Prime Minister Scott Morrison has formally been handed a list of recommendations this week addressing concerns over a culture of sexism and misogyny in Canberra by a group of female youth activists.

Twenty year old university student and activist Jazmin Wright says “enough is enough” and wants to see change not only now but for the future too.

The recommendations include implementing workplace training, ensuring women feel empowered reporting incidents of sexual harassment and assault, and to include consent education in schools.

Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott joins calls for a Royal Commission into the handling of the response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

A group of Labor backbench MPs and independent senator Rex Patrick have also called for a royal commission.

Mr Abbott said there will inevitably be another pandemic in the future, so it’s important that our successors have the benefit of knowing what went wrong and what went right during this pandemic.

English police reported there was a shooting in the portside city of Plymouth where a number of people died.

Local MP Johnny Mercer says the shootings were not terror related.

The police confirmed there were a number of fatalities at the scene and that several other casualties are receiving treatment. 

The police are asking people to not speculate and to not share pictures from the shooting scene online.

A Senate inquiry has issued a 211 page report which provides 26 recommendations to fix the failures of the management of the Inland Rail project.

This is the largest freight rail project in Australia, and it aims to construct a 1,700 kilometre rail line connecting Brisbane and Melbourne.

Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee chair and WA Labor Senator Glenn Sterle described the "nation-building" project as rushed and half-baked.

Amid a worsening Covid-19 outbreak in Dubbo, it is warned the efforts to contain the virus are being hampered by a shortage of doctors.

The outbreak is the first to happen in a remote area with a high number of unvaccinated First Nations People, with elders calling for urgent additional vaccine and mask supplies and medical staff.

The Dharriwaa Elders Group in Walgett say the impacts could be devastating on their community.

NSW Health says they are rescheduling mobile community vaccination clinics to the area after they were put on hold last week.

An investigation by the Ombudsman found that former South Australian Minister Stephen Knoll committed misconduct by attempting to sack members of the Adelaide Cemeteries Authority board without authorisation.

Only the governor can dismiss members, but Mr Knoll tried to sack several members as well as its chair lawyer Ester Huxtable.

The findings were found last August but could not be released publicly until now, as Mr Knoll tried to challenge the decision in court but has now discontinued the case.

An iceberg the size of Greater London has “kissed” the coast of Antarctica this week, narrowly missing the UK’s Halley research station.

Scientists say the A74 iceberg made only the faintest of contacts with the coast and they have been keeping a keen eye on it recently due to the station’s uncertain survival.

The station is left unmanned in the winter months due to the high risk nature of the area making any evacuation very difficult and scientists say if the knock was any firmer the station may not have survived.