Your afternoon Briefing: Labor guns lead poll post-mortem

Your 2-minute digest of the day’s top stories.

Hello readers. A Gillard government cabinet minister and Jay Weatherill will head a wide-ranging review of Labor’s disastrous election loss, and actor John Jarratt has been found not guilty of rape.

 

Labor big guns lead poll post-mortem

Former Gillard government cabinet minister Craig Emerson will join former South Australian premier Jay Weatherill in leading an internal inquiry into Labor’s disastrous loss in the May 18 federal election.

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John Jarratt not guilty of rape

“No man should go through what I have gone through,” said Wolf Creek star John Jarratt after being found not guilty of raping his housemate 40 years ago.

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Fun police should drink up and shut up

Dry July brings out the health police quoting statistics that make responsible alcohol consumption as dangerous as injecting heroin into your eyeball, writes Jack the Insider.

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‘I’m OK, happy to be back’

Alek Sigley says he intends to return to “normal life” after more than a week in detention in North Korea but has offered no insight into why he fell foul of authorities in Pyongyang.

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Greens label Adani ‘corrupt’

Greens senator Jordon Steele-John calls the Adani Carmichael project a “corrupt mine”, despite no proof of any wrongdoing.

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Royal Marine patrol vessel is seen beside the Grace 1 super tanker in the British territory of Gibraltar, Thursday, July 4, 2019. Authorities in Gibraltar said they intercepted Thursday an Iranian supertanker believed to be breaching European Union sanctions by carrying a shipment of Tehran's crude oil to war-ravaged Syria. (AP Photo/Marcos Moreno)

Commandos seize Iran ship

A diplomatic row has erupted between the UK and Tehran after Royal Marines boarded an Iranian oil tanker.