Your afternoon Briefing
Good afternoon, readers. Here’s what made news today.
Good afternoon, readers. Here’s what made news today.
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Hillary trolls Trump
Hillary Clinton has returned to the media spotlight to poke fun at Donald Trump in a star-studded Grammys skit.
The vanquished Democrat presidential candidate appears in a video by the award show’s host James Corden, in which she and celebrities including Cher, Snoop Dogg and John Legend “audition” for a spoken-word version of the Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.
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Scope for power compensation
Premier Daniel Andrews says Victorians could be compensated as hot conditions saw more than 17,000 homes left without power.
“We are looking at all available means to compel companies to compensate people.”
The predicted cool change won’t reach Victoria’s southeast until early Tuesday while temperatures in the northeast are forecast to remain in the low 30s until Wednesday.
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Lisa lifts The Project’s ratings
Lisa Wilkinson’s debut on The Project has delivered a ratings boost to Ten, with last night’s show attracting more than 200,000 extra viewers.
At 7pm, 583,000 viewers were watching The Sunday Project, marking the show’s biggest audience to date, 88 per cent more than the 2017 series average.
The former co-host of Nine’s Today could not resist a gag about women’s advancement, in a nod to the pay dispute that prompted her dramatic exit from the morning show late last year.
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Why we need cow’s milk
Is it time to put down our soy flat whites and go back to regular old cow’s milk?
Dr Michael Mosley, of 5:2 fame, says alternatives to dairy are trendy but they lack a nutrient essential to physical wellbeing and to the intellect: iodine.
You can read all about it here.
China’s great wall of silence
China deliberately concealed information about the coronavirus, and now it is fighting an inquiry. So what is Beijing hiding?
Your noon Briefing
Your 2-minute digest of the day’s top stories.