billion of that to fully fund the NDIS, dental, and other such committments and have $1.2 billion in change that could be used for the surplus. New Zealand relies on us for defence and we can do same with the US. A high-ranking Australian embassy official had a secret affair with a Vietnamese spy colonel accused of receiving up to $20 million in suspected bribes from a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Australia. Police are investigating a string of top Australian horse-racing figures, including champion jockey Danny Nikolic (pictured), for alleged race fixing in what is shaping as the biggest corruption scandal to hit the sport in decades.