23 Aug 2017
Australia correspondent Peter Munro
The Australian federal government has stripped a second local council of its power to hold citizenship ceremonies, after it sought to dump Australia Day formalities. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has taken a battering after recent turmoil over the citizenship of key ministers, with the latest national poll putting it eight points behind the Opposition. And a new counter-terrorism strategy to prevent vehicle attacks such as those in Barcelona, Nice and London, has been unveiled.