Your afternoon Briefing: Guthrie considering action

Hello readers and welcome to your afternoon digest of today’s top stories.

Hello readers and welcome to your afternoon digest of the day’s top stories.

Managing Director of The ABC Michelle Guthrie during Senate Estimates at Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday, October 24, 2017. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Guthrie ‘considering action’

A “devastated’’ Michelle Guthrie says there was “no justification” for her dismissal and that she is considering her legal options. Chris Kenny, meantime, suggests those welcoming the removal of Michelle Guthrie as a long overdue shake-up of a delinquent ABC ought to think again.

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Tom Mitchell of the Hawks and partner Hannah Davis pose for a photo with the Leigh Matthews Trophy during the AFL Players' MVP Awards in Melbourne, Thursday, August 30, 2018. (AAP Image/Daniel Pockett) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Who will win the 2018 Brownlow Medal?

Tom Mitchell is the raging favourite to claim the AFL’s most coveted individual prize, but before the count begins later tonight all eyes will be on the red carpet at Melbourne’s Crown Palladium. Follow our live coverage throughout the night here.

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A fifth shark has been caught at Cid Harbour in the Whitsunday Islands.

‘This one’s a monster’

A fifth shark has been caught at Cid Harbour, the scene of two near-fatal shark attacks in the Whitsunday Islands as victim Justine Barwick speaks for the first time.

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GCB Col extra Gina Rinehart - file pic - at Longines Records Club, Kurrawa. Picture: Regina King (copyright restrictions apply 07 55322193). Pic for Peter & Regina Column GC Bulletin ONE TIME USE ONLY. Please speak to GC Bulletin Pic Editor for permission to use.

How the rich invest

Billionaire Gina Rinehart has pumped $US250m into what’s shaping as Britain’s biggest mining project in decades.