Your afternoon Briefing: Labor senator Jacinta Collins won’t contest next election

Good afternoon, readers. Labor senator Jacinta Collins quits politics and the UK’s departure from the EU could be delayed until December.

Good afternoon, readers. Labor senator Jacinta Collins quits politics and Britain’s departure from the EU could be delayed until December.

The Senate Marriage Equality Bill was again addressed in the Senate Chamber at Parliament House in Canberra. Senators Jacinta Collins in the chamber.Picture Gary Ramage

Labor senator quits politics

Labor’s longest-serving female Victorian senator Jacinta Collins has announced she won’t contest the next election.

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A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May (C) making a statement in the House of Commons in London on January 15, 2019 directly after MPs rejected the government's Brexit deal. - Britain's parliament on Tuesday resoundingly rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal, triggering a no-confidence vote in her government and leaving the country on track to crash out of the EU. (Photo by Jessica TAYLOR / UK PARLIAMENT / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - NO USE FOR ENTERTAINMENT, SATIRICAL, ADVERTISING PURPOSES - MANDATORY CREDIT " AFP PHOTO / Jessica Taylor / UK Parliament"

MPs set to push leave date back

Britain’s departure from the EU could be delayed until the end of the year under a cross-party plan by MPs to seize control of the Brexit process.

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Australian Open Tennis. Day 3. Ash Barty vs Yafan Wang . Ash Barty during her straight sets win . Pic: Michael Klein

Barty’s play ‘Federer-esque’

An Australian tennis legend has given Ash Barty the ultimate compliment after she won through to the third round. In other Australian Open news, Will Swanton writes that Nick Kyrgios gets what he deserves. If his body keeps packing it in, it’s because he doesn’t do enough to keep it in shape.

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Deborah Hutton and former boyfriend

Hutton ex in ‘fake rapist’ plot

Former model Deborah Hutton’s ex-boyfriend staged a break-in at her home in a “bizarre” plot, a Sydney court has been told.

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12/09/2008. The Founding of Australia. By Capt. Arthur Phillip R.N. Sydney Cove, Jan. 26th 1788, a 1937 oil sketch by Algernon Talmage. Courtesy the State Library of NSW. Picture: Supplied

Childish reaction to protest

Scott Morrison’s attempts to quash dissent in the odd council over Australia Day ceremonies should be beneath a Prime Minister, writes Peter van Onselen.