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One Australia's greatest singer-songwriters Richard Clapton is celebrating the 50th anniversary of his debut album by Prussian Blue by re-releasing it along with Goodbye Tiger and The Great Escape. 

He'll take to the State Theatre stage on August 31 for a performance of his greatest hits. Ahead of the performance, he dropped by the RN Breakfast studio to share some stories and reveal the truth behind his hit 'Girls on the Avenue'.

Guest: Richard Clapton

Peter Dutton has put forward a plan to cut net migration to a maximum 160,000 people, arguing current flows of people to Australia are putting too much pressure on housing and infrastructure.

The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry is one of those groups concerned, it says chronic skills shortages in some sectors make a cut of that magnitude unrealistic.

Guest: Andrew McKellar, Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Police in the Northern Territory have been given major new powers to call snap, three-day curfews, after last month's ban on children entering the Alice Springs CBD.

The Territory's police commissioner will be able to call a curfew if they believe there's a risk of "public disorder" - but lawyers and children's advocates have raised the alarm, warning the law will undermine civil liberties and lead to discrimination.

Guest: Shahleena Musk, NT Children's Commissioner

Breathtaking auroras lit up our night skies last week, but if those solar storms were a little stronger they could wipe out all of our communication systems.

To offset that risk 'training camps' are being held in Adelaide today to prepare Australia for a solar storm. 

Guest:Joe Buffone, Deputy Coordinator-General, National Emergency Management Authority

Yesterday Telstra announced it will axe up to 2800 jobs by the end of the year as part of an ambitious cost-saving measure to improve productivity and connectivity for customers across the country.

But Telstra workers say they were completely blindsided by the announcement, and should have been asked to the table long before the axe fell.

Guest: James Perkins, Communications Workers Union Divisional Assistant Secretary (Telecommunications)

The International Criminal Court's prosecutors requesting arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the leader of Hamas - there have been pretty different reactions between the Coalition and the Government.

How is that likely to play out with the public?

The chief political correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age David Crowe joins RN Breakfast to discuss the latest developments in federal politics.

Guest: David Crowe