Your afternoon Briefing: Allianz Stadium demolition given go-ahead

Good afternoon, readers. Allianz Stadium demolition gets green light and far right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos banned from Australia.

Good afternoon, readers. Attempts to delay the demolition of Allianz Stadium have failed and Milo Yiannopoulos is set to be banned from Australia.

Work has stopped on the redevelopment of the Sydney Football Stadium. Picture: Jonathan Ng

Allianz Stadium demolition gets green light

Demolition of Allianz Stadium has been given the go-ahead, after a ruling in the NSW Land and Environment Court.

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British alt-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos speaks during an event at Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday, December 5, 2017. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Milo Yiannopoulos ‘banned’

Far right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos is set to be banned from Australia, and One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has demanded Scott Morrison’s government intervene.

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TOPSHOT - Cardinal George Pell (C) makes his way to the court in Melbourne on February 27, 2019. - Cardinal George Pell arrived in court, possibly for the last time as a free man, in a last-ditch push to apply for bail after his historic conviction for child sex crimes. (Photo by Con CHRONIS / AFP)

Pell learns appeal hearing dates

The Court of Appeal has listed Cardinal George Pell’s application for leave to appeal against his child sex abuse conviction.

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Rosemary Rogers and (inset) the Williamstown property.

NAB staffer’s $3.8m swindle

To secure $40 million of NAB contracts, Helen Rosamond bought former NAB chief Rosemary Rogers a house, BMW, and paid for luxury renovations.

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A diagram showing the precatalytic and catalytic processes around converting carbon dioxide into coal.

‘Alchemy’ turns CO2 into coal

Australian scientists have found a way to “rewind the emissions clock” in a breakthrough that could transform thoughts on carbon sequestration.