Your afternoon briefing: Two Australians killed in Sri Lanka blasts

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Hello readers. Happy Easter. Two Australians have been killed in the Sri Lanka bomb blasts, and Scott Morrison attacks ‘grubs’ for Nazi worship slur.

Security personnel inspect the interior of St Sebastian's Church in Negombo on April 22, 2019, a day after the church was hit in series of bomb blasts targeting churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka. - At least 290 are now known to have died in a series of bomb blasts that tore through churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka, in the worst violence to hit the island since its devastating civil war ended a decade ago. (Photo by Jewel SAMAD / AFP)

Two Aussies killed in blasts

Two Australians have been killed in the Sri Lanka bomb blasts and another two have been injured.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed the deaths, as the number of people believed to be killed in the attacks has risen to at least 290.

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Prime Minister Scott Morrison and wife Jenny sing during an Easter Sunday service at his Horizon Church at Sutherland in Sydney, Sunday, April 21, 2019. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Morrison attacks ‘grubs’ for Nazi worship slur

Scott Morrison has taken a dramatic swipe at the “grubs” who compared his praise in church at the weekend to a Nazi salute.

Responding to a question about anti-Adani protesters who said working for the mining giant is like working for the Nazis, the Prime Minister doubled down and accused them of “being keyboard warriors in their mother’s basement.” Keep up with the latest from the campaign trail in our live blog, PoliticsNow.

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16/04/2019 Julia Banks speaks to voters in the electorate of Flinders at the Dromana Community Hall.picture : David Geraghty / The Australian.

Banks bars former Liberal mentor

The heat of the federal election campaign has claimed one of Julia Banks’s longest political friendships, with the newly branded independent blocking former colleague and mentor Liberal senator Jane Hume on social media after a late night spat.

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Rabbits Eat Lettuce electronic music festival

Two found dead at festival

Two young festival goers have been found dead in a tent this morning at the Rabbits Eat Lettuce electronic music festival in rural south east Queensland.

The 24-year-old man and 22-year-old woman from the Sunshine Coast Hinterland could not be saved.

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Thai AirAsia X's A330-300 which will be operating Bangkok Brisbane flights from June.

Baby dies on AirAsia flight

The harrowing death of a two-month baby girl during a flight from Malaysia to Perth was described by a fellow passenger who tried to help the infant as “the most confronting situation one could possibly go through.”