Your afternoon Briefing

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

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

AMP's general counsel, Brian Salter, at AMP's offices in Circular Quay, Sydney.

I did no wrong: AMP counsel

AMP’s former top in house lawyer has defended his role in fees for no service scandal as he revealed he only learnt of his sacking from an announcement to the stock exchange this morning.

“I have not engaged in any wrongdoing,” Brian Salter, the Group legal counsel for AMP said in a brief statement this afternoon.

The comment came just hours after Catherine Brenner resigned as chairman of the troubled $11bn financial giant and appeared to lay the blame at the feet of Mr Salter for a scandal that has placed the group at risk of criminal findings.

Leader of the Opposition Bill Shorten at a press conference after making his pre-budget address at a McKell Institute lunch in Sydney, Monday, April 30, 2018. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

‘Don’t allow golden handshakes’

Meanwhile, Bill Shorten has called on Malcolm Turnbull to join him in condemning “golden handshakes” for disgraced bank bosses.

The PM this morning said AMP chair Catherine Brenner had made the right decision in stepping down.

“I’m calling upon Mr Turnbull to exert some moral leadership. There’s no way after what we’ve heard in the royal commission that millions of dollars of shareholder money should be handed out in the form of golden handshakes to disgraced executives leaving a s a result of these scandals.” Mr Shorten said.

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**MUST CREDIT PAUL DOWSLEY/7 NEWS** Police speak to youths who left a North Melbourne house where an overnight party finished with four police cars being badly damaged.

Inside the house party from hell

Police cars were smashed and a two-bedroom North Melbourne rental property trashed at a party attended by up to 50 African youths.

After responding to a complaint at 2am yesterday, officers asked the group to leave.

It initially co-operated, but while police were in the front courtyard, rubbish bins and logs of wood were thrown over the fence at officers, forcing them to retreat indoors.

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Sarah Huckerbee Sanders, Michelle Wolf

Comedian sparks outrage at Correspondents’ dinner

Donald Trump has joined a chorus of outrage over a comedian who took the roasting of his chief spokeswoman and others in his team too far.

Michelle Wolf’s off-colour routine mocked the US President, as expected, but it was her barbs at White House press secretary Sarah Huckerbee-Sanders, who was sitting just feet away, that left guests in stony silence, with one storming out in protest.

You can watch Wolf’s remarks here.