Your afternoon Briefing: Baby was ‘sacrificed’ by family

Good afternoon, readers. A baby found on a beach was “sacrificed”, and the UN environmental chief has quit after claiming $500k in expenses.

Good afternoon, readers. A nine-month-old baby found dead on a Gold Coast beach was “sacrificed” by her family, and the UN environmental chief has quit after an audit found he’d claimed $500k in travel expenses.

Police at the scene where a Baby body was found on Gold Coast beach - Photo Supplied CH 7

Family ‘sacrificed’ baby girl

The family of a nine-month-old baby girl whose body washed ashore on a Gold Coast beach “sacrificed” the child, police say.

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Shane Warne is in Hobart to promote his new book. Picture: LUKE BOWDEN

Warne calls for Hick’s head

Shane Warne believes Ricky Ponting is among those who should replace Australia’s under-siege batting coach Graeme Hick.

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TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump delivers remarks at a Make America Great Again rally in Fort Wayne, Indiana on November 5, 2018. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)

Make America anything but this

What elected Donald Trump, and what sustains him, is not his charisma, his ideas and no, not even the wretched campaign run by Hillary Clinton, writes Joseph Epstein. He was chosen as a rebuke to the progressivism that has made life in America seem chaotic, if not a touch mad.

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 2, 2018 United Nations Under-Secretary-General for environment Erik Solheim speaks during the opening debate of the 2018 edition of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) public forum on sustainable trade at the WTO headquarters in Geneva. - UN environment chief Erik Solheim resigned on November 20, 2018 after an audit questioning his huge travel expenses triggered an outcry, UN officials said.The former environment minister of Norway had been at the helm of the Nairobi-based UN Environment Programme (UNEP) since June 2016. A UN audit found that Solheim had spent nearly $500,000 on travel and that he claimed unjustified expenses at a time when the world body is struggling with shrinking budgets. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

Frequent flyers sink climate chief

UN environmental chief, Erik Solheim has quit after an audit found he’d claimed $500k in travel expenses in under two years. Meanwhile, the CEO of the controversial new Northern Beaches hospital, which opened this month, has resigned.