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Australian Opposition Leader Bill Shorten is seen as he speaks to cancer patients during a visit to Retcliffe Hospital in Brisbane, Thursday, May 9, 2019. A Federal election will be held in Australian on Saturday May 18, 2019. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Shorten forced to clarify asylum policy

Bill Shorten has been forced to clarify Labor’s immigration policy after his deputy Tanya Plibersek raised the prospect of revisiting the Gillard government’s failed Malaysia solution. Keep up with all the latest from the campaign trail in our live blog, PoliticsNow.

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Western Australian Treasurer Ben Wyatt, walks to Parliament ahead of presenting the WA 2019-20 Budget Papers in Perth, Thursday, May 9, 2019. (AAP Image/Will Russell) NO ARCHIVING

WA budget back in black

The Western Australian budget has roared back to surplus thanks to surging iron ore prices and a top-up in GST revenues.

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01/04/2019: Trial for three Sunni Muslims accused of firebombing a Shia mosque in Fawkner. Co-accused Hatim Moukhaiber enters court. Stuart McEvoy/The Australian.

Trio guilty of mosque terror

Three Melbourne men have been found guilty of burning down a Shia mosque in an Islamic State-inspired attack.

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Pictured is a current circulation $50 note printed with the word "responsibility" spelt incorrectly in Sydney, Thursday, May 9, 2019. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett) NO ARCHIVING

$50 notes circulated with spelling error

Around $2.3 billion dollars worth of currency has been misprinted by the Reserve Bank of Australia.

The nation’s new version of the $50 bank note, which began circulating in October, miss-spells the word “responsibility” on 46 million notes