Daniel Nancarrow

Parliament is back for its first sitting week of the year.

Look back on the day’s updates on the fallout from the Voice to Parliament referendum’s defeat on Monday, October 16, 2023.

The Wagner leader orders his mercenary forces to stop the march towards the capital after talks with Belarusian president and Putin ally Alexander Lukashenko.

Following days of alarm and discussion about how to deal with the surveillance balloon, the US is now racing to recover the wreckage. But what technology do they expect to find?

The balloon China says is for weather research is large enough for officials to warn against it being shot down, but what information could it be trying to gather, and what message might it be sending?

In the lead-up to the weekend, the nation's pandemic focus was almost solely on New South Wales. But a day after just a single case was recorded in Brisbane, the entire south-east of Queensland was again in lockdown.