Cardinal George Pell has been described as a lightning rod for outrage and his third time before the child abuse royal commission will be no different.
Charities working in immigration detention centres were asked to pay multimillion-dollar bonds that could be forfeited if they spoke out against government policy, as the Coalition sought to maintain secrecy over border protection.
Australia and China will go ahead with planned joint naval drills despite Canberra's public support for US naval patrols in the South China Sea, which Beijing blasted as "dangerous and provocative".
