Your afternoon Briefing: Kim ‘willing’ to denuclearise

Your two-minute digest of the day’s top stories.

Your two-minute digest of the day’s top stories.

President Donald Trump meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019, in Hanoi. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Kim ‘willing’ to denuclearise

Kim Jong-un says he wouldn’t be at his second summit with US President Donald Trump if he wasn’t willing to denuclearise.

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28/02/2019: Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced Ita Buttrose's appointment as the new ABC chair. PIC: Adam Taylor

Ita ‘should have been on shortlist’

Former ABC chair David Hill has applauded Ita Buttrose’s appointment, appalled a woman wasn’t on the all-male short-list.

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Someone wearing red sneakers choosing between genders

The Mocker: Higher education captured by noisy ideologues

You’re in a compulsory induction that asserts gender is a social construct. Disputing this amounts is ‘hate speech’. Any problems so far?

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21/8/18: Ian Malouf at Rose Bay Marina in Sydney. He has sold his Dial a Dump waste business for $577 million today to Bingo Industries and is going to run a superyacht charter platform business called Ahoy Club. John Feder/The Australian.

‘This one is worth celebrating’

A jubilant Ian Malouf is ready to party after the $577m sale of a business he started as one man and a truck back in 1984.