Your midday Briefing

Hello readers. Here’s the latest on how today has unfolded so far, plus some luxury for lunchtime.

Hello readers. Here’s how today unfolded so far, plus some luxury for lunchtime.

Same same but different: Hollie Hughes, left, hopes to replace Fiona Nash.

Hollie Hughes to face High Court test over Senate bid

NSW Liberal candidate Hollie Hughes, who was set to replace former deputy Nationals leader Fiona Nash in the Senate, will have her eligibility to sit in parliament tested by the High Court next week. Ms Hughes was due to be declared the successful replacement for Ms Nash today but there is a complication because she was appointed to the government-funded Administrative Appeals Tribunal in July. Under Section 44 of the Constitution any person who holds an office of profit under the Crown is incapable of sitting in parliament. Richard Di Natale hasn’t ruled out asking the Governor General to dissolve parliament as the citizenship crisis drags on.

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Prolific killer: German former male nurse Niels Hoegel hides his face in court. Picture: AFP

A century of corpses: German nurse’s killing spree

A nurse serving a life sentence for a double murder is suspected of being responsible for 102 deaths at two hospitals, a number that would make him Germany’s most prolific postwar serial killer. Niels Hogel, 41, was convicted in 2015 of two murders and three attempted murders by giving intensive-care patients overdoses of powerful drugs. After his conviction investigators exhumed 134 bodies from 67 cemeteries to test them for drugs that Hogel admitted using to induce heart attacks so he could play the hero by trying to resuscitate the patients.

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Original sinner: Michael Hutchence of INXS, studio portrait, London, 1990. Picture: Getty Images

Shine on you crazy cocaine sex god diamond

After all this time, what is left to say about Michael Hutchence? That was the question Toby Creswell wrestled with writing Shine Like It Does. The INXS singer, now 20 years gone, has remained in the public imagination. The records still sell, the band has been fictionalised, and its members have appeared on reality television and in authorised biographies. Hutchence was, without question, one of the truly great frontmen — his liquid stage performance made Michael Jackson look like a creaky robot. The challenge was to do him some justice and not just add to the tabloid nonsense such as played out in recent documentaries.

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A Ferrari classic with serious horsepower under the hood.

Some luxury in your own lunchtime

Felix Scholz looks at how the finest watch houses keep their classics alive with subtle, evolving modifications, while also embracing the modern.

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The many faces of dissociative identity disorder. Picture: iStock.

Friday Life: the united states of Bob:

Writes Ruth Ostrow: “For a long while I was close friends with a colleague who I shall call Bob. He was the most charming guy you could meet. We would laugh and laugh about everything in the world, he was perceptive, erudite and had a big warm heart.” But Bob would suddenly change, without warning, into something much darker ...

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Comment of the Day

“The GG will only take advice from the PM of the day not from a minor party leader.”

Stephen in reponse to Richard Di Natale not ruling out asking the Governer General to dissolve parliament.