Your afternoon Briefing

Your 2-minute digest of the day’s top stories and must-reads.

Hello readers. Kate Ellis has bid a spirited and emotional farewell to parliament, and a spectacular 21-car high-speed pile-up brought Daytona to a screeching halt.

 

‘A woman’s place is in the house’

Kate Ellis says she isn’t leaving parliament because it’s hard to be a woman there, but because finally, there are women to hand over to.

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Daytona’s fiery 21-car wreck

In the blink of an eye, a massive crash took out half the field in the Daytona 500.

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Evidence ‘destroyed’

The AFP thought there was enough evidence to lay charges over the AWU raid leak affair, but

believes evidence was destroyed.

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Milk move a drop in the bucket

Woolworths’ decision to ditch $1 a litre milk is small beer but it will put a cloud over Coles’s maiden profit report tomorrow.

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Hanna pleads not guilty to rape

A woman allegedly raped by former union boss David Hanna sent a message to a friend saying “save me”, a court has heard.

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