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Qantas' first class ticket offer seemed too good to be true...and thanks to a ticketing error, it was. Photo: WILLIAM WEST/AFP
Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to talk about the massive protest by construction workers angry at the federal Labor government and in support of a controversial union forced into administration over alleged links to organised crime.
A cap has been introduced to the number of foreign students that Australian universities can take, leaving the institutions fearful for their budgets.
Qantas accidentally sold 300 first-class airfares at $15 percent of their regular price - but it wasn't too embarrassed to claw the seats back.
And organisers of Canberra's spring flower festival are in a panic over unseasonably warm weather has seen a stack of blooms emerge early.
Karen Middleton is Political Editor of the Guardian Australia.