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Another apparent breach from hotel quarantine, as the COVID case in Sydney is linked to a US traveller, but how the transmission occurred remains a mystery; Australia's medicine regulator urges people to keep getting the AstraZeneca vaccine, despite more very rare blood clots being reported; And the US government backs a waiver of COVID vaccine patents, what would that mean for equitable access to vaccines?

Sydney’s COVID mystery, where a man's who's tested positive was active in the community all of last weekend; Also, the India travel ban will be challenged in court, it’ll be a test of the rights of Australian citizens; And why the federal budget will be hobbled trying to achieve gender equality, the problem is the absence of a national survey, which measures unpaid labour.

Health, political, sport and legal voices now criticising the India travel ban, many want Australian citizens back, along with better a quarantine system; Public health experts have a plan to fix quarantine, with a tiered system of facilities, based on risk, we’re joined by University of Melbourne epidemiologist Professor Tony Blakely; And Muslim women dismayed at the COVID distancing response from some mosques, that left them with no place to pray.

The government resisting pressure, even from its backbench, to drop its harsh penalty for citizens who manage to return home directly from India; The World Health Organisation explicitly says breathing out coronavirus is infecting people, one infectious diseases physician says the federal government must now step up on hotel infection control; And a Human Rights Commission report reveals the physical, emotional, and sexual abuse of young gymnasts in Australia.

Political staffer Brittany Higgins describes her discussion with the Prime Minister as robust and difficult, as she makes her plea for parliament to be a safer place for women; A warning about children and concussion, given new research finds a third who suffer the brain injury go on to develop mental health issues; And researchers have mapped what they've dubbed ancient "super highways" that early Aboriginal Australians used to migrate across the continent.

On PM: The Treasurer's shift in budget priorities, Josh Frydenberg suggests he can now drive unemployment lower and push wages up. The budget's due in less than two weeks so we'll explain his thinking and look at the chances of success; and India remains trapped in its COVID crisis and now, a warning about potentially dire consequences for children in desperate families. Plus, we’ll speak with a virologist in the south of the country's who's seen hospitals overwhelmed.

More than 200 thousand people have now died of COVID-19 in India, we'll discuss the long term effects on the subcontinent and whether vaccination can bring this crisis to an end; For Australians still in India, increasingly at risk from the virus, there's dismay as the Australian flight ban extends their wait; And a big upgrade for military facilities in Australia's north, but amid warnings of future conflicts from some, the Prime Minister insists it'll help secure peace.

Australia halts all flights from India, the centre of the world's biggest COVID catastrophe, amid fears of outbreaks from hotel quarantine; we'll speak with Delhi resident Neha - who was due to fly this week to join her husband in Melbourne; and four years since the Uluru Statement from the Heart was delivered, Federal Labor promises to embrace it.

Perth's lockdown ends with the COVID outbreak apparently contained, but the Premier's frustration with hotel quarantine is boiling over; and the film Nomadland sweeps the Oscars, taking three major prizes, including best director for Chinese filmmaker Chloe Zhao, it’s being seen as a win for diversity.

A snap three-day lockdown from midnight tonight for Perth and WA's Peel region after several people contracted COVID 19 while in hotel quarantine; As Scott Morrison resists international pressure to set climate targets, South Korea's ambitions could spell doom for a coal project in New South Wales; And what hope is there for 53 Indonesian submariners missing near Bali?