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There are calls for the second tranche of Labor's Industrial Relation bill to be split to immediately pass elements that protect victims of domestic violence and veterans, while the rest of the bill is debated.

Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie says the government is using these elements as a "bargaining chip" in an effort to pass the legislation as a whole.

Guest: Senator Jacqui Lambie, Jacqui Lambie Network

The Government is cracking down further on cigarettes, with a bill to increase warnings on packets and outlawing certain additives. But the other nicotine habit Australia is failing to kick is vaping.

Health Minister Mark Butler says the reforms are centred around "updating efforts" and "stamping out" new marketing tactics from big tobacco.

Guest: Mark Butler, Health Minister

The Great Koala National Park was an election promise from New South Wales Labor Government, and six months on, it's taken some incremental steps towards creating it.

The Government has announced it's banning logging in 106 high conservation koala habitats, while it begins consultation about establishing the park on the state's mid-north coast. The move has been broadly welcomed by environment groups, though many want to see more action.

Guest: Penny Sharpe, New South Wales Environment Minister 

The move has been broadly welcomed by environment groups, though many want the government to go further and faster towards protecting koalas in the state.

Just when you thought the furore over Qantas was dying down, the High Court is today expected to hand down a landmark ruling over the airline's sacking of 1700 ground staff during COVID-19.

And revelations this week that every judge of the High Court is enjoying membership of the exclusive Chairman's lounge has added to the muck surrounding the airline.

Guest: Michael Kaine, National Secretary of the Transport Workers Union

The 6.8 magnitude quake in Morocco, devastated dozens of villages in the Atlas Mountains, and there are fears thousands more bodies are buried underneath the rubble.

Pressure and anger is mounting on Morocco's government to accept the help offered by several nations - so far, only Spain, the UK, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have had their offers taken up.

Guest: Dr Lahcen Haddad, Moroccan senator, former tourism minister and the President of the Moroccan-European Union joint parliamentary committee

e 6.8 magnitude quake in Morocco, devastated dozens of villages in the Atlas Mountains, and there are fears thousands more bodies are buried underneath the rubble.

Pressure and anger are mounting on Morocco's government to accept the help offered by several nations. Dr Lahcen Haddad, a Moroccan Senator claims it's not about the lack of aid available but the "problem is getting to some communities."

Guest: Dr Lahcen Haddad, Moroccan senator, former tourism minister and the President of the Moroccan-European Union joint parliamentary committee

In Libya, a storm brought so much rain to the north-east that two dams collapsed in one region, sweeping entire neighbourhoods into the sea.

Local authorities say around 6,000 people are missing in Derna, a port city which already had crumbling and inadequate infrastructure.

Guest: Dr Hani Shennib, surgeon and the president and founder of the National Council on US-Libya relations originally from Derna

Christine is the youngest of five children, and while she idolises her father and his stories of wartime heroics, her sister Jill doesn't quite feel the same.

Australian film and TV star Angourie Rice makes her stage debut in Melbourne Theatre Company's 'My Sister Jill', a collaboration between playwright Patricia Cornelius and director Susie Dee.

Women have long held a supporting role in the Catholic Church, and now the findings of a survey of women in the church in Australia has found they are not happy, and want to see reform.

So, what kind of reform are they calling for?

Guest: Dr Kathleen McPhillips,  University of Newcastle

Three years ago then-Sex Discrimination commissioner Kate Jenkins delivered her landmark Respect@Work report.

The Australian Human Rights Commission will receive new regulatory powers as a result of that report's findings, and Australia's new Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Dr Anna Cody, will be at the helm. So who is Dr Anna Cody and what does she hope to achieve?

Guest: Dr Anna Cody, Sex Discrimination Commissioner