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In his first major speech of the British election campaign, the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has attacked what he calls the 'tax dodgers' and 'corporate elites'. He says the British people are victims of a cosy cartel that has rigged the system in favour of the wealthy and Labour is prepared to take them on. Like Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen, Jeremy Corbyn is portraying himself as the anti-establishment candidate - except that he's doing it from the political left.

The former superintendent of the Don Dale youth detention centre in Darwin has been named at the person responsible for two escapes, in a review released today. Under the watch of Victor Williams, two youth detainees broke out of the centre three weeks ago and went on a crime spree. The review found it was Mr Williams' fault the detainees were wrongly classified as low security. Head-high grass around the perimeter fence and multiple broken CCTV cameras meant the detainees could simply jump the fence unnoticed.

Pressure is mounting on South Australia's Mental Health Minister to resign over her handling of the Oakden Nursing Home scandal in Adelaide. The state government-run facility will be shut down, after a report by the chief psychiatrist exposed patient neglect and a culture of cover-up by staff. The mental health facility will now close and the residents will be shifted to another home. It's also prompted a woman whose father was abused at a different aged care facility to raise her concerns about what she calls a broken system.

Russian Ambassador to Australia Grigory Logvinov says there is no proof Syria's President Basha al-Assad launched a chemical weapon attack on his own people. He's also touched on the situation in North Korea, suggesting the United States should consider toning down its military exercises in the Asia Pacific region.

Human Rights Watch is urging shoppers to learn more about who is actually making the clothes they buy and the conditions they're working under. A new report from the organisation ranks international clothing brands on their willingness to reveal where their clothes are being made. It found some top labels, including a well-known Australian company, are still refusing to give details on their supply chains.

The head of the Australian Council of Trade Unions has resigned from her advisory role on the Government's skilled migration council, in protest against the overhaul to 457 Visas. Ged Kearney says the council was not consulted about the changes, and only found out about the overhaul once the announcement was made public. She also doubts the 457 crackdowns will help to reduce worker exploitation. But the head of the Australian Industry Group chief executive, who is also the chairman of the advisory council, says that in the past 18 months, the group has discussed many of the changes that were made this week.

The head of the agricultural agency being relocated to Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce's electorate has quit. The ABC understands the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority's (APVMA) chief executive, Kareena Arthy, handed her resignation letter to Mr Joyce's office on Thursday afternoon. It comes amid ongoing furore over Mr Joyce's decision to move the agency from Canberra to Armidale, in his own electorate. The move has strained Ms Arthy's relationship with Mr Joyce, who might be pleased by a changing of the guard.

Tougher citizenship rules announced by the Prime Minister today will require applicants to prove their allegiance to Australia and its values and demonstrate stronger English language skills. Mr Turnbull says his government is doing migrants a big favour by raising the required English language standard. But the Greens argue a harder test will exclude people who would otherwise make good citizens. Labor's given initial backing to the Government's proposals. But it says the Government is only making the changes because of divisions within the coalition.

'Bankrupt leadership', that's how one leader of Australia's African community has described the government's proposed tightening of the country's citizenship rules. Members of the African community say the changes will directly discriminate against Australia's humanitarian migrants. And one academic has told PM the changes have echoes of the White Australia policy.

Some migrants are supporting the proposed changes to the nation's citizenship rules. Australia became home to tens of thousands of Middle Eastern migrants and refugees in the 1970s when the citizenship requirements were more relaxed. And as Antoinette Lattouf discovered, some members of those communities support the Turnbull government's tightening of the system.