Your afternoon Briefing

Good afternoon, readers. As the day draws to a close, here’s what you need to know.

Good afternoon, readers. As the day draws to a close, here’s what you need to know.

Nick Xenophon Team Member for Mayo Rebekha Sharkie at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, June 15, 2017. George Christensen and Sharkie will introduce a bill to stop the Fair Work Commission decision to reduce penalty rates for retail, fast food, tourism and hospitality workers from taking effect on July 1. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

NXT crossbencher Rebekha Sharkie has become the latest parliamentarian to be embroiled by the dual-citizenship fiasco as it is revealed Nick Xenophon’s wingwoman was still a British citizen when she was nominated to run for the 2016 election. In other section 44 news, Bill Shorten has demanded an inquiry into Communications Minister Mitch Fifield’s “cover up” of Senate president Stephen Parry’s potential dual-citizenship.

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Who wears the dual-citizenship crisis better?

For those exasperated by the ostensibly neverending dual-citizenship debacle, James Jeffrey’s latest Strewth column may provide some much needed lighthearted relief.

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Koenigsegg Agera RS for Motoring page column. Supplied

Can I get a vroom?

For all you motorheads, the title of world’s fastest car is being contested like never before, with the current holder of the honour Bugatti scrambling to stay ahead of low-volume hypercar brands.

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Students leave Malek Fahd Islamic School in Greenacre

Muslim body to repay $22m

The peak body for Muslims in Australia has agreed to repay $22 million in misappropriated payments to the largest Islamic school in Australia.

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Two 10,000-tonne boilers come crashing down.

Going, going, gone

In one of the world’s biggest demolition projects, two boilers from the last coal-fired power station in SA have been blown up.

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