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Hello readers. A rare native bird could derail the Adani coalmine, and meet more victims of an arch conman in our new podcast, Who the hell is Hamish?

The black throated finch.

Finch derails Adani

The endangered black-throated finch is on the verge of halting Adani’s controversial coalmine after a review. Michael McKenna writes that Labor can’t hide its Adani distrust.

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Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves the Houses of Parliament in Westminster following a Brexit vote in the House of Commons, in London, Thursday Feb. 14, 2019. May suffered an embarrassing defeat by lawmakers Thursday in a vote that left her bid to secure a European Union divorce deal stuck between an intransigent EU and a resistant U.K. Parliament _ with Brexit just six weeks away. (Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP)

Missing May

Theresa May was absent from the House of Commons when the Tories suffered another humiliating Brexit defeat in Westminster.

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The Deal: Ken Henry’s road to contrition

The banking royal commission handed Ken Henry his biggest career challenge. He pushed back. But then it was too late, writes John Durie in the latest issue of The Deal, out today.

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Podcast: Who the hell is Hamish?

Glenn Pickard and his wife Vickie were among victims preparing to celebrate the sentencing of fraud Hamish McLaren. Greg Bearup presents our latest podcast on a serial fraudster’s global trail of lies and heartbreak.

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Kudelka’s view

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