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Prime Minister Tony Abbott has threatened to extend the parliamentary sitting calendar into Christmas during a joint party room meeting consumed by fiery speeches about an ''unbalanced'' ABC and a joking suggestion that former MP Sophie Mirabella could take over the running of the national broadcaster.
A lawyer representing East Timor in its spying case against Australia has accused the Government of attempting to gag the key witness, a former spy turned whistleblower.
The Festival of the Sacred is on today the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Bendigo. The festival involves over 700 students from Catholic Schools in the Western Deanery.
Bendigo Technical Education College has its graduation tonight for year 12 students.
If today is your big day, happy birthday!
You share a birthday with US model-actress Tyra Banks, US actress Marisa Tomei and Australian rules footballer Jimmy Bartel.
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
1. In which town is Harvey’s Bitter brewed?
2. Does the B in ASBO stand for bad, behaviour or bully?
3. The perambulator was an early type of what?
4. Ferrari cars were originally manufactured in which country?
5. Anna Edson Taylor became the first person to travel over Niagara Falls in what?
963 - Holy Roman Emperor Otto deposes Pope John XII for dishonourable conduct and for plotting an armed conspiracy. Leo VIII succeeds as Pope.
1942 - US bombers strike Italy's mainland for first time in World War II.
1994 - Gunmen open fire on a trendy Stockholm nightclub, killing three people and wounding 21 others. Police believe the killers were seeking revenge after being turned away by the doorman.
2004 - Suicide attackers carry out a string of car bombings against Iraqi policemen in Baghdad and Kurdish militiamen in the north, killing 14 people and wounding at least 59 in the latest major assaults on Iraqi security forces and US allies in the country.
2012 - St James's Palace announces that Prince William and his wife Catherine are expecting their first baby and that the Duchess of Cambridge has been admitted to hospital with acute morning sickness; Typhoon Bopha leaves more than 1000 people dead or missing in the Philippines.
I got a job working at a revolving door company.
This job is going nowhere, fast.
Got another joke? Any tips on what we should be heading out to today? Send it in to merran.reed@fairfaxmedia.com.au
Have a great day,
Merran
Daily quiz answers: 1. Lewes. 2. Behaviour. 3. Baby buggy. 4. Italy. 5. A barrel