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Following the success of their number one Australia ARIA chart album 'Everything Is Bigger Than Me', the Pierce Brothers are travelling around the country for their huge eight-month tour.

The twins stopped by the RN Breakfast performance for a stripped-back performance of 'Hollow'. 

Guests: Jack and Patrick Pierce

If your neighbour installs a security camera pointing directly at your property - what are your legal rights?

The Law Report is running special series Bad Neighbours - and are peering over the fence at the disputes between residents. 

Guest: Damien Carrick, Law Report Host

A four-day NSW police blitz resulted in the arrests of 554 alleged perpetrators of domestic and family violence.

But while many have praised the crackdown, what does this approach mean for the system more broadly? Angela Lynch says while it's broadly positive, she does question why it was "accumulated all into one operation."

Guests: Angela Lynch, Sexual Violence and Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Advocate and the Executive Officer of the Queensland Sexual Assault Network

British writer Steven Knight - best known for creating Peaky Blinders, and Taboo - is behind the new series, This Town.Set in 1981 Birmingham, the series is about music and art, family and political terrorism.

Also out this week is a new British series called Insomnia.

Guest: Wenlei Ma, culture editor, The Nightly 




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Australia's foreign aid budget has fallen dramatically in the last 30 years, and in last week's federal budget, the government committed 0.19% of one-percent of its annual gross national income to foreign aid.

It was a small rise from last year, but despite it Australia still ranks as one of the lowest countries in the OECD.

Guest: Marc Purcell, CEO of the Australian Council for International Development

In the NRL, longtime Parramatta coach Brad Arthur has been given the sack, after a series of woeful results.

And Australia to be represented at the world barrel racing championships in Oklahoma. 

Sports commentator and RN Breakfast reporter, Scott Wales brings the latest news from the world of sport.