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Financial counsellors working in remote parts of the country say there has been a spike in the number of people living in remote communities accessing their super, since the Government made it easier to do so in the wake of coronavirus.

While pressure is on to reform aggressive, militarised policing in the United States, a leading advocate for economic inclusion says the United States is only on the first rung when it comes to erasing systemic racism from the economic system.

Tear gas has been fired into a prison yard in Sydney' Long Bay Jail to control inmates said to have been fighting, while helicopter vision also shows they'd spelled out BLM - for Black Lives Matter - on the ground in the yard.

In Papua New Guinea, a violent attack on a gold-medal winning athlete has sparked outrage about domestic violence in the country.

Several leading economists have told PM that even at the best of times, economic data often misses the mark - so now, under the COVID-crisis, it has the potential to be completely wrong.

Despite police injunctions and warning from public health officials, Indigenous leaders says the Black Lives Matter protests planned for this weekend should go ahead.

Court injunctions and pleas for people not to attend planned Black Lives Matter protests in Australia; Australian police crack a horrific child exploitation ring; And coronavirus restrictions lift and people flock to town in Alice Springs.

US lawmakers, both Democrat and Republican, are flagging action on police brutality in the wake of the death of African American man George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.

The Australian Federal Police have arrested nine men in relation to an alleged child abuse network that was filmed, photographed and shared online.

Another escalation in political tensions with China seems almost inevitable after today's blockbuster changes to Australia's foreign investment rules.