Your afternoon Briefing: Legal advice may kill medivac bill

Good afternoon, readers. Legal advice warns the medivac bill is unconstitutional and former Westpac chief Gail Kelly quits DJs board.

Good afternoon, readers. Legal advice warns the medivac bill is unconstitutional and former Westpac chief Gail Kelly’s shock resignation from the company that owns David Jones.

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Medivac bill is ‘unconstitutional’

The government has received legal advice warning the medivac bill which passed the Senate can’t be considered by the Lower House. Keep up with the latest from parliament in our live blog, PoliticsNow.

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**EMBARGOED FOR THE DEAL**6/04/2017: Gail Kelly, former Chief Executive Officer of Westpac, photographed at the News Corp offices Surry Hills. Hollie Adams/The Australian

Gail Kelly quits DJs board

Former Westpac chief executive Gail Kelly has suddenly quit the board of the South African company that owns David Jones.

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Bill Shorten has been wounded by Kerryn Phelps and Richard Di Natale.

How two doctors exposed Bill

Kerryn Phelps and Richard Di Natale helped to strip bare Labor’s border policy weakness and inflict serious hit on Bill Shorten, writes Chris Kenny.

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Qantas' new Titanium Frequent Flyer credit card. picture: Supplied.

Frequent flyers are well grounded

With up to 30 million a year being earned by individual credit card holders, Qantas points are becoming Australia’s alternative currency.

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Bahraini football player Hakeem al-Araibi leaves the criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, Feb. 4, 2019. The soccer player who has refugee status in Australia told a Thai court Monday that he refuses to be voluntarily extradited to Bahrain, which has asked for his return to serve a prison sentence for a crime he denies committing.(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Caught in a corrupt system

The case of Hakeem al-Araibi reveals a vexed security issue, writes Caroline Overington. What’s the point of having refugee status if the place of persecution can get you arrested and extradited anytime you cross a checkpoint?