Your afternoon Briefing: Albanese flags tax cut showdown

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Labor leader contender and member for Grayndler Anthony Albanese speaks to the media in Sydney, Thursday, May 23, 2019. Mr Albanese is currently running unopposed for the Labor leadership after Jim Chalmers announced he would not run. (AAP Image/Dean Lewins) NO ARCHIVING

Albanese flags tax cut showdown

The likely Labor leader has called on the PM to split his income tax cut package, at odds with Treasurer Josh Frydenberg. Follow the latest in our live blog, PoliticsNow.

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Lucas Dow CEO of the Adani Mine at the Tower of Power.Pic Annette Dew

Adani chief ‘emboldened’ after meeting

Lucas Dow says a meeting with senior Palaszczuk government bureaucrats was a “positive step”.

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Prime Minister Scott Morrison (left) and his 'friends' (clockwise from top left) Kristina Keneally, GetUp volunteers in Warringah, Peter FitzSimons, Zali Steggall, Malcolm Turnbull, Chris Bowen, Rob Oakeshott and Kevin Rudd and Bill Shorten.

A little help from his friends

After an against the odds election victory, it’s only right that Scott Morrison pay tribute to the outspoken Australians who made it all possible, suggests The Mocker.

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Businespeople at panel discussion in board room

Women’s workplace cold war

Women apparently have a new foe that makes them less clever than male colleagues.

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