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Queensland is trialling a new approach to child protection by teaming up police officers with child protection employees. The pilot program is intended to improve early intervention. But a legal service that caters to women says the program would be stronger if domestic violence specialists were also involved.

The rift in the Federal Coalition over a gay marriage vote is again spilling out into public debate, ahead of Parliament resuming next week. Queensland Liberal MP Trevor Evans is calling for the Government to find another way to have the Parliament vote on gay marriage. But conservative colleagues say that's against the party's policy of a plebiscite. With Parliament set to resume next week, Trevor Evans expects a debate in the party room on how to resolve the issue in this term of Parliament.

Female AFL players in Fiji say the sport is empowering them to challenge traditional beliefs around gender. They'll be travelling to Australia next week for the International AFL Cup to be held in Melbourne.

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The Federal Opposition says long queues caused by upgraded airport security could be eased with 'more resources' from the Government. Transport Minister Darren Chester says the new arrangements will be in place for as long as security experts advise they're needed. The arrest on the weekend of a suspected terrorist cell intent on bringing down a passenger jet triggered the upgraded arrangements at major aiports that are causing long queues.

The Victorian Coroner, John Olle, has found police had no alternative but to shoot a radicalised 18-year-old, after he stabbed two officers outside a suburban police station in Melbourne in 2014. The inquest heard Numan Haider had become increasingly radicalised in the months leading up to his death, and was trying to travel overseas to join Islamic State.

The ABC understands Woolies have lifted their annual pokies losses in Victoria from $666 million to $669 million last financial year, and now they're after more machines. The latest state government figures show poker machines have already taken a total of $67 billion from Victorians in the past 25 years. Gambling reform campaigners are now calling on policy makers to regulate the industry properly.

An unlikely coalition of non-government Senators has backed South Australia's call for a judicial inquiry into the Murray-Darling Basin. The Senators say allegations of meter tampering and water theft aired by the ABC's Four Corners program deserve thorough investigation, and that the Federal Government's decision to order the Murray-Darling Basin Authority to conduct its own review does not go far enough.

Donald Trump has revisited one of his favourite campaign issues; China's trade with the United States, appearing to hold it ransom over China's perceived lack of action on North Korea. The US president fumed in a series of tweets that China had done nothing to curb the rogue regime's missile program, while enjoying the benefits of hundreds of billions of dollars in trade with the US, and said he will no longer allow this to continue. PM is joined by Richard Sawaya, the vice president of the National Foreign Trade Council.

The man who coined the phrase 'The World Game' has died. Les Murray leaves a giant legacy for Australian football, making the country care about a sport once denigrated as a immigrant game.