Your afternoon Briefing: Pauline Hanson slams PM’s preference deal

Good afternoon, readers. Pauline Hanson won’t sack her right-hand men after NRA sting and has slammed the PM for his preference deal.

Good afternoon, readers. Pauline Hanson spoke about the NRA funding sting and slammed Scott Morrison’s preference deal in an emotional press conference.

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson filmed insinuating Port Arthur conspiracy theoryCredit: AlJazeera

Hanson stands by ‘stitched up’ Ashby, Dickson

Pauline Hanson will stand by her right-hand men after they sought $20 million from the US gun lobby, and labelled Scott Morrison a “fool” for refusing to preference her above Labor.

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DATONG COUNTY, CHINA - JANUARY 31: (CHINA OUT) A farmer leads a cart walking past cooling towers of the coal-fired Datong County Thermal Power Plant on January 31, 2007 in Datong County of Qinghai Province, China. China has failed to make any headway with its efforts to protect the environment over the last three years as compared with other nations. A new government report ranks the country 100th on a list of 118 developing and developed countries in terms of "ecological modernization", the same ranking it held in 2004, according to the Modernization Report 2007 released by the Chinese Academy of Science. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)

Alarm over China coal plan

Plans by China to resume the construction of dozens of coal-fired plants could derail a broader global decline in the number of coal facilities under development, according to a study backed by US billionaire Michael Bloomberg.

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Mirror image ... New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and then-Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd address the United Nations General Assembly in 2018 and 2008 respectively.

She’s no Nobel Prize winner

Jacinda Ardern risks repeating the mistakes of Kevin Rudd, whose love of the world stage came at the cost of abrogating domestic responsibilities, writes The Mocker.

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Qantas inks deal with 10yo CEO

The schoolboy who wrote to Qantas CEO Alan Joyce asking for advice has landed a deal with the Flying Kangaroo.

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Treasurer Josh Frydenberg with Karen Chester the New Deputy Chair of Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

What’s the difference?

Almost half of all of us can’t tell tailored financial advice apart from marketing, according to new ASIC research.