Good morning. In an ABC exclusive, United Petroleum servo franchisees say some staff have been paid as little as $10 an hour - and management knew. The company denies the claim. It's estimated 2000 people are now protesting outside Budapest's international train station as Italy, Germany and France call for an EU-wide asylum overhaul. And one of the men who overpowered an attacker on a French train last month will appear on Dancing With The Stars in the US. He'll be joined by Bindi Irwin.
Coming up today: from 8.00am AEST, Julie Bishop speaks to AM (listen live or later via the ABC radio app for iOS or Android). At 11.30am AEST, the ABS releases retail trade figires for July. Also at 11.30am AEST, Tony Abbott is due to launch an apprenticeships network. At 12.00pm AEST, China begins its Victory Day military parade in the heart of Beijing. At 5.30pm AEST, accused Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda is due to address his war crimes trial in The Hague. And at 7.55pm AEST, Defence Force chief Mark Biskin gives a speech on regional security.
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People who have attempted suicide describe the treatment they received from medical staff as "negative, angry and irritated", according to a new report, raising concerns some patients are not getting proper care.
Defence personnel and surviving families demand changes to the military compensation scheme in response to growing evidence of the links between fuel exposure and blood cancers.
Tensions in Hungary between asylum seekers and police remain tense for the second day as hundreds of mainly young men face off against police blocking their path into Budapest's main international train station.
Rebekah Brooks, the Rupert Murdoch employee cleared last year of overseeing widespread phone-hacking by her reporters for tabloid scoops, returns to her old job running News Corp's British newspaper arm next week.
Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda gave "orders to attack and kill" hundreds of victims in a campaign of terror but he denies all 18 charges against him.
For the second time this year, a young woman is rushed to hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest at The Cosmetic Institute, one of Australia's most popular cosmetic surgery clinics.
The fingerprints of a foreign man arrested over last month's deadly Bangkok blast match those found on bomb-making equipment discovered at a flat over the weekend, Thai police say.
The former boyfriend of Tasmanian woman Lucille Butterworth dug with his bare hands at a riverside site after receiving a hoax letter telling him where her body was buried, a coronial inquest hears.
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