Your afternoon Briefing

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

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

Australian Public Service Commissioner John Lloyd speaks during Senate Estimates at Parliament House in Canberra, Monday, May 21, 2018. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Public service chief quits after grilling

Public service commissioner John Lloyd has resigned after he faced a long grilling in Senate Estimates over his links to the Institute of Public Affairs.

Mr Lloyd faced questions over the past two weeks after he emailed the head of the Institute of Public Affairs a day after he was questioned in a separate Senate estimates hearing.

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Billy Slater during the Queensland State of Origin team training session at Sanctuary Cove on the Gold Coast, Sunday, June 3, 2018. (AAP Image/Dave Hunt) NO ARCHIVING

Slater out of Origin opener

Billy Slater has been ruled out of the opening State of Origin game.

Slater, who carried a dodgy hamstring into the Queensland camp, was officially scratched today in a devastating blow to the Maroons only 48 hours before the series was due to begin at the MCG on Wednesday night.

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Police continue to search a home in Surry Hills, Sydney, Friday, August 4, 2017. Two men will face court on Friday in relation to a Sydney-based terror plot to bring down a plane, which included an aborted attempt to place an improvised explosive device on a flight out of Sydney. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett)

‘There was no justice for me’

The police officer who was kicked in the head by a teenager on Boxing Day has told a court he has been let down by the system.

The police officer was attacked by the 17-year-old while he was kneeling on the ground trying to restrain a young shoplifter at the Highpoint Shopping Centre.

His attacker was sentenced in January to a nine-month probation order with no conviction recorded.

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Plastic wrapped supermarket vegetables. Part of a story about too much plastic wrap on small fresh produce.

The war on plastic

Supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths are stepping up their war on plastic, introducing new targets to slash the amount of wrapping on fresh fruit and vegetables as well as tackling food waste.

This picture taken from the instagram account of @rochilazotv shows Guatemala's volcano Fuego during an eruption in Alotenango, Guatemala on June 3, 2018 At least six people were killed when Guatemala's Fuego volcano erupted, belching ash and rock and forcing the airport to close. The strong eruption was the second major one this year. The dead were from farming communities just south of the volcano who were trapped by hot lava flow, National Disaster Relief Agency spokesman David de Leon told reporters / AFP PHOTO / María Del Rocío Lazo / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

Volcano’s deadly eruption

And one of Central America’s most active volcanoes — Guatemala’s Volcan de Fuego — has erupted in fiery explosions of ash and molten rock, killing at least 25 people and injuring 20.

An undetermined number were missing, and authorities feared the toll could rise.

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