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The latest homicide report in Australia shows the number of women murdered by current or former partners rose by 28 per cent in the year to June 2023.
Deputy Director of the Australian Institute of Criminology Dr Rick Brown told ABC that more than 1600 women have died at the hands of their partners through intimate partner homicide since 1989.
Triple zero will be protected against future technical issues like the Optus outage in November last year.
Almost one in three Australians were cut off from phone and internet services during the nationwide outage last year, with thousands of calls to the emergency hotline unable to go through.
The government will implement all 18 recommendations from a review which was commissioned following the outage.
Communications Minister Michelle Rowland says there will be greater overisght on access to the emergency outline.
"We will be implementing the recommendation to establish a custodian of the triple zero service. This will initially be led by the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman, who has wide consumer confidence, but also a strong knowledge of the telco sector."
Victims of youth crime are protesting in Queensland, demanding direct government action.
Trudy Reading is from the group Voice for Victims, who are taking part in the rally.
She told Channel Nine that there needs to be more action on youth crime incidents.
"None of it's acceptable. We're at a stage where we've got juveniles that are being kept in watch houses. We've got people that are afraid to sleep in their own homes, and we need some real action. We've got ministers that have told victims of violent youth crime that this is a fake concern and a media beat up. So what we need is we need some real action. We need to know that they're going to do something about this."
A group of Melbourne scientists are close to discovering a vaccine that can fight off all forms of influenza.
Scientists at the Doherty Institute have identified nine new similarities between different types of the influenza B virus, which can be particularly dangerous for children.
The study was published in prestigious journal Nature Communications.
Authorities have recorded 42,000 confirmed cases of the flu in Australia so far in 2024 and more than 289,000 cases in 2023.
A new tax on fossil fuel companies in the world’s richest economies could raise hundreds of billions of dollars to help vulnerable nations combat climate change.
That's according to a report that proposes funds raised by the levy could contribute to the so-called Loss and Damage Fund - agreed on at last year's COP Climate Summit.
Professor Matt McDonald from the University of Queensland says so far pledges made by the larger nations fall far short of what is needed.
"The big challenge of course will be trying to get states to commit and even greater resources given the scale of loss and damage that we're already seeing and will see in the future."
And in tennis,
Rafael Nadal has battled into the fourth round of the Madrid Open with a hard-fought win over Argentina's Pedro Cachin.
The 37-year-old defeated Cachin in a three-hour long battle, as he builds his fitness for the French Open next month.
He cruised through the first set but lost a second in a tie-break before eventually sealing a 6-1 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 victory.
Nadal spoke in a post-match interview.
"Some moments good. Some moments not good, but well, I find a way to be through now. I think in the first set, even with some mistakes, I was able to be a little bit more unpredictable and that probably changed the match."
Play was briefly halted in the first set while a spectator required medical treatment, with Cachin rushing to the players' fridge to send bottles of water into the stand.
