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Victorian Government minister Tim Holding has been reunited with his family after being found alive on Mt Feathertop, where he survived two nights alone in sub-zero conditions.

A summit is being held in Western Australia's Kimberley this week, aimed at identifying the best ways to tackle the high rate of suicide in Indigenous communities.

The IMF believes the global economy will do a bit better next year, but not before doing a bit worse than expected this year, with the recovery next year flowing mostly fromemerging economies such as China and India.

The IMF believes the global economy will do a bit better next year, but not before doing a bit worse than expected this year, with the recovery next year flowing mostly fromemerging economies such as China and India. That means Australia will be well placed to weather the slowdown with only a mild slump.

A report into how much aid the world's eight leading economies give to Africa has criticised Italy and France for failing to keep their promises.