Your afternoon Briefing: Labor’s worst Senate result in Queensland since WWII

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

Hello readers, here’s your two-minute digest of the day’s top stories.

New North Queensland senator Nita Green is given a hero's welcome at the Labor Party's post election party at the Reef Hotel Casino, Cairns. PICTURE: BRENDAN RADKE

Worst result in 70 years: Labor’s lone new senator

Meet the woman who is walking proof of Labor’s failures in Queensland: sole new ALP senator Nita Green.

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There has been tension between Jeff Kennett and Gillon McLachlin over the AFL crowd behaviour issue. Picture:

Kennett U-turn on ‘new arrivals’

Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett forced to apologise for comments regarding security after AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan accused him of racial stereotyping.

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Debt bomb

NSW debt is set to balloon to a record $39bn, putting pressure on the Berejiklian government to undertake further asset sales.

Australian Senator Cory Bernardi is seen during an election debate at the South Australian Press Club, Adelaide, Wednesday, May 8, 2019. (AAP Image/David Mariuz) NO ARCHIVING

Bernardi could rejoin Libs

Cory Bernardi opens the door to returning to the Liberal Party, a move which could give Scott Morrison a 36th senator.

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 3, 2017 an Apple employee demonstrates the app switcher on the iPhone X at the Apple Store Union Square, in San Francisco, California. - Apple is set to court software savants at its annual developers conference beginning June 3, 2019 while contending with criticism that the iPhone maker has made its App Store a walled garden.The App Store is the lone shop for content for Apple devices, with the technology giant deciding which software creations to accept and taking a 30 percent cut of financial transactions. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage / AFP)

Apple’s 5G iPhone is coming

The tech giant is late to the 5G party but there’s good news on the horizon.

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03/12/2015: Olivia Wirth; Head of Qantas marketing and communications, at Sydney's Qantas domestic terminal with staff Eduardo Bolton and Kelsey Donohue.Pic by James Croucher

Overhaul for frequent flyers

Qantas is giving its frequent flyer program a makeover in what it has called the biggest in 32 years.