Your afternoon Briefing: Shorten, candidate at odds over Adani

Hello readers, here’s your two-minute digest of the day’s big stories.

Hello readers, here’s your two-minute digest of the day’s big stories.

Australian Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and local Labor candidate for Dawson Belinda Hassan are seen during an announcement at Harrup Park Country Club in Mackay, Tuesday, April 23, 2019. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Shorten, candidate at odds over Adani

Labor’s candidate for Dawson Belinda Hassan says a future Labor government may review the environmental approvals for the Adani coalmine, after Bill Shorten has spent two days refusing to rule a review out. Follow the latest from the campaign trail with our live blog, PoliticsNow.

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United Australia Party leader Clive Palmer.Picture: Shae Beplate.

Door open for Palmer deal

Scott Morrison has left open the prospect of potential preference deals with Clive Palmer and the United Australia Party.

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22/04/2019 Thom Carlyle-James, 21 at Melbourne University. He says that campus life is hostile to students with right wing politics, an atmosphere stoked by the regular presence of GetUp and socialist alternative, and tutors and lecturers who represent capitalist and liberal thinkers such as John Stuart Mill as "old racists".picture : David Geraghty / The Australian.

Uni silences ‘white males’

Tensions have flared at the University of Melbourne after a workshop suggested “white males” and those who look like “Liberal voters” be forbidden from speaking during classes in a bid to dismantle privilege.

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Rio Tinto unearths rare gem

Rio has dug up a rare octahedral-shaped diamond, one of the largest ever found at its Argyle mine.

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