The Prime Minister Scott Morrison suggested this week that some unemployed Australians are turning down job opportunities to stay on JobSeeker. With changes to both the JobSeeker and JobKeeper schemes looming, 7.30's resident satirist Mark Humphries and his co-writer Evan Williams have this update.

7.30 Satirist Mark Humphries unveils the government's new unemployment program

The Closing the Gap plan was supposed to improve persistent gaps in Indigenous health, education and employment, but 12 years on it has failed. To give you just one shocking example, in this country Indigenous babies die at twice the rate of other children. Now Indigenous leaders and the Federal Government will sign off on an ambitious new plan but some targets, like Indigenous justice, are stretched out to 2093.

After 12 years of Closing the Gap not much has changed

In the US a shadowy network of armed extremists known as boogaloo has been accused of murder and other violent crimes. Facebook has just banned hundreds of accounts linked to the group. Boogaloo wants to overthrow the government and for some members that appears to mean killing police.

The US extremists who want to overthrow the government

Melbourne engineer Neil Doherty is one of the last Australians still deployed in the world's largest refugee camp in Bangladesh. As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads, coming home is the last thing on his mind.

Helping the world's biggest refugee camp prepare for COVID-19

Acting Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly explains how some cases of COVID-19 from the Melbourne outbreak have moved interstate, and why the current suppression strategy will help stop the spread.

Paul Kelly discusses the latest COVID-19 outbreak in Melbourne

People living in 10 postcodes across Melbourne are now back in lockdown as Victoria grapples with a surge in coronavirus cases. On the streets and in the homes of St Albans, one suburb identified by the state government as a virus "hotspot", life is about to change all over again.

Life in a COVID-19 hotspot

As parts of Melbourne re-enter lockdown, attention is turning to what sparked the new outbreak. The Andrews Government has acknowledged failures with hotel quarantine allowed COVID-19 to spread to the wider community.

How lax quarantine sparked Melbourne's new COVID-19 outbreak

Last week, communities in northern New South Wales became part of living history with a re-enactment of the first official air mail delivery. It came after years of detective work by a local stamp collector.

Australia's first official air mail flight remembered

Defence Minister Linda Reynolds joins 7.30 to discuss the government's new defence strategy.

Linda Reynolds talks about the Government's new defence strategy

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews discusses what the government is doing to curb the new coronavirus outbreak.

Daniel Andrews discusses the Melbourne COVID-19 outbreak

As 300,000 Victorians come to terms with another lockdown, there are questions to be asked about Australia's strategy to control COVID-19. Norman Swan looks at whether it's up to the task as we move forward into months or maybe years before there's a vaccine.

How effective is Australia's COVID-19 control strategy?

Prime Minister Scott Morrison warned today that the post covid world would be "poorer, more dangerous, and more disorderly" and compared it to the global instability of the 1930s and 1940s. They were sober words to launch a much more aggressive military strategy for Australia, clearly reflecting concerns about China.

The federal government announces a new defence strategy

A new report has uncovered shocking and widespread exploitation of international students. It's a worrying sign for Australia's tertiary institutions, already battling to get foreign students to return.

Report uncovers widespread exploitation of international students

The pandemic has really underlined the necessity of fast, high-performing, affordable internet, but a full decade since Australia's National Broadband Network began, many Australians still don't have it.

Many Australians still don't have the NBN

The UK has the world's third highest coronavirus death toll at more than 43,000 people, and their relatives are leading the charge to find out what went so wrong.

Push for inquiry into the British Government’s handling of coronavirus

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