Your afternoon Briefing

Good afternoon, readers. Here’s what made news this Thursday.

Good afternoon, readers. Here’s what made news this Thursday.

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NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro speaks during a press conference alongside Premier Gladys Berejiklian at the official opening of the Sydney Startup Hub with the Microsoft Australia Managing Director Steven Worrall in Sydney, Wednesday, February 14, 2018. (AAP Image/Peter Rae) NO ARCHIVING

‘AGL has a conflict of interest’

Acting NSW Premier John Barilaro says he would “absolutely” support a government-led acquisition of the Liddell power station if AGL refuses to sell the coal-fired plant.

In an interview on Sky News this afternoon, Mr Barilaro said the government should move to forcibly acquire the station if the energy giant fails to finalise a deal.

Nurse Jacqueline McDowall has told the royal commission she will have to work until she is 80 and in “a wheelchair or a Zimmer frame” after being comprehensively ripped off by a Westpac financial planner who is still at the bank.

‘I never thought I’d be lied to’

Nurse Jacqueline McDowall paid tens of thousands to a Westpac planner for help on her retirement dream. His advice cost her dearly.

Ms McDowall told the banking royal commission she had expected a professional adviser from a big bank such as Westpac to tell the truth, but “all of the sudden they pull the rug from under your feet after they have gained all that money from you”.

“They’re not truthful,” she said.

“It’s all just to gain money for their side.

“To do that to their customers is absolutely and totally disgusting.”

Teen Vogue images of Yassmin Abdel-Magied. Source: Supplied

Yassmin blames priviledge

Controversial media personality Yassmin Abdel-Magied says she would have been treated differently by border security if she was a “straight white male” after she was denied entry to the US over an incorrect visa.

“I think it’s very different to go through something like that as a person who is accustomed to understanding their place in the world versus someone who has never known very real danger.” she said.

“If you are a person of privilege, a white straight male going through border security, you have a sense of assuredness this system has your back. You believe the rule of law is there to protect you.

Hans Asperger described a form of autism.

Asperger ‘helped Nazis kill kids’

Hans Asperger, the Austrian paediatrician whose name describes a form of autism, actively assisted in the murder of disabled children by the Nazis, according to two sets of new research.

The claims have led to calls for his name to be removed from the syndrome his work first described in 1944.

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