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Questions around the position of the Northern Territory's police commissioner, Jamie Chalker, are expected to be resolved in the next week, the chief minister says.

Australian business figure Clive Palmer is suing the Australian government for almost A$300 billion in an international tribunal, having lost a case against the Western Australian government he took all the way to the High Court.

Billionaire Clive Palmer says any "future windfall" from a $300 billion claim against the federal government would help fund new hospitals in Western Australia.

Plus: why I’m not worried about a pope in a coat.

And he's hired Christian Porter to help him do it.

Billionaire claims commonwealth liable for WA law, which prevented him seeking compensation for rejected mining project

Catherine Holmes SC acknowledges role of social media in giving access to evidence while commending Guardian Australia and the Saturday Paper for their reporting

The robodebt royal commission hearings came to an end on Friday. Over the past four months, they have delivered a telling portrait of unaccountable government power.

A right-wing Christian conference has heard a call for Christians to ‘save the Liberal Party’ by ensuring conservative religious candidates ‘prevail’ in every branch, and Zachary Rolfe, who shot dead an Indigenous teenager, will be stood down from the NT Police Force. (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned…