Today's headlines include:

• ASIO director-general Mike Burgess has defended the spy agency’s actions ahead of the Bondi Terror Attack, when 15 people were killed during a beachside Hanukkah celebration.
• A coronial hearing in Victoria has heard new details about the deaths of two police officers shot dead by Dezi Freeman at his Porepunkah property last year. 
• Three Chinese astronauts – known in their home country as ‘taikonauts’ - have reached China’s space station, according to state media reports.
• The population of platypuses reintroduced to native parklands in Sydney's south has grown to 20 known individuals.

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