Thermomix has become a kitchen appliance in many homes across Australia, but the company has been found to have made false or misleading representations about its product and ordered to pay more than $4 million in fines.

A group of wild orange-bellied parrots is hitching a lift to their winter feeding grounds. The birds were taken into captivity in Tasmania before the migration and they've been given a luxury ride instead after many birds died in earlier migrations.

On today's program: A watergate prosecutor says FBI raids on Donald Trump's lawyer could implicate both in perjury; A new production throws light on Tasmania's terrible Black War; and Prince Charles asked to intercede with the Government to help bring about an Indigenous Treaty.

Donald Trump has lashed out over the FBI's raid on the offices, home and hotel room of his personal lawyer Michael Cohen, where they seized what's been described as "privileged communications".

Lawyer, commentator and former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks told PM the FBI raids on Trump's lawyer were significant because the discoveries could implicate both Michael Cohen and the President in perjury over the payment by the lawyer to the porn actress Stormy Daniels.

Fairfax media today reported that Vanuatu's government has had discussions with China about setting up a permanent Chinese military presence there, after years of generous development funding, but the nation's Foreign Minister dismissed the rumours as "basically fake news".

Prince Charles was warmly welcomed to north east Arnhem Land this week, and asked, sovereign to sovereign, to carry a message stick to the Australian parliament. The message stick carries a declaration of sovereignty from the Yolngu clan leaders.

Rugby Australia has held a crisis meeting with Wallabies' star, Israel Falou, after the full-back made a controversial comment about homosexuals on social media last week.

Amid the excitement and relief at finishing a university degree, students are also graduating with tens of thousands of dollars in debts, and one education consultancy is urging prospective students to have a good look at all the options available to them.

Artists will perform "A Tasmanian Requiem" at Hobart's Theatre Royal to commemorate the brutal history of the 'Black War' of Van Diemen's Land, a battle between colonists and Aboriginal people in the 1800s that killed hundreds.