The president of the United States Joe Biden is urging Congress to ban assault rifles and introduce tighter checks on gun owners.
Another 6,000 people have been evacuated from rising flood waters across NSW in the past 24 hours and thousands of others remain on standby.
Federal health authorities say an Australian-made COVID-19 vaccine could be in people's arms as early as today.
The Victorian Liberal Party says it is open to quotas to increase the number of women serving in the state parliament.
