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(The Guardian Indonesia)

Scott Morrison and his ministers continue their attempts to allay Indonesia of its fears of Australia moving its embassy to Jerusalem. Follow all the days events, live 12.35am GMT You may remember Alan Staines from a little bit ago - he left parliament house with a plan to walk to Sydney to raise awareness about Australia´s suicide rate.He´s almost there.An 86-year-old man is walking the 320km journey from Canberra to Sydney to raise awareness and support Australians affected by suicide. https://t.co/k2Y8Kro5rY 12.31am GMT The Labour Force figures are out - no change.The unemployment rates remains steady at 5% 12.23am GMT The government´s foreign donation ban bill will pass the Senate after the shadow minister of state, Don Farrell, confirmed on Thursday morning that Labor will support the bill.Farrell takes the debate back to Labor´s attempts two years ago to ban foreign donations, and it´s decision six months ago to refuse to accept them.I hope to see the swift passage of this legislation today. And I call on the prime minister to tell Liberal party to stop taking foreign donations ... The opposition will be supporting this legislation with the lengthy and various amendments we have requested subsequently listed by the government. 12.18am GMT One year ago today: 12.15am GMT Our man in Washington is keeping busy:A nice catch up and a laugh with the Presidents before their sit down discussion in NY. Both are terrific human beings ( and good golfers). #billclinton #georgewbush #newyork @... https://t.co/OYm433lpmF 11.46pm GMT Bilateral discussions between Australia and New Zealand have been unable to progress talks owing to a swath of thorny issues.New Zealand´s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, headed to Singapore this week with promises to raise the deportation of New Zealand citizens with her Australian counterpart, and to discuss the Nauru refugee impasse. 11.37pm GMT A very big thank you to the Senate secret squirrels who have pointed out just who will be miss ...