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Paul Collins, a former priest and commentator, said the Vatican was sure to be keeping an eye on Cardinal Pell's trial, but that affairs in Australia were unlikely to be determining policy there.

Australia's most senior Catholic, Cardinal George Pell, has been committed to stand trial on multiple historical sexual offence charges, although about half of them were dismissed by the magistrate.

Australian serviceman Miles Wootten has returned to Rwanda as part of a delegation of the peacekeeping forces that were deployed there after the 1994 genocide, to see how the country has changed since he left, and to come to terms with his past.

On today's program: Cardinal George Pell will stand trial on multiple historical sexual offences though the magistrate dismissed many others; We look at the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority's report into failings at the Commonwealth Bank; And a veteran ADF peacekeeper who was deployed to Rwanda after the 1994 genocide returns to Kigali.

Historians have been correcting the record, after the Australian World War One General Sir John Monash was linked with the Anzac's victory at the French town of Villers-Bretonneux in 1918.

People from very remote communities may now not have to leave their homes and families to stay alive on dialysis for end-stage kidney disease, after the Government agreed to fund a new Medicare item number for dialysis in remote communities.

Air strikes against Iranian targets inside Syria overnight appear certain to have been conducted by Israel, fuelling growing fears of an all-out war between Israel and Iran. The simmering tensions are accompanied by chilling threats towards each other.

A parliamentary inquiry is underway in New South Wales, focusing on programs aimed at keeping children out of jail. The President of the state's Children's Court has expressed concern about a lack of interest in youth diversionary programs.

Corporate Australia is still unwilling to openly call for a cleanout of the board of disgraced wealth management company AMP - despite evidence of wrongdoing uncovered at the Royal Commission. AMP chairman Catherine Brenner resigned this morning.

Education leapt back into the headlines today, and the latest recommendations to government have drawn mixed responses. At issue are the findings of what's been called Gonski 2.0, the Turnbull Government's major review of school education,