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The Christian former Governor of Jakarta has been sentenced to two year's jail for insulting Islam. The man popularly known as Ahok was found guilty of blasphemy for comments about a verse of the Quran and whether it permits non-Muslims to lead Muslims. His comments saying it did - enraged conservative Muslim groups and sparked both angry protests and a debate about Indonesia's religious tolerance. The high-profile case completely upended Ahok re-election campaign and last month cost him his job and today took his liberty.

In the final week of hearings for the youth justice portion of the NT's royal commission, a police officer who investigated allegations of child abuse at Don Dale youth detention centre today fronted the commission. Detective Sergeant Kirsten Engels ultimately made the call not to charge a guard who allegedly filmed boys masturbating in the shower, and sending it to his contacts on Snapchat.

Australia's biggest mortgage lender, the Commonwealth Bank, has increased its cash profit to $2.4 billion. But there are now doubts over how the bank will be able to grow its loan book as strongly as it has in the past. There's also growing speculation that interest rate rises, independently of the Reserve Bank, may also be off the table for the next little while.

Organ donation advocates have welcomed the extension of a support program for living donors, which they hope will ultimately reduce the number of Australians going overseas for 'transplant tourism'. Experts say a small number of Australians continue to travel each year to travel in search of harvested organs. But they argue that making it easier for people to donate organs at home could mean fewer Australians decide to look abroad.

The budget's not yet been revealed but this afternoon the big sell's already begun. There's three words you're going to hear repeated a lot over the next few days: fairness, opportunity and security. They're the themes the Government's going to build its budget message around as it tries to put a human face on its economic policies.

The Australian Industry Group is one group who is happy with the budget. Innes Wilox is CEO and he explains how increased Government funding in infrastructure, defence spending and a commitment to further tax reform is seen as a positive.

Joining the budget panel is John Daley from the Grattan Institute, Stephen Anthony, chief economist at Industry Super Australia and former Treasury official and finance reporter Stephen Long.

An Australian climate researcher is warning that a change may be under way in the Pacific Ocean that leads to a surge in global temperatures. If confirmed, models predict temperatures could hit the Paris agreement's aimed maximum as early as 2024. Climate experts are urging governments to take swift action to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Patients and health professionals are calling for federal and state governments to improve accessibility to medicinal cannabis and reduce its costs. They say there is currently a bottleneck in supply of the legally prescribed pain relief drug, and demand for it is only continuing to escalate. It comes amid a national education campaign to help doctors negotiate red tape in prescribing the drug.

Scott Morrison is pitching the 2017 Federal Budget as an 'honest budget' that will secure Australia's future in a fair and practical way as we look forward to what he promises will be 'better times ahead.' ABC political correspondent Louise Yaxley and economics correspondent Stephen Long assess their initial impressions of the budget from the ABC's Parliament House studios in Canberra.