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Going on the offensive on the border has not helped PM Scott Morrison's government - the latest Newspoll published by The Australian on Sunday night shows Labor still ahead on the two party preferred measure 53 percent to 47 percent.  This would seem to back up a Guardian Essential poll which came out in the wake of the final report of the banking royal commission suggesting a preference for Labor of 55 percent to 45 percent for the coalition. However, a recent Ipsos poll suggested Labor's lead had narrowed, showing the opposition's lead over the Lib-Nats at 51-49 - down from 54-46 a month earlier.

Wrapping up the Vatican sex abuse conference, Pope Francis called for an "all-out battle" on clerical sex abuse, calling the guilty parties who had abused children "instruments of Satan" and "ravenous wolves".  Unfortunately, the call didn't contain a lot of specifics actions the Roman Catholic Church would take to end to it's long history of covering up the scandal from the parishes to the archdioceses, all the way up to the top.  Francis said these cover-ups were incompatible with the Church's "moral authority and ethical credibility".  That did little to placate advocates for the abused:  "He talked about prayer and penance," said Vicki Ianni of the Survivors' Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP), "While those are nice sentiments, none of those things are going to protect children right now.  And that's my number one concern as a victim of clergy abuse."

The African Union is set to reject the European Union's plans to process asylum seekers at "regional disembarkation centers" on the African continent.  The AU position will be that these would create "de facto 'detention' centers" which would breach international law and trample over the rights of those being held.  The EU already has one such center in Libya, where 20,000 people are detained among allegations of multiple and grave human rights abuses by local authorities.  A senior AU official says, "African capitals worry that this plan will see the establishment of something like modern-day slave markets, with the 'best' Africans being allowed into Europe and the rest tossed back - and it is not far from the truth."

British Prime Minister Theresa May says Parliament will have a final vote on her Brexit plan on 12 March, just over two weeks before the 29 March date of the UK's divorce from the continental union.  She claims that talks with EU officials to secure an orderly transition are "ongoing", but there is no progress whatsoever to report.  UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn accuses her of "recklessly running down the clock" "force MPs to choose between her bad deal and a disastrous no deal".

Watching the UK careening towards a disaster which would spread fallout on his own continent, senior EU officials are secretly exploring a plan to delay the Brexit until 2021.  "If leaders see any purpose in extending, which is not a certainty given the situation in the UK, they will not do a rolling cliff-edge but go long to ensure a decent period to solve the outstanding issues or batten down the hatches,” one EU diplomat told The Guardian.  Changing the 21-month transition into a 21-month extension will give leaders more time to work out details, such as the Irish border issue.

Bangladeshi special forces shot and killed an armed airline passenger suspected of attempting to hijack a flight from Chittagong to Dubai.  None of the 148 passengers and crew on board the Biman Bangladesh Airlines Flight BG147 were harmed.  "We tried to arrest him or get him to surrender but he refused and then we shot him," said Major General Motiur Rahman.