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Brighette RyanWeekend Digital Editor

Brighette Ryan is The Australian’s digital night editor. She was previously Social Media Editor, leading the paper’s social media strategy across platforms including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Brighette has also worked as a producer for 2SM and as a social media producer for the Nine Network.

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‘Why were you hostile to ABC?’

Appearing on Q&A, Malcolm Turnbull says he is concerned about the deterioration in the quality of journalism at the ABC.

Greg Brown

State Politics

Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton at the memorial service at Prahran police station for the 30th anniversary of the tragic deaths of Constable Steven Tynan and Constable Damien Eyre. Picture: Nicole Garmston

‘Red Shirts’ probe in final stages

A Victorian fraud squad investigation into Labor’s misuse of MP staff allowances could wrap up after the election.

Samantha Hutchinson

commentWall Street Journal

FILE - In this June 12, 2018, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, right, stands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sentosa Island in Singapore. North Korea and the United States are trying to revive stalled diplomacy meant to rid the North of its nuclear weapons. There was much talk of the possibility of success following a meeting in June between Trump and Kim, but in the months since there has been little to quiet skeptics who believe the North will never give up weapons it has described as necessary to counter a hostile Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

This is a major blow to Trump

It wasn’t a blue wave but GOP losses will stymie the Trump Presidency.

WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD

COMMENTDavid Uren

Australia's Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, left, and Indonesia's Finance Minister Sri Mulyani comment after signing memorandums of understanding on Monday, Nov. 5, 2018, at the Australian Parliament House in Canberra, Australia. The memorandums update a framework for policy and technical exchanges between the two governments that have existed for 12 years. (AP Photo/Rod McGuirk)

Frydenberg’s signal to foreigners

The Treasurer has delivered two key messages to foreign companies thinking of investing in Australian infrastructure.

David Uren

National Affairs

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Foreign Minister Marise Payne watch on during Asia Society Australia's Asia Briefing Live conference, Sydney, Thursday, November 1, 2018. (AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts) NO ARCHIVING

‘End detention of Uighurs’

Australia has called on China to end the arbitrary detention of Uighurs ahead of Marise Payne’s visit to Beijing, human rights groups say.

Primrose Riordan

The Nation

CCTV of John Macris killing in Greece. Source: Kathimerini

CCTV captures hit on Macris

Shocking CCTV has been released of the assassination of notorious Sydney crime figure John Macris | WATCH

Elias Visontay

Q&A RECAPBroadcast

Fringe ‘amplified by internet’

Groups based on fringe ideas such as the alt-right and Incels are amplified by the internet, said Chuck Klosterman.

Elias Visontay

Legal Affairs

Professor Helen Rhoades was appointed as ALRC Commissioner from 1 October 2017 to lead the Review into the Family Law System. She was Acting President of the Australian Law Reform Commission between 31 October 2017 and 9 January 2018.Supplied

Family law review head quits

The head of the government’s sweeping review of the family law system has been forced to quit her role due to ill health.

Nicola Berkovic

News

Doug Tynan, the VGI director of a Sydney-based investment firm, posing outside the Rocklea Markets, Brisbane Markets Ltd, Brisbane, on Friday 29 June, 2018. (AAP Image/Steve Pohlner)

VGI Partners increases short

Hedge fund VGI Partners says it has beefed up its bet against Corporate Travel Management, increasing its short position by 23 per cent.

Ben Butler

Companies

BHP railway train locomotive carrying iron ore to Port Hedland. /Railways

BHP deliberately derails train

BHP has suspended all WA iron ore rail operations after a runaway 268-wagon train travelled 92km without a driver.

Matt Chambers

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