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The Federal Government will start charging people owing welfare debts interest if they don't promise to pay up. Human Services Minister Michael Keenan says they're chasing more than $900 million owed to the Commonwealth.

It's been a big week at the financial services Royal Commission, with huge admissions from companies like Commonwealth Bank and AMP. One former Labor MP, who investigated the sector, says it's time to throw the book at executives.

On tonight's program: Human Services Minister Michael Keenan says there'll be consequences for former welfare recipients who owe money to Centrelink; Protests have erupted across India from both supporters of murdered girl Asifa Bano's family and from those opposing the rape and murder charges; and the research paper that claims Hans Asberger sympathised with Nazi ideology.

Asperger's syndrome was named after the war-time Vienna-based paediatrician Dr Hans Asperger, and now a new research paper says that previously unseen documents prove he sympathised with Nazi ideology and helped the Nazis kill children.

A new college in Queensland has been built from the ground up, specifically for children with autism, including rooms that are sound proof, with soft padded walls, but experts and educators say more teachers need specialised autism training as well.

The Queensland Government rushed legislation through in March to allow police to use facial recognition software during the commonwealth games. But that State's Government won't say where and when the technology will be used in the future.

A push for a ban on live export is coming from both sides of Parliament. Liberal backbencher Sussan Ley is planning to introduce a private members bill to Parliament to phase out the trade.

National Party Senator for New South Wales, John Williams, was mentioned as a Coalition voice long urging a banking royal commission, well before others were compelled to take up the idea. He says ASIC doesn't have to wait for a final report to act.

As the Royal Commission continues to hear disturbing evidence, the blame game has begun into which political party didn't want it to take place. Meanwhile, some say financial advisers are planning to leave the big banks and become independent.

The banking royal commission is focusing now on the poor advice some of Westpac's financial planners offered. The key case study was a couple planning their retirement, who wanted to use a self-managed super fund to buy a bed and breakfast property.