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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Creative alternatives to retirement living: what do YOU want?


By 2050 a quarter of our population will be over sixty-five but we'll be living longer and with different expectations of life in our latter years. We explore the options of how to live and where to live beyond the conventional choices of downsizing the family home or moving into a retirement village. Guests Guy...
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Fact Check: Does Australia spend more on offshore processing than the UN spends on refugee programs in South East Asia?


Director of the Human Rights Law Centre Daniel Webb claims Australia is currently spending more than five times the United Nations refugee agency's entire budget for all of South East Asia on offshore processing of asylum seekers.
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Fact Check: Do nine in 10 Australians spend more than 90 minutes a day commuting?


Opposition Leader Bill Shorten claims nine out of 10 Australians spend more than 90 minutes a day commuting to work.
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Foreign parents, Australian children


If a temporary migrant has a baby with an Australian, the baby is a citizen. But if the couple splits up, the foreign parent doesn't have the right to stay in Australia and stay close to their child. It's often up to the Immigration Minister to decide whether or not it is in the public...
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Fact Check: Would paying people smugglers to turn back boats be illegal?


Greens leader Richard Di Natale says if the Abbott Government paid people smugglers to turn boats back to Indonesia it would have been a breach of domestic and international law.