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The backlash to Scott Morrison's secret ministerial appointments is growing, although Liberal Party elder John Howard doesn't think the former Prime Minister should resign from Parliament;
Regional renters are getting no relief, even as new data shows regional house prices have fallen for the first time since the pandemic began;
And could the Tasmanian Tiger be back in the wild in as little as ten years?

Unprecedented, sinister and dodgy - that's how some constitutional experts and politicans are describing Scott Morrison's decision to secretly appoint himself to numerous Ministerial roles during his time as Prime Minister;
Calls for Western Australia to bring in a redress scheme for survivors of the Stolen Generations;
And should there be an overhaul of the way areas in Queensland are declared "in drought'? 

Today marks one year since the Taliban swept into Kabul and regained power. 200,000 Afghans have applied for Australian visas since then, but few have arrived on our shores.

Meanwhile, Afghans in Australia are denouncing comments made by former Taliban hostage Timothy Weeks, who now says he's celebrating the Taliban's first year in power.

And despite recording the nation's worst rates of domestic violence, an enormous part of the remote Northern Territory is without a dedicated women's shelter.

Coercive control is one of the most insidious forms of family abuse. Today the states, territory and federal attorneys general will try to come up with a more unified approach to the problem.

Now that Australia's passed the peak of the current Omicron wave, many of us just want normal life to resume, but Prof Jodie McVernon says it's not that simple.

And nearly six months after the catastrophic floods in northern New South Wales, 550 indigenous Australians remain homeless.

It's not even six weeks old, but already the federal government's new employment services program, Workforce Australia, is attracting a lot of criticism.

The Omicron wave has passed it's peak, with another hundred people dying yesterday, experts are desperately trying to convince people to wear masks.