Your afternoon Briefing: John Barilaro hits out at Barnaby Joyce

Good afternoon, readers. Barnaby Joyce told to shut up by NSW Nationals leader and Josh Frydenberg gives mortgage brokers respite.

Good afternoon, readers. Barnaby Joyce has been told to “shut up” and stop navel gazing, and Josh Frydenberg has walked away from his plan to ban mortgage broker trailing commissions.

Wimmera Field days 2019Barnaby Joyce opens the field days with Chris Bartlett president of the field days watching onPicture: ANDY ROGERS

‘Shut up’, NSW Nats leader tells Joyce

NSW Nationals leader John Barilaro has hit out at Barnaby Joyce, urging the federal party to stop navel gazing.

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12/03/19 Treasurer Josh Frydenberg at the Sir Robert Menzies lecture in Melbourne. Aaron Francis/The Australian

Reprieve for mortgage brokers

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has given mortgage brokers respite on a plan to ban trailing commissions by 2020, opting for a 2022 review instead.

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BHP has suspended all rail operations in Western Australia after a runaway train laden with iron ore travelled 92km with no one on board before it was deliberately derailed.The driver of the 2km-long BHP-operated train stepped out of the locomotive early on Monday to inspect an issue with one of its 268 wagons and it took off without him.

Brakes applied to wrong train

A BHP ground crew mistakenly applied emergency brakes to the wrong train in the lead-up to a costly derailment disaster, says an ATSB report.

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11/03/2019Louise Stewart at Peppermint Grove foreshore, Peppermint GrovePic Colin Murty The Australian

Lifelong Lib turns independent

Louise Stewart, a wealthy Perth businesswoman, will contest the safe seat of Curtin as a “socially progressive Liberal independent”.

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Schoolkids doing as they’re told

The Australian Education Union’s endorsement of students wagging school for Friday’s climate day strike proves how politically correct ideology rules classrooms, writes Kevin Donnelly.