Your afternoon Briefing: Adani hits back at controversial environmental report

Good afternoon, readers. Adani slams a controversial environmental report and Sonia Kruger “vilified” Muslim people on the Today show.

Good afternoon, readers. Adani has slammed a controversial environmental report threatening the Queensland mine and Sonia Kruger vilified Muslim people during a panel chat on immigration.

15/2/2019: PM Scott Morrison holds a press conference on the main road after he inspected the twisted and destroyed main railway line running between Mount Isa and Townsville with local mayors, which is surrounded by the rotting carcasses of dead cattle after floods sweep through the area earlier this week, just east of Julia Creek about 3 hrs east of Mount Isa. The railway line may be unusable for some time, with a huge amount of repair work to be done . Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

‘We are not going anywhere’

Adani has joined Scott Morrison in rejecting a controversial report that has a rare bird threatening the future of its giant Queensland mine project.

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Frame grab of Sonia Kruger and David Campbell talking to Lisa Wilkinson (off camera) about Muslims being stopped coming into Australia.Sonia Kruger wants Australia to close its borders to Muslims. Picture: Today

Kruger ‘vilified’ Muslims

Sonia Kruger “vilified” Muslim people on the Today show, but it wasn’t racial vilification because Muslims in Australia are not a “race”, a tribunal says.

A massive cargo ship with natural gas dwarfs a yacht in the Darwin Harbour as it departs from the Ichthys LNG Project at its onshore gas liquefaction plant in Darwin on Friday morning.Picture: Justin Kennedy

AGL LNG terminal steams ahead

AGL says it will press ahead with Australia’s first LNG import plant to help fill a forecast east coast gas supply squeeze.

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(FILES) This file photo taken on June 7, 2007 shows an Airbus A380 taking off on a demonstration flight from Sydney International Airport. - European aerospace giant Airbus said on February 14, 2019 it would end production of the A380 superjumbo, the double-decker jet which earned plaudits from passengers but failed to win over enough airlines to justify its massive costs. (Photo by TORSTEN BLACKWOOD / AFP)

Why the A380 was a big failure

When the super jumbo was rolled out, airports worried that the A380 was too big. That was the least of its problems.

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DEAL-20190215 DEAL 15 FEB 2019 FEE APPLIESNEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 19: Michael Ovitz attends the 2018 Museum of Modern Art Film Benefit: A Tribute To Martin Scorsese at Museum of Modern Art on November 19, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Noam Galai/FilmMagic) Pic : Getty Images

That Hollywood guy

Movie super agent turned Silicon Valley adviser, Michael Ovitz says the best lessons come from mistakes, not successes. As he describes his own career mistakes, Ovitz has no trouble calling out betrayals by former colleagues and friends.