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We look at the future of international travel as New South Wales joins a trial of at-home quarantine, but with only a seven-day period of isolation for the fully vaccinated, will that be long enough?  

Also, the fallout from the new defence alliance - the Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce joins PM saying it's all about liberty and freedoms and won't increase Australia's risk.

And how the lure of the regions could dramatically change Australia's population distribution and the services available away from the coast.

Why does Australia need nuclear powered submarines? PM delves into the partnership with the US and the UK with former Labor Defence minister Stephen Smith.

The Greens claim the subs would present a nuclear risk to Australia, we'll look at the facts, and also the opportunities in high tech nuclear science.

And we meet the workers caught in the pandemic's no-man’s land, they're out of lockdown, disaster payments have stopped, but work hasn't yet picked up.

80 per cent one-shot vaccine coverage is achieved in New South Wales on the state’s equal deadliest day of the pandemic.

The Prime Minister to seek advice on ministerial standards and mysterious payments for Christian Porter’s legal bills.

And a new wave of Australians find themselves unemployed, we'll hear what it's like and what's standing between them and their next job.

The Mayors of Sydney's COVID hotspots press the Premier on the apparent East-West divide and why some people who've had COVID can't get clearance to end long periods of isolation.

As house prices skyrocket, a parliamentary committee struggles to find consensus on affordability while others have a clear view of what's making it so hard for younger people.

And citizenship for goal scorers, rugby great Quade Cooper can finally become Australian after the government tweaks rules for a select few.

After a testing lockdown and more than a thousand cases a day, have daily COVID cases in New South Wales peaked?

The NSW Premier warns that those holding off on vaccination can't assume they'll get the same freedoms, even once 80 percent of the eligible are double dosed.

And with vaccination rates in Africa at just three per cent, we’ll head to Tanzania where stalled safari tourism means extra hardship.

20 years after 9/11, we look at how the attacks fuelled American xenophobia and blinded the US to grave issues beyond terrorism. A view from a Pulitzer Prize winning foreign policy writer, Fred Kaplan, a witness to the Twin Towers catastrophe. Also why national debate about “opening up” must include wider use of rapid testing.

As the New South Wales COVID outbreak is set to peak and hospitals will be stretched to breaking point, why is the state's Premier pulling back from public appearances?

The US President's mandating vaccination for all federal workers, should Australia follow suit with public servants?

Twenty years since the September 11 terrorist attacks we speak with Former Australian Ambassador to the United States, who was opposition leader in 2001, Kim Beazley.

Just how risky is the New South Wales plan for the resumption of some public activities?

We'll explain what's happening and when and the tension around limiting freedoms for the fully vaccinated.

And we speak with a GP in Sydney who's concerned about the care provided to those with COVID.

Emails reveal Pfizer urgently seeking high level talks with the Federal Government – months before a vaccine deal was done.

The latest Australian review shows limited COVID spread in schools – but a leading epidemiologist pleads for countermeasures before locked down classes resume.

And the High Court finds media outlets responsible not just for their articles – but for comments on their Facebook pages too.

The Victorian Premier decries as 'totally unfair' vaccine allocations to New South Wales.

Proof of vaccination is an emerging global issue, and in NSW, police are set to start checking on people out picnicking.

And the Prime Minister's defence of a trip back and forth from Sydney to Canberra while most ordinary citizens are locked down.