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ADF Chief Angus Campbell tells trainee officers at Canberra's Australian Defence Force Academy not to make themselves vulnerable to sexual predators by being out late, alone, drunk and attractive.

The AFP chief speaks for the first time since rape allegations against a Cabinet Minister emerged.

It's a mystery that could intrigue us for decades to come - how and when did alleged fraudster Melissa Caddick die? When did she die?; Calls for the Prime Minister to stand down an unnamed Cabinet Minister over historical rape allegations; And Donald Trump positions himself as Republican Party 'Kingmaker'.

With restrictions set ease in Victoria, we take a look at the first week of the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out and whether the Brisbane dosing bungle will knock people's confidence in the jab. And a tragic development in a mystery that's gripped New South Wales: the remains of alleged fraudster Melissa Caddick discovered months after she disappeared.

The Prime Minister has expressed full confidence in his Defence Minister Linda Reynolds - as she continues to recover from heart problems in hospital. The Minister has been under intense pressure over her handling of an alleged rape in her office and questions are now being directed at the Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, who has revealed he knew about the alleged assault four days before the Prime Minister. As the COVID vaccine roll out continues, the team behind the Oxford jab says they are working on a potential pill. So could a coronavirus pill be a simpler alternative??

Linda Reynolds is recuperating in hospital for a pre-existing heart condition, after a difficult week in which a former staffer alleged she was raped in her office in 2019;

The controversial Coalition backbencher Craig Kelly has announced he's resigning from the Liberal Party to sit on the crossbench;

The Health Minister Greg Hunt says there's still a long way to go, but the next phase of the pandemic response begins in earnest today as health workers, many in the hotel quarantine system, are among the first to get their injections today;

As the fallout continues over the Facebook news ban, the Federal Government calls on other nations to join its fight. And touchdown on the Red Planet. The Perseverance rover has successfully landed, so will we find evidence of life on Mars?

Facebook has followed through on its threat and blocked all news content on its site in Australia. So what does it mean for media companies and consumers?

Victoria's five-day lockdown is set to end at midnight as planned but criticism continues to mount over the state's current quarantine system; Tens of thousands of frontline workers prepare to be Australia's first to be vaccinated next week, as the first load of Pfizer shots are distributed around the country; And the BBC releases a documentary on a Dubai princess, Latifa Al Maktoum, who claims she's being held hostage by her powerful father, and is pleading for help.

Are we at a turning point? Australian frontline workers prepare to get their COVID jabs as the WHO clears the way for vaccinations to ramp up around the world; And the Prime Minister orders a workplace culture review, after claims a staffer was raped in Parliament House.

Victoria has recorded just one new case of COVID overnight, but the Premier says it's too early to say if the five-day lockdown will lift as planned on Wednesday; Crown chief executive Ken Barton resigns after being singled out in last week's scathing Bergin report; And fears the crisis in Myanamar is deteriorating, with armed vehicles rolling through its biggest city and the internet taken down.

Tense times for Victorians as they face another lockdown, the Holiday Inn cluster is growing and contact tracers are in a desperate race to track down those exposed..

Is Victoria on the brink of another COVID-outbreak?

The latest on the fallout of the Crown Inquiry after the gaming giant deemed 'unfit' to hold a Casino licence. And a call for international co-operation as rich countries found to be 'hogging' COVID vaccines as they're rolled out across the globe.

Genomic testing has confirmed the latest Victorian hotel quarantine worker to get the virus has the highly contagious UK variant;

South Africa pulls the pin on the Astra-Zeneca vaccine it's not up to stopping a highly infectious virus variant and the question's being asked has Australia made the right choice?

Is Australia's hotel quarantine system flawed and can it cope with what could be an increased risk of airborne transmission of COVID-19?

Thousands of people urged to get tested, after a hotel quarantine worker contracts COVID-19 in Melbourne.