Your afternoon Briefing: Police surround siege site

Good afternoon, readers. Here is your two-minute digest of today’s latest stories and must-reads.

Good afternoon, readers. Here is your two-minute digest of today’s latest stories and must-reads.

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A Gunman is at large in Chaseley Apartments, a building on Coronation Drive, Auchenflower, Brisbane, on Monday December 3, 2018, (AAP Image/Steve Pohlner)

Police surround siege site

Two armed men are holed up in an inner-Brisbane apartment after firing on police who tried to enter their unit this morning.

Police have confirmed they are negotiating with the men, who fired a shot at Special Emergency Response Team (SERT) officers.

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Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull is seen leaving his residence in Point Piper, Sydney, Monday, December 3, 2018. Mr Turnbull has suggested Prime Minister Scott Morrison should go to an early federal election, saying it would help save NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian from defeat in a state poll. (AAP Image/Dean Lewins) NO ARCHIVING

Nightmare on Capital Hill

Malcolm Turnbull has dropped any pretence. He’s kissed goodbye to his promise not to be a “miserable ghost” and is now the Freddy Krueger of Australian politics.

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Labor Member for Lindsay Emma Husar during Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday, November 27, 2018. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Labor aren’t without fault: Husar

Rebel Labor MP Emma Husar has deliberately missed a vote on a motion instigated by her deputy leader Tanya Plibersek that reprimanded Scott Morrison for “only ever protecting the men in his party and abandoning its women”. Husar then dug her heels in further and took to Twitter to announce that she “was not elected to play politics.”

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Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong reacts after Minister for Finance Mathias Cormann successfully suspended standing orders in the Senate, and has won a vote to overturn a decision the Senate made on Thursday that the debate on the Sex Discrimination bill (to protect LGBT students) end, at Parliament House in Canberra, Monday, December 3, 2018. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Uproar as gay school vote delayed

The government has killed off the prospect of a vote on discrimination protection for gay school kids this year, sparking uproar in the Senate.

Government Senate Leader Mathias Cormann secured the tactical victory after gaining the support of the two Centre Alliance senators, Stirling Griff and Rex Patrick.

The move enraged Labor’s Senate leader Penny Wong, who shouted it was an “outrage” after being caught off-guard by the government’s tactics.

Keep up with the latest in our live blog, PoliticsNow.

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Malcolm Turnbull was left PM for too long.

He should’ve been axed earlier

The Liberal Party made a big mistake when it removed Malcolm Turnbull in August 2018.

To borrow Malcolm Turnbull’s own words, the Liberals simply left “his arse” for too long on the seat of the prime ministerial car, writes Dennis Shanahan.

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(FILES) This file picture taken on May 31, 2018 shows cars to be exported at a port in Lianyungang in China's eastern Jiangsu province. Simmering trade tensions between the world's top two economies are set to erupt into a full-blown trade war on July 6, 2018, with Washington poised to impose new tariffs on 34 billion USD in Chinese goods. / AFP PHOTO / - / China OUT / TO GO WITH AFP STORY CHINA-US-TRADE by Ryan MCMORROW

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Trump Signals China auto move

China has agreed to “reduce and remove” tariffs on US auto exports, US President Donald Trump has tweeted.

The announcement came after a weekend dinner between Mr. Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G-20 summit in Buenos Aires at which the US postponed its threat to increase tariffs on $US200 billion in Chinese goods to 25 per cent from 10 per cent.

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Pope Francis addresses the crowd from the window of the apostolic palace overlooking Saint Peter's square during his Sunday Angelus prayer on December 2, 2018. (Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP)

Pope tells gay priests to quit

Actively gay people should leave the Catholic clergy, says Pope Francis.

Francis is worried about the number of gay men joining the priesthood and fears that homosexuality is becoming “fashionable” in society, he told an interviewer.