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As Federal Parliament enters its final fortnight before rising for the winter break, the Government will be focusing on the Finkel review into Australia's energy market and the Gonski 2.0 education package. Independent Senator Nick Xenophon is agnostic towards the Finkel review, saying that he wants to see the modelling first. Speaking with AM's Sabra Lane, he is concerned that the Finkel review does not address gas prices and warns that many Australian companies will not be able to cope with fu

Australian customers are being warned about a looming shortage of orange juice and citrus fruit, with much of the best local product heading for lucrative Asian markets. Over the past decade, prices have been so low that citrus growers were forced to leave the fruit to rot and bulldoze their worthless trees. But growing demand from Asian consumers and a bacterial disease that has halved production in Florida and Brazil mean that demand for - and prices of - Australian fruit are set to rise.

The religious leader of Australia's oldest mosque has slammed acts of terrorism done in the name of Islam, describing the perpetrators as sick people in need of help. Imam Uzair Akbar from Brisbane's century-old Holland Park Mosque says some people have hijacked Islam and given it a sinister interpretation. He's used a Ramadan event to call for a unified approach to dealing with extremists, saying that shunning people doesn't work. The Imam has also issued an open invitation to critics of his fa