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It's the moment every university student dreams of: donning the academic gown and walking on stage to collect their testamur after completing their degree. But the ANU's international student base has been left feeling like "cash cows" after the university's decision to scrap its traditional December graduation ceremonies. Sarah Lansdown reports that it's left many fearing a special family occasion won't happen. Connor Pearce has looked at the access the big four consultancies have to some of the nation's most secretive information. He finds quite a few have the highest level of unescorted access throughout the Department of Defence. In our regular Monday public service column Public Eye, Miriam Webber has been going through 127 pages of correspondence released about a new BBQ at the Australian embassy in Washington. And it's quite the expensive one. Parliament is back sitting, and Brittney Levinson writes that the federal government is confident its legislation to place the troubled Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union into administration will pass through the Senate later today. Eleanor Campbell reports that after much delay, a bill to establish an independent watchdog to sanction MPs, senators and staff who breach behavioural codes of conduct will be put forward this week, too. We're set for a cloudy day today, with only a 20 per cent chance of rain and likely some early fog. There's an expected top of 15 degrees. | 