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On Tuesday's PM: The Morrison Government has lost another MP from its ranks with exquisite timing, as the Prime Minister had his own big announcement; and the US Supreme Court prepares to hear a case accusing Apple of running a monopoly in its app and music stores.

On Monday's PM: the Federal Government accused of paying lip service towards efforts to set up a federal anti-corruption body; and as a Tasmanian tourism operator mulls running tours to a sacred Aboriginal site, the Aboriginal Heritage Council says it fears ancient rock art could be lost forever.

Facing the likely loss of a vote on a motion to establish a federal anti-corruption commission, the Federal Government agreed to a motion to look into the idea.

Mexico says it will round up and deport members of the migrant caravan amassed at the US border who were involved in violent clashes with guards during an attempt to storm the border.

Several wounded Ukrainian naval officers remain in Russian hands, after their ships were fired upon and seized by the Russian coast guard in the Black Sea. Russia and Ukraine researcher Michael Kofman from the non-profit CNA organisation speaks with PM on the escalation in tensions.

The stoush over a new tourism development at a remote Tasmanian lake in the world heritage area is bringing different Indigenous groups together in a call for greater powers in controlling access to their cultural sites.

Australia's security agencies say that they don't have the right tools to fight terrorism and that change is needed. The Federal Government wants legislation to pass Parliament by the end of next week.

A defibrillator with a history of safety problems, such as not starting and delivering shocks to paramedics, is still being used in ambulances in at least three Australian states despite being pulled from the market for commercial reasons.

On Friday's PM: with the ASIC chair in the Royal Commission's spotlight, journalist Adele Ferguson discusses the corporate regulator's culture of timidity; and on the eve of the Victorian election, we survey the seats that will determine the result and speak with a political analyst who thinks the Opposition's law-and-order campaign is struggling to cut through.

Transgender Tasmanians are celebrating as their state moves to become the first in Australia to allow the removal of gender from birth certificates.