing 2,000 residents and cordoning off the city of 200,000 people. 

The Psychology Board of Australia has proposed cutting the standard training pathway from 6 years to 5, skipping the current requirement for post-graduate qualifications.

A warning - this story talks about still-birth and domestic violence.

A major review into Australia's biggest renewable energy project has found Snowy Hydro 2.0 could cost up to $25 billion, with the completion date pushed out another year. The project had an initial budget of $2-billion dollars and was originally expected to start operating in 2021. It's now it's expected to not be fully operational until 2029.  We hear from the government, the opposition and the p...