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The Treasurer’s suffered a coughing fit during a speech highlighting sickness in Australia's economy, we'll hear why the government's hopes for the recovery might be optimistic; and employment lawyers say workers who've been stood down during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been cheated out of redundancy payments;

The Prime Minister has fed speculation about the future of the JobKeeper wage subsidy payment, by talking about future adjustments to the scheme; and in Britain, 90 per cent of doctors who've died during the pandemic were from ethnically diverse backgrounds.

The Prime Minister’s revealed a three-step process to re-open the economy by July, but the decisions will be made by the states, and some say they're not going to go too fast; and out of work but not out of ideas - aspiring writers are using the coronavirus isolation to work on the book they always had in them.

Previously secret findings suggest Australia's most senior Catholic knew more about clerical sexual abuse than he admitted to the Royal Commission; and a retirement disaster looming, with research showing most Australians under the age of 60 will be renting by 2040.

Coalition parties are without an Eden-Monaro by-election candidate after NSW Minister Andrew Constance pulled out a day after saying he’d run; and an Alice Springs boarding school has become a TV studio, as teachers record lessons for students isolating in remote communities.

Getting people back to work is top of the National Cabinet’s agenda as the cost of coronavirus restrictions is put at $4bn a week; and a New South Wales health official has shed tears at the inquiry into the Ruby Princess, apologising for the department's handling of the virus stricken cruise ship.

Australian researchers explain how they’ll need to tailor any future coronavirus vaccine before giving it to some older people; and the Trump administration keeps fuelling claims the pandemic virus escaped a Chinese lab, but a virologist tells PM the probability of that happening is ‘miniscule’.

The Prime Minister says nationwide pandemic restrictions could well be eased in a week from now, but only if more people download the COVIDSafe app.

Promising signs the ebola drug Remdesivir could help patients recover from COVID-19, but warnings that it's no substitute for social distancing; New bank data shows Australians are spending more money gambling online during this crisis; And as millions of Australians download the COVIDSafe app, some diabetics are removing it because it's interfering with a life-saving health device.

Calls to major mental health hotlines spike as Australians try to untangle a web of complex anxieties in the pandemic; And the operator of a Sydney aged care home is under fire over its handling of a coronavirus outbreak.

With just one new case of community transmission across Australia in the last 24 hours, people are hoping for more easing of coronavirus restrictions; New Zealand is loosening their lockdown, with only a handful of Covid patients in hospital, and hardly any more cases; And how will Australia's coronavirus work-from-home experiment transform the workplace as we know it?

PM covers a broad spectrum of issues relevant to all sections of Australia's diverse community.

The Government has declared schools won't be held to social distancing measures but confusion still reigns among parents about when their kids will return.

Businesses are still waiting for JobKeeper payments, so in the meantime, the government’s urging them to call on banks for bridging finance; and where did the coronavirus come from? A wildlife disease ecologist urges us to pause before blaming bats.

Australia’s buying oil to bolster its strategic reserve while prices are the lowest they've ever been, but it'll be stored in the United States; and the coronavirus has thrived on cruise ships, so what's the industry's future?

Hospitals are preparing for more surgeries, as some coronavirus restrictions start to ease, but the excruciating wait continues for transplant recipients; and Virgin Australia's future is in doubt, reminding people in regional Australia just how reliant they are on a competitive aviation sector.

Some Australian states record no new cases of COVID-19, but despite the good news, health experts urge caution about talk of lifting restrictions; and will Facebook and Google submit to government plans that could see them handing over millions of dollars to traditional media?

The Prime Minister accuses an infected aged care worker of dishonesty about their contacts, he thinks it bolsters the case for Australians to have their contacts tracked; and there's a musical revolution at home, as aspiring performers buy instruments and take lessons in their spare time.

We face at least four more weeks of the current coronavirus restrictions, but hope lies ahead, if we can meet new testing, tracing and local response goals; and we focus on one job not going away any time soon… Garbage collectors have no choice but to get out there in the community, and they're playing a vital role.

A mobile tracking app raises concerns about state surveillance; And the US President's lashed out at the World Health Organisation.