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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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Aviation

11/10/2018. Sir Richard Branson launching Virgin Australia's first meditation flight, and the introduction of new techniques for anxious flyers. Jane Dempster/The Australian.

‘I believe in quotas for women’

Richard Branson said he supported quotas for women in business positions… but how does the Virgin Australia board stack up?

Ean Higgins

Health

Pregnant woman silhouette drinking wine from glass in stop symbol vector illustration

Pregnancy warning for all alcohol

Pregnancy health warnings on packaged alcohol will become compulsory after progress stalled on a voluntary initiative.

Sean Parnell

The Nation

Doctor charged with ‘upskirting’

The director of a children’s emergency department at a Brisbane hospital has been charged with taking inappropriate pictures of women.

Mark Schliebs

The Nation

A motorist fills his car up with fuel from the petrol bowser at the United service station on Sheridan Street. PICTURE: BRENDAN RADKE

Qld petrol prices to go live

Queensland is about to become the third state to introduce real time petrol price tracking as record high prices hit the bowser.

Tom McKinnon

News

Billy Slater of the Storm off loads the ball as Cooper Cronk and Mitchell Aubusson of the Roosters close in to tackle during the 2018 NRL Grand Final between the Sydney Roosters and the Melbourne Storm at ANZ Stadium in Sydney, Sunday, September 30, 2018. (AAP Image/Dean Lewins) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Slater switches codes to AFL

The Melbourne Storm great, who ended his NRL career after the grand final, has taken a pivotal role at St Kilda.

Courtney Walsh

The Nation

Studio portrait of SX5389 Private William (Bill) Corey who served during the Second World War.'Reflections – Honouring Australian Second World War Veterans' is a project spanning from 2015 – 2017. During this time span 450 Australian Institute of Accredited Photographers from around Australia photographed 6,500 World War Two Veterans. This digital archive was gifted to the Australian War Memorial by the Australian Institute of Professional Photography (AIPP) in 2017.

Rat of Tobruk dies aged 101

He survived the siege of Tobruk and campaigns at El Alamein and in Papua New Guinea but one of the last Rats of Tobruk has died in Adelaide.

Elias Visontay

State Politics

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

Premier won’t declare position

Annastacia Palaszczuk has refused to reveal whether she will support her own government’s abortion legislation in parliament.

Jared Owens

Technology

Concept photo in high contrast black and white of hacker's single finger on keyboard

Australia’s cybersecurity problem

The majority of Australian organisations are having to deal with up to 5000 cyberattacks a day, according to a new report.

Supratim Adhikari

Turf

Pictured outside the Sydney Opera House are protesters.Picture: Christian Gilles

Molehill out of Everest protest

Loud boos erupted as The Everest’s projection began at the Opera House but 2000 protesters failed to disrupt it.

Elias Visontay

Companies

Businessman Clive Palmer looks on during a press conference outside the Supreme Court in Brisbane, Monday, September 17, 2018. Palmer has succeeded in his bid to have a Supreme Court Judge in Brisbane recused from an upcoming trial related to the 2016 collapse of Queensland Nickel. (AAP Image/Dave Hunt) NO ARCHIVING

Palmer drops counterclaim

Clive Palmer has withdrawn his $1.8 billion counterclaim against the liquidators of Queensland Nickel but says the matter isn’t over just yet.

Charlie Peel

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