AMP's head of financial advice loses count of the number of times the company misled corporate regulator ASIC over charging customers fees for no service, in evidence given to the financial services royal commission.

Greens leader Richard Di Natale announces a plan to legalise cannabis for Australians over the age of 18, in a bid to take the drug out of the hands of criminal dealers.

Channel Seven was given a detailed briefing ahead of the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony despite the broadcaster later saying it was shocked that athletes were not shown walking into the stadium.

The UN urges Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton to consider resettling refugees languishing on Manus Island and Nauru for the past five years rather than focus on the plight of persecuted white South African farmers.

The US-led military strike in Syria will have been keenly felt in Tehran, whose arc of influence now stretches from Afghanistan to Iraq, into Lebanon and up to the border of Israel, sparking fears of a world war-level conflict, writes Stan Grant.

An irregular heartbeat is the suspected reason for Dylan Roberton's dramatic collapse during St Kilda's AFL clash with Geelong.

The industry says it's not out of the Napster-era woods yet, but things are looking up, as more and more people pay for streaming subscriptions.

Lauded by organisers as "inspirational" and "innovative", the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games come to an end in a heavily-criticised closing ceremony, with Channel Seven's hosts ripping into the event's organisers live on air.

Australian Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo takes advantage of a superior team strategy to pull off a series of brilliant passing moves and win in Shanghai after starting the race from sixth on the grid.

The director of the Workplace Gender Equality Agency urges employers to set targets for men working part-time, saying the normalisation of flexible work environments will help the "promotion of women".

For nearly 20 years, Kurt Fearnley has given it his all as one of Australia's most revered wheelchair athletes. In his last representative race, Fearnley displayed all his most important qualities as he finished with marathon gold.

The waste industry is calling for assistance to help it transition to a so called circular economy where waste would be collected, processed and then reused to make new products here at home.

While the possibility of a regime-change war still remains unlikely due to Syria's nuclear-armed backers in Moscow, it is worth examining what Australia's interests are in this conflict, writes Dr Kadira Pethiyagoda.

The Opals cruise to victory over England in women's basketball despite the ejection of Liz Cambage — and Mark Knowles and the Kookaburras add another gold, beating New Zealand.

Athletics wraps up in the main stadium ahead of Sunday's marathons, with Australia adding two more medals in the field events.

A girl held on Nauru, who has made three attempts at self-harm and is under 24-hour surveillance, wins the right to be taken to Australia for medical treatment after the Federal Government agrees to fly her out minutes before an urgent court hearing.

Vandals set fire to the surfboard-shaped clock at South Bank in Brisbane overnight, claiming their actions are in retaliation for Commonwealth Games protesters being arrested on the Gold Coast.

The Federal Agriculture Department suspends shipments of Australian sheep to an abattoir in Qatar over new allegations of animal welfare violations and breaches of supply chain rules.

Australian Chloe Hosking wins the gold medal in the women’s road race at the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast.

There are no surprises in the women's 800m final, as South Africa's Caster Semenya dominates the two-lap event once more, and Australia wins another pole vault medal on night nine of the Commonwealth Games.