Your afternoon Briefing: Melbourne jihad plot hoped for maximum casualties

Good afternoon, readers. Details of a Melbourne jihad plot revealed and Peter Dutton lashes out at new au pair allegations.

Good afternoon, readers. A Melbourne jihad plot was set to target disbelievers and Peter Dutton lashes out at new au pair allegations.

Pedestrians are are seen in wild weather outside Flinders Street Station in Melbourne, Sunday, June 17. 2018. (AAP Image/David Crosling) NO ARCHIVING

Violent jihad plot targeted ‘disbelievers’

Three Islamists who planned a Christmas terror spree in Melbourne hoped for maximum casualties, a court has heard.

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Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton at the2018 Five Country Ministerial Meeting at Surfers Hilton hotel on the Gold Coast. Picture Glenn hampson

Dutton ‘lobbied by AFL chief’ on au pair

Peter Dutton has lashed out over suggestions he intervened in an au pair’s visa troubles because of her connection to AFL boss Gillon McLachlan.

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Josh Frydenberg Bridget McKenzie family photo

Josh steps up for photo op

The new look ministry photo was pretty much like most family photos: a touch awkward, a jostle for the front row, a few sledges, and a familiar face missing.

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ABC 774 radio presenter Jon Faine at their Southbank studio in Melbourne.

Listeners tune out of ABC

Sweeping changes to the ABC schedule have remained unpopular with every metro station losing audiences, except in one city.

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Real Estate: 3 Baden Rd, Neutral Bay

Sydney mansion makes $35m wave

Former Woolworths boss Bill Wavish and wife Vonnie could break the house price record for Sydney’s lower north shore with their mansion sale.