Your afternoon Briefing

Good afternoon, readers. The ABC has been slammed over Andrew Probyn’s report on Tony Abbott and AFL great Mark ‘Bomber’ Thompson in court.

Good afternoon, readers. The ABC has been slammed by the broadcast regulator ACMA for Andrew Probyn’s report on Tony Abbott and AFL great Mark ‘Bomber’ Thompson is to face court on drug charges.

9/4/18 Former PM Tony Abbott in Warragul prior to leaving on the next leg of his Pollie Pedal through the Latrobe Valley. Aaron Francis/The Australian

ABC’s Abbott report ‘judgmental’

The ABC’s new political editor Andrew Probyn has been chastised by the ACMA for breaching impartiality standards in a controversial report about Tony Abbott.

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‘Bomber’ Thompson faces drug charges

Former Essendon and Geelong coach Mark ‘Bomber’ Thompson has been arrested and charged with drug trafficking.

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Radio Host Alan Jones leaves the Supreme Court in Brisbane, Monday, April 30, 2018. The Toowoomba-based Wagner family is suing talkback radio host Alan Jones over comments he made during 32 broadcasts in 2014 and 2015. (AAP Image/Dan Peled) NO ARCHIVING

Jones lawsuit details revealed

A multimillion-dollar damages case against Alan Jones was ‘vastly increased’ in recent days, the Supreme Court has heard.

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(FILES) This file photo taken on June 17, 2014 shows Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos presenting the company's first smartphone, the Fire Phone, in Seattle, Washington. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos became the world's richest person on July 27, 2017, as a jump in the share price of the US tech giant enabled him to overtake Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Forbes magazine estimated. The magazine said its real-time tracking of personal fortunes showed Bezos with a net worth of $90.5 billion, ahead of the $90 billion for Gates. / AFP PHOTO / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / David Ryder

Amazon’s ‘weird’ meeting rule

With Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos at the helm, in an atmosphere more akin to a Trappist monastery than a boardroom, meetings start with...30 minutes of silence, writes Valetine Low.

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Pedestrians walk past a Telstra Corp. Discovery store in Melbourne, Australia, on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016. Telstra, Australia's biggest phone company, is scheduled to report half-year results on Feb. 18. Photographer: Carla Gottgens/Bloomberg

Telcos shred limits in data war

Vodafone and Telstra have both moved to counter Optus by officially launching mobile plans with unlimited data.