Your afternoon Briefing: McManus prepares for Setka showdown

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

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

ACTU secretary Sally McManus plans to meet with CFMEU secretary John Setka tomorrow.

McManus prepares for Setka showdown

John Setka says he won’t quit despite planning to plead guilty in court, as Sally McManus prepares to meet the union boss.

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Free speech is over

The battle is lost, writes Janet Albrechtsen, thanks to everyone from human rights commissioners to university vice-chancellors using crafty words in laws and other instruments to curb our most fundamental right to speak freely.

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Chris Minns speaking at the first candidates’ debate against Jodi McKay ahead of the upcoming NSW Labor Leader ballot. Held at the Trades Hall Auditorium in Sydney. Picture: Jonathan Ng

Dirty tricks fear in Labor contest

NSW Labor leadership hopeful Chris Minns dismisses reports he took $5000 from a man with Communist Party ties.

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Dover responsible manager and owner Terry McMaster leaves the Federal Court with the aid of paramedics after collapsing while being questioned during the Banking Royal Commission in Melbourne, Thursday, April 26, 2018. The head of a financial advice firm has collapsed in the stand at the banking royal commission after begin accused of lying. (AAP Image/Stefan Postles) NO ARCHIVING

ASIC targets fallen planner

The corporate regulator takes civil action against the man who collapsed at the Hayne commission.

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Barcelona star Lionel Messi was the world's highest-paid athlete over the past year, beating out Floyd Mayweather. Picture: AFP

World’s highest-paid athletes revealed

The man who topped the rankings in four of the past seven years couldn’t crack the top 100.