Your afternoon Briefing: Pyne set to quit politics at election

Your two-minute digest of the day’s top stories on an eventful Friday afternoon.

Your two-minute digest of the day’s top stories on an eventful Friday afternoon.

Minister for Defence Christopher Pyne makes an announcement at Naval Group Australia in Adelaide, Monday, February 25, 2019. (AAP Image/Kelly Barnes) NO ARCHIVING

Pyne set to quit politics at election

Defence Minister Christopher Pyne will not recontest his South Australian seat of Sturt at the next election, set to formally announce his decision tomorrow.

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Nicola Gobbo, who represented Carl Williams, Tony Mokbel, Justin Gatto and Alphonse Gangitano, is Lawyer X. Picture: Isabel Trujillo

Lawyer X’s identity revealed

Nicola Gobbo, a gangland barrister turned “super mummy’’, will be the star witness at a royal commission into police informants.

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06/11/2017. Veteran journalist Mike Willesee, photographed at his home in Coogee in Sydney's South. He is about to release his book, Memoirs by Mike Willesee, published by Pan Macmillan Australia. Britta Campion / The Australian

Mike Willesee dies

Veteran TV journalist Mike Willesee has died after a long battle with throat cancer.

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The Eureka Stockade pool in Ballarat.

Pell accuser’s sister speaks out

The sister of a man whose “swimming pool’’ child sex abuse case against George Pell was abandoned this week has spoken out for the first time.