Your morning Briefing: Bid to strip rort doctors’ cars, houses

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Ultrasound Examination In Doctors Office. Woman and her man in doctors office doing ultrasound examination Picture: Istock

Rorting doctors in sights

Doctors suspected of rorting Medicare could lose their luxury houses and cars, under a dramatic escalation of compliance efforts tipped to raise tens of millions of dollars a year for the federal government. The Department of Health has asked the Australian Federal Police whether the Proceeds of Crime Act — commonly used to restrain the assets of drug dealers, money launderers and fraudsters — could help it to deal with errant doctors.

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Herald Sun cartoonist Mark Knight at his home studio following a the viral and negative reaction to his cartoon which depicted Serena Williams' loss to Naomi Osaka during the U.S. Open. Picture: Jake Nowakowski

Drawing fire

It was meant as a joke, a depiction of Serena Williams, the greatest women’s tennis player the world has seen, chucking a tanty like a frustrated toddler in the middle of the US Open final, writes Chip le Grand. Instead, Mark Knight’s now­ ­infamous cartoon has fuelled a global debate about race, power and privilege and led some artists to question whether anyone can caricature a black woman without being devoured by the social media mob. Cartoonist Warren Brown says critics of Knight’s cartoon can’t handle the truth.

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Opposition Leader Bill Shorten attended a Last Post Ceremony at The Australian War Memorial in Canberra.Picture: Gary Ramage

Caught Shorten

Bill Shorten has been caught up in the bitter feud between Peter ­Dutton and Roman Quaedvlieg after the Home Affairs Minister ­revealed one of the Opposition Leader’s senior advisers had worked for the sacked Australian Border Force commissioner. Paul Iozzi was Mr Quaedvlieg’s chief of staff when he headed the ABF and now works as Mr Shorten’s national security adviser. The long-time defence and political adviser also worked as Labor MP Mike Kelly’s chief of staff when he was defence materiel minister in 2013. Keep up with all the latest from parliament in our live blog, PoliticsNow.

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Spouse for Solomon

Solomon Lew has just got hitched. Mazel tov! Margin Call can reveal the 73-year-old billionaire married his partner Roza Prappas at an intimate Jewish service days ago in Los Angeles. We gather there were only six people along, including the happy couple and the officiating rabbi.

“I didn’t want to deal with a gift registry.”

Solomon Lew

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Kudelka’s view

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