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Argentina Los Pumas head coach Mario Ledesma looks on before a rugby championship match against New Zealand's All Blacks, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, July 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Inspirational Leali’ifano to return for Wallabies vs Pumas

By DENNIS PASSA - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, July 23, 2019, photo, Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, center, interjects during debate in Australia's Parliament House in Canberra. Australia is set to pass laws that would allow the government to prevent suspected extremists from returning home for up to two years.(AP Photo/Rod McGuirk)

Australian Parliament to ban extremists from coming home

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

East Timor parliament OKs sea border treaty with Australia

By OKI RAIMUNDOS - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, July 23, 2019, photo, Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, center, interjects during debate in Australia's Parliament House in Canberra. Australia is set to pass laws that would allow the government to prevent suspected extremists from returning home for up to two years.(AP Photo/Rod McGuirk)

Australia to ban extremists from coming home

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

United States' Katie Ledecky, reacts after he second place finish in the women's 400m freestyle final at the World Swimming Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, Sunday, July 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Katie Ledecky stunned by Ariarne Titmus in 400-meter freestyle at worlds

By Beth Harris - Associated Press

Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape, second from left, shakes hands with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, watched by their respective wives Rachael Marape, left, and Jenny Morrison after signing the visitors' book at Australia's Parliament House in Canberra Monday, July 22, 2019. Marape says his country's relationship with China in not open to discussion during his current visit to Australia. (AP Photograph/Rod McGuirk)

Papua New Guinea open to Chinese and Australian investors

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

CORRECTS NAME OF SPOKESMAN - In this image from video, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang speaks during a media briefing which he commented on investigations into Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun in Beijing Thursday, July 18, 2019. Yang who has been detained in Beijing since January was charged on Thursday and moved to a different detention center in the Chinese capital, his lawyer said. (AP Photo)

Australia ‘deeply disappointed’ China criminally detains man

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 27, 2019, photo, whistleblower supporters demonstrate outside the Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court in Canberra, Australia, where former army lawyer David William McBride appeared charged with leaking secret documents to Australian Broadcasting Corp. reporters alleging misconduct in Afghanistan. Australian Broadcasting Corp. Managing Director David Anderson says he had written to Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton calling for police to drop their investigation of two ABC reporters. (AP Photo/Rod McGuirk, File)

Broadcaster demands Australia police drop probe of reporters

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Indonesian custom officers show off the front of a foreign newspaper amoung waste found in a container at the Tanjung Perak port in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, Tuesday, July 9, 2019. Indonesia is sending dozens of containers of imported waste back to Western nations after finding it was contaminated with used diapers, plastic and other materials, adding to a growing backlash in Southeast Asia against being a dumping ground for the developed world's rubbish. (AP Photo)

Indonesia returning 57 containers of developed world’s waste

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Lawyer says China prevents Australian resident from leaving

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Australian student Alek Sigley, center, is escorted as he arrives at the airport in Tokyo on Thursday, July 4, 2019. The Australian student who vanished in North Korea more than a week ago arrived in Tokyo Thursday, July 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Australian freed in N. Korea keeps mum about detention

By EUGENE HOSHIKO and EMILY WANG - Associated Press

In this July 2, 2019, photo, independent senator Jacqui Lambie sits in the Senate on Tuesday, July 2, 2019, when Parliament sat for the first time since the May election. Lambie on Thursday, July 4, confirmed that she would vote for tax cuts, assuring the government of the single-seat majority the legislation needs in the upper chamber.(AP Photo/Rod McGuirk)

Australian Senate passes $110 billion tax cuts over decade

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by the Sigley family shows Alek Sigley. (Courtesy of the Sigley family via AP)

Alek Sigley, Australian student released in North Korea, says: ‘I’m OK’

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

Australia proposes to ban extremists’ return for 2 years

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

The Latest: Pradeep ruled out of World Cup with chickenpox

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FILE - In this June 5, 2019, file image made from video, Australia's Federal Police, top, enter the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster, during a raid on their offices in Sydney, Australia. Australia's three largest media organizations have joined forces to demand press freedom law reforms that would prevent journalists from risking prison for doing their job. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation via AP, File)

Whistleblower returns to Australian court over Afghan leak

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 5, 2019, file image made from video, Australia's Federal Police, top, enter the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster, during a raid on their offices in Sydney, Australia. Australia's three largest media organizations have joined forces to demand press freedom law reforms that would prevent journalists from risking prison for doing their job. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation via AP, File)

Australia media demand press freedom law reforms after raids

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Australia's Ashley Barty poses with the trophy after beating Germany's Julia Goerges during the final match of the Nature Valley Classic at Edgbaston Priory Club in Birmingham, England, Sunday June 23, 2019. (Tim Goode/PA via AP)

Tennis greats applaud Barty’s rise to No. 1

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In this image made from video, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison holds a press conference Monday, June 24, 2019, in Perth, Australia. Morrison says eight Australian offspring of two slain Islamic State group fighters have been removed from Syria in Australia’s first organized repatriation from the conflict zone. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation via AP)

Australia repatriating 8 youth from Islamic State families

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Norway's Ingrid Syrstad Engen celebrates after scoring in the penalty shoot-out of the Women's World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Norway and Australia at the Stade de Nice in Nice, France, Saturday, June 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Norway beats Australia on penalties to reach quarterfinals

By DANIELLA MATAR - Associated Press