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Despite sounding defiant last week, the CEO of Australia Post Christine Holgate has resigned over the gifting of four Cartier watches to senior executives, a move she now says doesn't pass the pub test. The announcement came on the same day as the Federal government released draft legislation to establish a national integrity commission.

Also on the program; the bloodletting begins in Queensland after the LNP's weekend election loss, with party leader Deb Frecklington announcing her resignation; Australians stranded overseas outraged to find business fares are being charged for some seats on government mercy flights; the RBA has given its strongest support yet for the creation of an Australian digital currency - well find out why; and fast and furious, the final days of campaigning in the US Presidential election see Donald Trump hit five states. Pennsylvania is a key battleground, but could Texas deliver an upset? We'll speak to an analyst.

Western Australia is opening up to other states for the first time since April, while on election-eve in Queensland, the Premier reveals travellers from most of NSW will be welcomed, but Sydney-siders will be banned; and the bushfire royal commission recommends more power to the Federal Government and standardising emergency alerts. New South Wales MP Andrew Constance - who was amid the summer firestorm – joins PM.

The US President's on a multi-state campaigning blitz, Republican strategist Mica Mosbacher tells PM the election is going to come down to the economy; and how data from smart devices is set to become as revolutionary as DNA in helping to solve crimes.

The growing risk of election related violence in the United States, our correspondent explains there are fears of unrest on the left and the right; and after Australia's toughest lockdown, Melburnians return to life in public places, we'll get a taste of the joy and sheer relief.

For the second day in a row, Victoria recorded no new coronavirus infections, as the state reopens, will it keep coronavirus under control? Government backbenchers make misleading COVID claims about hydroxychloroquine and they prove to be a "challenge" to federal health officials.

The lockdown is ending and businesses will reopen across Victoria, an emotional Premier thanks citizens on a day where no new COVID cases are detected; and Australia demands answers after innocent women were ordered off a plane in Qatar and pressured into an invasive strip search, we hear from one of the Australians subjected to that indignity;

More concerns about executive spending - the boss of the corporate watchdog stands aside over personal tax advice payments; and the final US Presidential debate is more civil, more about policy, but it wasn't without some feisty exchanges.

Time's up for the Australia Post boss, after revelations about luxury watches bought for senior executives; and interference in the US election - intelligence officials are quick this time to call it out, naming Iran and Russia over spam emails demanding a vote for Donald Trump.

Four South Australian families mourn the deaths of their newborns. Why could they not have heart surgery at home? And as Victorian police prepare for Grand Final weekend, there's concern they'll struggle to enforce bans on parties.