Your afternoon Briefing: Former defence adviser target of AFP raids

The AFP raided a former senior government adviser’s house, and the Aldi bag of cash from a NSW Labor fundraiser is in doubt.

The AFP raided a former senior government adviser’s house in Canberra, and doubts have been raised over Huang Xiangmo’s cash donation to NSW Labor.

Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers are seen leaving a house believed to be of a former government media adviser during a raid in Canberra, Wednesday, September 4, 2019. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Former defence adviser target of AFP raids

A former senior government adviser has been raided by AFP in Canberra, as police left his home with garbage bags full of evidence.

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Jiayi Huang, a staffer for former NSW Labor MP Ernest Wong appears at ICAC during a six-week inquiry into an alleged scheme by NSW Labor and Chinese donors to circumvent the state's electoral funding laws. Picture: Toby Zerna

Aldi bag of cash in doubt

An allegation Chinese property developer Huang Xiangmo was handed a “big bag of cash” filled with donations collected from other people at a NSW Labor fundraiser is under serious doubt with the suggestion there was no cash at the event.

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CFMMEU Secretary John Setka leaves the Melbourne Magistrate court with his wife Emma Walters. Wednesday, June 26. 2019. Picture: David Crosling

John Setka drives CFMEU officials out of HQ

CFMEU national secretary Michael O’Connor and officials of the union’s manufacturing division are moving out of the union’s Victorian head office because of mounting conflict with John Setka.

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Eddie McGuire mixes with fans (top right) and corporates (with Emirates' Australasia vice president Barry Brown, bottom left) at Collingwood's open training session today. Pictures: Stuart McEvoy and AAP

With Eddie McGuire, everything’s black and white

When Collingwood’s founding fathers gathered in the Grace Darling Hotel basement 130 years ago they could never have imagined life under Eddie McGuire.

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Nine Entertainment CEO Hugh Marks during a Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) Freedom of the Press inquiry in Sydney, Tuesday, August, 13, 2019. The heads of Australia's major media organisations are appearing before a parliamentary inquiry into press freedom and national security in Sydney.(AAP Image/Joel Carrett) NO ARCHIVING

Nine concedes hosting Liberal Party fundraiser was a ‘mistake’

The group executive editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age has told staff at the papers that Nine CEO Hugh Marks admitted hosting a Liberal fundraising evening was a “mistake”.