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Labor announced today it'll try and replace the minimum wage with a "living wage". It's the latest effort from the Opposition to keep the pressure up on the Government over slow wages growth and the impact that's having on low income families.

While Thailand's long-awaited election has delivered confusion about a return to democracy, Australia's nearer neighbour Indonesia is doing much better in the democracy stakes. It's conducting a mammoth election in less than three weeks. Politics Professor Dewi Fortuna Anwar joins PM to discuss what Indonesians care about most at this coming poll.

An increasingly popular response to the global impacts of single use plastic - like shopping bags and drinking straws - has been to ban them in a bid to rein in their devastating effects on marine life and water ways. But as a recent rubbish audit in Darwin has found, bans aren't always easy to implement.

Donald Trump's triumphant take on the Mueller Report. His Attorney General's summary finds no conspiracy linking Russia and the Trump campaign. But does it really represent a “complete and total exoneration”? And warning signs for The Nationals - Will more bush electorates turn away at the federal election?

The long-awaited Mueller report into whether Russia interfered in the 2016 US election is now with the US Attorney General. He says, in a summary it finds the Trump election campaign did not conspire with Russia to influence the election.

President Trump says he's been exonerated, after the publication of the US Attorney-General's four-page letter on the still secret Mueller report. But attorney and Professor at the University of New Hampshire Seth Abramson says absolutely not.

The National Party are licking their wounds after suffering swings of more than 20 per cent in two key regional seats. The Shooters, Fishers and Farmers party has moved in on their turf. Locals say there's just one word on voter's lips: water.

So how worried are federal Nationals about the New South Wales result and will the strong outcome for the Shooters translate into federal politics? The Nationals member with the most to lose says he's concerned, but the Shooters face an uphill battle having to mount a federal campaign so soon after putting maximum effort into New South Wales.

After long delays, Thais got to vote in a national election during the weekend and a pro-military party is leading the popular vote. That's disappointed those who hoped this moment would loosen the military's five-year grip on power.

Leadership coup talk in London has forced Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May to spend her Sunday afternoon in crisis talks. Meanwhile, vast crowds flooded the streets of London on Saturday calling for a second Brexit referendum. For his insights The Economist's Jeremy Cliffe joins PM.