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Hello readers. Scott Morrison’s new team is sworn in, and will Ivan Milat reveal where more bodies are buried before cancer claims him?

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - MAY 29: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison poses with the members of his new ministry at Government House on May 29, 2019 in Canberra, Australia. Scott Morrison announced his new ministry on Sunday 26 May, following his victory in the May 18 Federal election. The new Cabinet features a record number of women with seven taking on senior roles, including Bridget McKenzie as the first female Agriculture Minister. Ken Wyatt is the first indigenous person to be appointed the Indigenous Affairs Minister. (Photo by Tracey Nearmy/Getty Images)

Team ScoMo is go

Ken Wyatt gets a standing ovation from colleagues as Australia’s first indigenous cabinet minister, as the PM’s new team is sworn in.

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Charlie Teo on Today with Georgie Gardner.

‘Go back to your lab’

Star neurosurgeon Charlie Teo tells a TV host to get her facts straight and takes a swipe at a medical critic.

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Artwork of Kit Harington as Jon Snow, left, and at the premiere of the final season of Game of Thrones

Night’s watch

He fought dark forces as Jon Snow; now Game of Thrones star Kit Harington is battling his own demons and has checked into rehab.

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Undated : author Tony Horwitz

Tony Horwitz dies

The renowned author’s sudden death in Washington at age 60 has shocked America’s literary community and ends a remarkable romantic and literary partnership with Brooks after the two fell in love while studying journalism at New York’s Columbia University in the early 1980s.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MAY 18: 'Stop Adani' campaigners host a sausage sizzle outside the Queenscliff Surf Life Saving Club polling booth in the seat of Warringah on May 18, 2019 in Sydney, Australia. Australians head to the polls today to elect the 46th Parliament of Australia, with a tight battle between incumbent Prime Minister Scott Morrison of the Coalition party and Labor Leader, Bill Shorten. The Coalition party has led government since 2013. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)

Anywheres v Somewheres

Outer suburban and regional Australia has risen up against the inner-city elites, as the divide grows wider between the university graduate globetrotting Anywheres and the change-resistent, stay-at-home Somewheres.

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FILE - In this March 4, 2018 file photo, Jeff Bezos and wife MacKenzie Bezos arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Calif. MacKenzie Bezos is pledging half her fortune to charity, following in the footsteps of billionaires Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. The ex-wife of Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos finalized her divorce in April 2019 and reportedly got a stake in the online shopping giant worth over $35 billion. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Divorcee’s philanthropy spree

MacKenzie Bezos will donate half of the $US36bn secured after her split from Jeff Bezos to charity.

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NRL player Jack De Belin arrives at the NSW Federal Court in Sydney, Thursday, April 18, 2019. Jack de Belin is suing the NRL and ARL Commission after he was indefinitely suspended under the game's crackdown on misbehaviour. (AAP Image/Peter Rae) NO ARCHIVING

De Belin on new rape charges

Dragons player Jack de Belin has been hit with an additional two rape charges.

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Ivan Milat and his victims Anja Habschied, Simon Schmidl, Caroline Clarke, James Gibson, Deborah Everist, Joanne Walters and Gabor Neugebauer.

The long read: Time for Milat to confess

Ivan Milat is dying of cancer, but will Australia’s most infamous serial killer finally reveal his other victims before he goes to his grave? David Murray has the story.