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Suzanne James talks to investigative journalist Michael West about the PricewaterhouseCoopers secrets-for-sale scandal.

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Digital rights activist and author听Lizzie O鈥橲hea听discusses gambling reform.

Led by Rodrigo Acu帽a听补苍诲 Adriana Navarro,听Chilean-Australian community members are听campaigning听for the federal government to give an 鈥渦nreserved apology鈥 for Australia's听covert support to the US-backed coup against Dr Salvador Allende in 1973.

The Australia Institute (TAI) said the federal government鈥檚 $5 billion Northern Australia Infrastructure Fund (NAIF) lacks resources and lags behind other comparable government organisations in terms of process and disclosure and in operational funding.

The government has said it would 鈥渓ook seriously鈥 at using the fund to provide $1 billion to build a railway to carry coal from the controversial Adani Carmichael coalmine in Queensland to port for export and for a 鈥渃lean coal鈥 baseload power plant.