The ABC has found that authorities in regional Australia are unable to deal with the rise of the drug ice particularly among young people. Four Corners has found evidence that children as young as 11 have been recruited to help outlaw bikie gangs manufacture and distribute the drug. 

 

When I hit, yeah, I mean ….

 

That's Ben Davies from at Four Corners last night. 

 

Now rescuers are scaling back their search for survivors from the deadly snowstorm in Nepal. The death toll now stands at 40, and several Australians including Simon Wild and his 17-year-old daughter Sophie are among those unaccounted for. 

 

Tony Abbott has just arrived back in Canberra after attending the inauguration of Indonesia's new president Joko Widodo. The pair held their first meeting after the ceremony. The Prime Minister invited Mr. Widodo to attend next month's G-20 Meeting in Brisbane, but he is yet to decide whether he'll attend. 

 

And the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's second child will be born in April next year. News, news of the due date was released in a statement from Kensington Palace overnight.