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Supermarkets have been put on notice over a practice known as 'shrinkflation', which is a practice that is rife in the industry and is when a product is downsized but the price remains the same or even increases. To combat the tactic - the government is now seeking to strengthen unit pricing codes, making price and volume labels more readable, prominent and comparable, and introduce new penalties for those supermarkets - doing the wrong thing.

Australia's Parliament has approved new laws that govern the operation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Minister Bill Shorten has also published a list that outlines what NDIS funding can and cannot be spent on from now on. But disability advocates say all of this has been "rapidly" developed with next to no engagement with the sector - and it might not even solve the problems it's supposed to address. In this episode of the Too Hard Basket, we take a closer look at what the changes are, and why disability groups are so concerned.

Two Royal Australian Air Force planes have landed in Cyprus, as the government prepares to evacuate Australian citizens from Beirut. Around 1700 Australians have told the Department of Foreign Affairs they want to leave Lebanon, as Israel’s incursion into the country’s south continues. Sydney mother Marie Shebl is one of them. She has booked a commercial flight on the 11th of October, but as fighting intensifies, she is worried she won’t make it out. Marie speaks with SBS Political Correspondent Sara Tomevska.