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Health authorities to decide whether the extremely small risk of rare blood clots will change Australia's vaccine strategy, what happens if young people are advised against the Astra Zeneca? And the government's delayed action on a major report on sexual misconduct, will its "in principle" response to some recommendations do the job?

On PM, we’ll pick apart the Prime Minister's latest justifications for Australia's slower than expected vaccine program; and a propaganda push from China's embassy in Canberra, trying to cast doubt on credible evidence of human rights abuses in Xinjiang.

Quarantine free travel to New Zealand starts soon, but any outbreak will derail plans, so it's flyer beware; and Malcolm Turnbull deemed a distraction, as he's dropped from a low emissions body in New South Wales.

Local production of the AstraZeneca vaccine is not yet at the promised one million doses a week; and dozens dead in flash flooding across Indonesia and Timor Leste, just as they're struggling to contain COVID-19 in Dili.

Brisbane residents out of lockdown for the holiday weekend, we'll look at whether people are prepared to risk going away; and as Australia's vaccine roll-out is limited by supply, scientists call for local production of other vaccine technology.

The states openly at war with the federal government over Australia's troubled vaccination program; and a COVID outbreak forces the last minute scuttling of the Byron Bay BluesFest, thousands of music fans are devastated.

Queensland's COVID cases rise and the spread among hospital workers remains a critical mystery; and not all medical workers are vaccinated yet, a leading epidemiologist tells PM Australia’s ‘very slow’ and people on the front line need to be vaccinated before anybody else.

Millions are in a three-day lockdown in Greater Brisbane, as authorities try to stop a growing COVID outbreak; and the trouble in the Suez could be over soon, as the big ship that’s been jamming the shipping route is partially freed.

The bobcats and tip trucks are finally moving into some flood hit towns, as the piles of destroyed walls, furniture and appliances just keep growing, PM has a special report from Wingham on the NSW mid-north coast; and is a reckoning imminent for corporations that try to silence complainants who report sexual misconduct?

After delays and denials, the Prime Minister's office starts looking into whether his staff secretly briefed reporters against the alleged rape victim Brittany Higgins and her loved ones, we’ll explain how 'backgrounding' in Canberra works; and the defence force rolls in to flood hit towns now smothered in mud, but not far away, some fear they're on their own.