The rains are coming today, but they are unlikely to be the biblical proportions of Friday.

"So there it is," Malcolm Turnbull told the Prime Minister's Prize for Science dinner in October. "Don't retire, you'll just get sad. Think of yourself, think of your own health, just keep working, work until you drop, just keep doing it."

Labor MP Lynda Voltz has criticised an investigation by the NSW parliament into sexual harassment claims against former NSW ALP boss Jamie Clements.

The ASX held to a familiar pattern on Wednesday, rising at the open before quickly falling back into the red for the rest of the session.

PM jettisons unpopular policy, but cuts payments to doctors, leaving them to pass on $5 fee.