Your afternoon Briefing

Good afternoon, readers. Anthony Albanese hits the Longman by-election campaign trail and why consumers are fleeing private health cover.

Good afternoon, readers. Opposition infrastructure spokesman Anthony Albanese has hit the by-election campaign trail and analysts reveal why consumers are fleeing private health insurance.

The Townsville Labour Day march along The Strand. Shadow Minister for Transport & Infrastructure, Anthony Albanese. Picture: Zak Simmonds

Albo hits by-election campaign trail

Having declined to say whether he’d seek the ALP leadership if Bill Shorten failed in Longman, opposition infrastructure spokesman Anthony Albanese has recommitted Labor to a $2.24 billion project to ease rail congestion.

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PANMUNJOM, SOUTH KOREA - APRIL 27: North Koraen Leader Kim Jong Un speaks during the Inter-Korean Summit at the Peace House on April 27, 2018 in Panmunjom, South Korea. Kim and Moon meet at the border today for the third-ever inter-Korean summit talks after the 1945 division of the peninsula, and first since 2007 between then President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea and Leader Kim Jong-il of North Korea. (Photo by Korea Summit Press Pool/Getty Images)

Torture tales from Kim’s gulag

As Kim Jong-un works to rehabilitate his image abroad, North Korean defectors describe executions and rape in his network of prison camps.

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02/06/2011 FEATURES: Portrait of surgeons at work, operating in uniform, looking at camera. Hospital. Operation. Theatre. Surgery. Generic image.

New private health fee warning

Privately insured patients are on track to have to pay more than half a surgeon’s fees from their own pockets, analysts say.

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Clive Palmer speaks to media after attending a hearing at the Supreme Court, in Brisbane, Wednesday, April 18, 2018. Former federal MP Clive Palmer says there's been an abuse of process and he'll seek to halt legal proceedings involving his failed nickel company. (AAP Image/Glenn Hunt) NO ARCHIVING

Palmer clears hurdle in PM suit

Clive Palmer has secured a big win in the Court of Appeal as he pursues Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in a defamation suit.

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Jonathan Green's tweet of the new Meanjin cover.https://twitter.com/GreenJ/status/1003459265191817216

Joke’s on identity politics

The incessantly offended Left has been forced to apologise for using one fashionable cause to scribble over a word that might relate to another, writes Chris Kenny.