Your afternoon Briefing

Jim Molan rejects Adam Bandt’s apology, Jacinta Price announces bid and Jack the Insider writes on our MP’s private lives.

Good afternoon, readers. Adam Bandt has apologised to Jim Molan, Jacinta Price announces she will bid to enter federal politics and Jack the Insider reveals what really lies in our MP’s private lives.

Senator Jim Molan in his Office,at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Molan canes Bandt’s apology

Liberal senator Jim Molan has savaged the apology delivered by Adam Bandt, declaring he was still considering launching defamation action against the Greens MP.

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Warlpiri/Celtic woman Jacinta price ,36, is speaking out about the repercussions of voicing a difference of opinion about Australia Day, Alice Springs.

Price to run for Coalition

Jacinta Price will bid to enter federal politics at the next election by nominating for the Coalition in an outback seat in the Northern Territory.

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Peter Dutton chokes back tears in response to Cole Miller's dad

Dutton’s on-air breakdown

A father whose 18-year-old son was killed in a cowardly one-punch attack has broken down while thanking Immigration Minister Peter Dutton for deporting the killer’s accomplice.

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8/2/18 Crash on Pittwater Rd Dee Why. Picture: Adam Yip / Manly Daily

Garbo truck crushes mum

A woman pushing a pram has been crushed to death by a garbage truck on Sydney’s northern beaches.

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Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce in Question Time in the House of Representatives Chamber, at Parliament House in Canberra.

Show business for ugly people

Jack the Insider writes in his latest column that the private lives of our politicians are immensely sad and prying into Barnaby Joyce’s family affairs is treating politics as cheap entertainment.