Australia correspondent Annika Smethurst looks at the firebombing of a Melbourne synagogue at the weekend which is being treated as an act of terrorism and has prompted criticism of the government's response.
Students in Victoria have been affected by a publishing error which saw a number of exams released online - now 69 students have been found to have anomalous results.
And a new study has found Australia is losing up to three native insects and invertebrates to extinction every week.
Annika Smethurst is political editor at The Age