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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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COMMENTGraham Richardson

We need to talk about sugar

As an election approaches there will be a conspiracy of silence of what to do about the biggest single reason we get sick.

Graham Richardson

State Politics

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk officially opens the FareShare Charity Kitchen, Morningside. Photographer: Liam Kidston.

Premier defiant on ‘threat’ probe

Annastacia Palaszczuk resists calls to stand aside while parliament’s ethics committee considers allegations of intimidation.

Jared Owens

News

Mariners Usain Bolt reacts after missing a shot at goal during the Central Coast Mariners v Macarthur South West United pre-season match at Campbelltown Stadium, Sydney. Picture: Brett Costello

Bolt did not do nearly enough

If this is the trial that makes or breaks his dream of earning a contract as a professional footballer, then time could be up on Usain Bolt.

Ray Gatt

Wall Street Journal

ESCAPE: Business class feature by Amanda Woods. June 23. iStockbusiness class Seat with champagne waiting for a Passenger

Your case for flying business

Corporate travel departments are getting less stingy with travel perks for employees who travel constantly — at least for now.

Scott McCartney

Health and Science

12/10/2018 Meeting with Minister for Health and Wellbeing, Stephen Wade and unions to discuss ED overcrowding and industrial action at SA Health. Picture MATT TURNER.

Crisis talks over industrial action

The nurses’ union says it will press ahead with industrial action in Adelaide despite the government referring it to the state’s employment tribunal.

Luke Griffiths

Defence

Guided missile frigate (FFG) HMAS Melbourne (05) sails off the south coast of New South Wales.

Warship sent to East China Sea

An Australian guided missile frigate has been sent to the East China Sea to help enforce sanctions against North Korea.

Rory Callinan

The World

Russia's Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft carrying the members of the International Space Station (ISS) expedition 57/58, Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Nick Hague, blasts off to the ISS from the launch pad at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Baikonur on October 11, 2018. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)

Astronauts cheat mid-air death

Booster rockets carrying a Soyuz spacecraft with two astronauts on board bound for the ISS failed in mid-air.

National Affairs

Alex Turnbull, son of former PM Malcolm Turnbull has released a video on YouTube where he declares voters should not vote liberal in the seat of Wentworth

Turnbull ‘doesn’t agree with son’

The PM says Malcolm Turnbull is supporting the Liberal Wentworth candidate despite Alex Turnbull calling for a vote against him | WATCH

Andrew Clennell

Broadcast

Paul Higgins‏@PaulHigginsIt’s unbelievable! @HendoABC has his last bulletin after 27 years behind the desk killed by technology! But fear not. Another chance to farewell him tomorrow night. Why can you do?! @abcnews Ian Henderson

ABC glitches ruin farewell

Technical glitches in an ABC broadcast have robbed retiring newsreader Ian Henderson of his farewell bulletin.

Elias Visontay

Media

Prime Minister Scott Morrison addresses the Melbourne Institute Economic and Social Outlook Conference in Melbourne, Thursday, October 11, 2018. (AAP Image/David Crosling) NO ARCHIVING

Morrison slams Fairfax claims

The PM says a report on religious freedom actually focused on the interests of the child, and he’s surprised so many bought Fairfax’s line.

Sid Maher

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