Your afternoon Briefing: Scott Morrison ‘open to NZ refugee offer’

Good afternoon, readers. PM is open to New Zealand’s refugee offer on one condition and is the Indonesian free trade deal still on track?

Good afternoon, readers. Scott Morrison is open to New Zealand’s refugee resettlement offer on one condition and is the Indonesian free trade agreement deal still on track?

Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand speaks during the One Planet Summit at the Plaza Hotel on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 26, 2018. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

PM ‘open to NZ refugee offer’

Labor needs to support closing the “back door’’ if Scott Morrison accepts Jacinda Ardern’s offer to take Nauru refugees.

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Indonesian President Joko Widodo, delivers his address following signing ceremony with Vietnamese counterpart Tran Dai Quang (not in picture) at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi on September 11, 2018 at the sideline of the World Economic Forum on ASEAN. (Photo by Bullit Marquez / POOL / AFP)

Jakarta ‘informed’ over embassy

The bilateral free trade deal was not discussed in a recent exchange between Scott Morrison and Indonesian President Joko Widodo, despite other reports.

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Lauren_Southern touches down in Brisbane wearing 'It's okay to be white' T-shirt. Credit: Twitter

How a prank humiliated Coalition

It began as a Halloween college prank and was proudly worn as a T-shirt slogan by Lauren Southern. Who knew “it’s all okay to be white’’ would end up in the Australian Senate?

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Clive Mensink, the nephew of Clive Palmer, leaves the Supreme Court in Brisbane, Wednesday, April 20, 2016. Mr Mensink Mr Mensink has asked the court to issue an injunction preventing the Queensland Nickel administrators from appointing receivers to three other Palmer nickel companies who were in a joint venture with QN. (AAP Image/Dave Hunt) NO ARCHIVING

Fugitive to head Clive’s Titanic II

Clive Palmer’s fugitive nephew, Clive Mensink, who has been overseas since the collapse of Queensland Nickel in 2016, has a new job.

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Britain's Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex and his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex meet with 98 year-old Daphne Dunne during a meet the people walk at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, October 16, 2018. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are on a 3-week tour of Australia, New Zealand, Tonga, and Fiji and are in Sydney to launch the 2018 Invictus Games, an Olympic-style event for disabled and ill service people. (AAP Image/Benita Kolovos) NO ARCHIVING

‘Daphne, meet my Duchess’

As radiant royals Prince Harry and Meghan Markle shared their baby joy with Sydney, Harry introduced his wife to an old friend.

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TOPSHOT - Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt celebrates scoring a goal for A-League football club Central Coast Mariners in his first competitive start for the club against Macarthur South West United in Sydney on October 12, 2018. (Photo by PETER PARKS / AFP) / -- IMAGE RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - STRICTLY NO COMMERCIAL USE --

Mariners left as cuckolds

When the Central Coast Mariners woke up, rolled over and caught a glimpse of Usain Bolt disappearing out the door, they could be excused for feeling a little used, writes Wally Mason.