Your afternoon Briefing

Plibersek takes Cash to task over her controversial comments, Cash withdraws comments and temperatures plunge across Europe.

Good afternoon, readers. Tanya Plibersek has taken Jobs Minister Michaelia Cash to task over her controversial comments regarding Bill Shorten’s female staffers, Cash has withdrawn the aforementioned comments and temperatures plunge across Europe.

Deputy Leader of the Opposition Tanya Plibersek makes a 90 second statement in the House of Representatives in Canberra, Wednesday, February 28, 2018. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Cash lashed for ‘attack’

Tanya Plibersek has taken Jobs Minister Michaelia Cash to task over her comments on female staffers in Bill Shorten’s office.

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Minister for Jobs Michaelia Cash at Senate estimates hearing at Parliament House in Canberra, Wednesday, February 28, 2018. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

‘A dangerous path to go down’

Michaelia Cash has withdrawn controversial comments about women in Bill Shorten’s office. Caroline Overington writes it’s time for Senator Cash to grow up and stop acting like a mean girl.

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Clive Hamilton's new book Silent Invasion, published by Hardie Grant. Supplied

Clive’s Yellow Peril nonsense

Clive Hamilton is treating us all as mugs with his latest book on Chinese influence in Australia, writes Graham Richardson.

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24/01/2018Former WA premier Colin Barnett as he packs up his office after 27 years in politics, photographed in Cottesloe.pic Colin Murty The Australian.

AGL pours water on pipeline

AGL Energy has poured cold water on former WA Premier Colin Barnett’s push to pipe WA gas to the east coast.

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Picture taken with a drone shows snow-covered sailing ships mooring at the boatyard harbour of Kirchdorf on the Baltic Sea island of Poel, northeastern Germany, where bays risk to freeze due to permafrost and night temperatures below minus ten degrees Celsius, on February 27, 2018. A blast of Siberian weather dubbed "The Beast from the East" sent temperatures plunging across much of Europe. / AFP PHOTO / dpa / Jens Büttner / Germany OUT

Beast bites Britain

A blast of Siberian weather sent temperatures plunging across much of Europe, causing headaches for travellers and leading to several deaths.