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Australia has agreed to a free trade deal with the United Arab Emirates which it says could mean cheaper household items and building materials.
In the nation's first free trade agreement with a Middle Eastern nation, Australian farmers - including beef and sheep producers - will save about $50 million a year on their exports.
Australian households and businesses will save $40 million a year with tarrifs to be cut on jewellery, perfumes, furniture, copper wire, glass containers and plastic imported from the Middle East.
Trade Minister Don Farrell says it's a good deal for the country.
"More trade with more trading partners means more jobs for Australians, more opportunities, and a lower cost of living."
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The Prime Minister says he has not ruled out a double dissolution election as Labor struggles to get its housing policy through the Senate.
Neither the Coalition or the Greens support the Help to Buy bill in its current form, with the Greens arguing it would actually drive up house prices.
Unless it strikes a deal to pass the bills, the government can either withdraw the bills or have them voted down in the Senate.
If the legislation is rejected again after three months, the government is able to trigger a double dissolution.
"We'll wait and see. We leave... it's up to the. I tell you a way to avoid a DD. It's for the Coalition and the Greens to vote for legislation that they support."
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Startling research from the Australian Institute of Criminology has revealed how prevalent the domestic violence crisis is in Australia.
Their latest report has found one in ten men in New South Wales have had run-ins with police for family violence matters.
By comparison, one in 33 women had contact with police over domestic and family violence issues.
Family and domestic violence offenders account for nearly half of all recorded offences in New South Wales.
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The US Secret Service says it is aware of a post by Elon Musk on the X social media platform musing about a lack of assassination attempts on President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
A spokesperson has declined to say if the agency had reached out to Musk, who seemed to suggest in follow-up posts that he had been making a joke.
Musk has now deleted the post, but not before being criticised by users from the left and right, who said they were concerned his words to his nearly 200 million X followers could incite violence against Biden and Harris.
Meanwhile Republican nominees Donald Trump and J.D Vance have both accused the Democratic party of inciting violence against the former U-S president after the second shooting attempt.
But President Joe Biden has rejected those claims.
"I've always condemned political violence and I always will. In America, we resolve our differences peacefully at the ballot box, not at the end of a gun. America suffered too many times, the tragedy of an assassin's bullet. It solves nothing and just tears the country apart. We must do everything we can to prevent it and never give it any oxygen."
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Hamas says it has the resources to sustain its war against Israel in Gaza with support from Iran-backed regional allies.
The Palestinian militant group's leader Yahya Sinwar has told allies in Yemen in a letter that "we have prepared ourselves to fight a long war of attrition."
The Israel Defence Force has not commented on the report.
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Major Australian universities are pushing back against a proposal to investigate antisemitism.
A parliamentary inquiry will today examine setting up a commission of inquiry.
The Group of Eight, which represents the largest universities in Australia, has said the proposed inquiry is too narrow.
It wants any probe to include all forms of religious intolerance on campuses.
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Charlotte Wood has become the first Australian writer in a decade to be shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize.
The author of Stone Yard Devotional is the first Australian to be shortlisted since Richard Flanagan won the Booker in 2014 for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
No Australian female writer has ever won the Booker Prize, which is worth just under $A100,000.
The winner will be announced in London on November 12.
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In rugby league news,
Canterbury football boss Phil Gould says it is "too early" to determine whether Josh Addo-Carr has played his last Bulldogs game as the winger prepares to front the NRL integrity unit over his cocaine saga.
Addo-Carr's manager Mario Tartak is arranging to meet with the integrity unit this week after a second positive test for cocaine was returned.
Phil Gould has told Channel 9 the Bulldogs' own talks will follow from that.
"At the end of the day we'll do what we think is in the best long-term interest of the club. It's as simple as that.And all the players understand that. Club first, team second, individual third - and that's what we'll do."
