For more than a decade, banks have been under a legal obligation to make sure borrowers have the means to repay their loans. Now the Morrison government wants to roll back the rules, saying they will hinder efforts to grow the economy out of the covid recession.
Higher education has been hit hard by the covid recession, with more than 12,000 jobs already lost. At the same time, the government is trying to get the votes to pass the biggest shake-up of higher education funding in decades.
Performing arts was one of the first sectors shut down by the pandemic and is likely to be one of the last back. Some companies say they can't hold on much longer.
Victoria's first Aboriginal senator is about to be sworn into the federal parliament. The Greens Lidia Thorpe will replace the party's former leader Richard Di Natale.
