Your afternoon Briefing: Former Zimbabwean strongman Robert Mugabe dies

Robert Mugabe dies aged 95 and Queensland’s Deputy Premier Jackie Trad is stripped of infrastructure role after escaping a corruption probe.

Queensland’s embattled Deputy Premier Jackie Trad admits she’s made a mistake after escaping watchdog probe, and former leader of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, dies aged 95.

(FILES) In this file photo taken on July 29, 2018, former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe addresses media during a surprise press conference at his residence "Blue Roof " in Harare, on the eve of the country's first election since he was ousted from office last year. - Zimbabwe ex-president Mugabe has died in Singapore. (Photo by Jekesai NJIKIZANA / AFP)

Former Zimbabwe strongman Mugabe dead

The schoolteacher-turned-guerrilla fighter who helped topple white colonial rule in Zimbabwe only to lead the country to the brink of economic ruin, has died.

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Screen grabs from the arrest of Tanya Day. Supplied

‘We want the world to know’

The family of Tanya Day, an Aboriginal woman who died from head injuries suffered while in a Victorian police cell, have been granted their request to have footage of her time in custody released by a coroner. WARNING: Distressing footage.

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Queensland Deputy Premier Jackie Trad speaks during a press conference at Parliament house in Brisbane, Friday, September 6, 2019. Queensland Deputy Premier Jackie Trad will not be investigated by the state's corruption watchdog over a controversial investment property purchase in Brisbane, which she failed to properly declare (AAP Image/Jono Searle) NO ARCHIVING

Premier strips Trad of role

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk will strip her Deputy Premier Jackie Trad of her responsibility for the state’s biggest infrastructure project after the corruption watchdog found she failed to declare an investment property.

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Scientist Peter Ridd questions the science behind Great Barrier Reef legislation.

Uni to pay sacked Ridd $1.2m

James Cook University is to pay Peter Ridd $1.2m for unlawfully dismissing him over criticism of its climate change science.

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The last known photo of William.

Foster parents’s tracking fears’

William Tyrrell’s foster parents asked detectives to check their car for tracking devices, concerned that somebody had followed them from Sydney to the sleepy village of Kendall with the aim of kidnapping the boy.

Episode 8 of Nowhere Child is out today: What exactly have police been doing for the nearly five years William has been missing? We look at some of the scenarios and some of the stings.

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kaila murnain and sam dastyari

Murnain ‘lied’ over lawyer meeting

Suspended NSW Labor boss Kaila Murnain again faced questions over calls with party lawyer, Sam Dastyari.

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