Your morning Briefing: Brexit in tatters with May defeat

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Hello readers. Brexit is in tatters after a humiliating defeat for Theresa May and look for our live blog of George Pell’s sentencing this morning.

A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May speaking at the start of the debate on the second meaningful vote on the government's Brexit deal, in the House of Commons in London on March 12, 2019. - Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal suffered a big blow on March 12, 2019 when her chief attorney ruled that risks from its most contention points remained "unchanged". (Photo by JESSICA TAYLOR / various sources / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - NO USE FOR ENTERTAINMENT, SATIRICAL, ADVERTISING PURPOSES - MANDATORY CREDIT " AFP PHOTO /Jessica TAYLOR/ UK Parliament"

Brexit in tatters

The UK moves into uncharted territory as Theresa May suffered another humiliating defeat of her withdrawal bill by 391 to 242. Jacquelin Magnay asks where does May go next?

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A Boeing 737 MAX 8 being built for Oman Air sits parked at Boeing Co.'s Renton Assembly Plant, Monday, March 11, 2019, in Renton, Wash. Airlines in several countries grounded the same model jetliner Monday following Sunday's crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8, the second devastating crash of one of the planes in five months. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

US holds firm on May 8 jets

The US continues to defy pressure to ground Boeing’s 737 Max 8 jet as Australia, Britain and EU and other countries suspend flights.

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TOPSHOT - Cardinal George Pell (C) makes his way to the court in Melbourne on February 27, 2019. - Cardinal George Pell arrived in court, possibly for the last time as a free man, in a last-ditch push to apply for bail after his historic conviction for child sex crimes. (Photo by Con CHRONIS / AFP)

Pell sentencing

Whatever happens, George Pell is going home in the back of a prison van, writes John Ferguson. Whoever is funding this defence is bleeding cash. It’s not the church paying the bill. But probably men of the faith with big gigs around Collins St and Martin Place. Follow the Pell sentencing as it happens with our live blog.

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Little nobodies

The left-wing midgets pressurising Sky advertisers did not expect a backlash, but some consumers who value free speech are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore, writes Janet Albrechtsen

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Opposition Leader Bill Shorten , in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

‘Fat cat bosses’ lashed

Bill Shorten has ramped up his war on business, caning criticism of a Labor wages plan that could affect 2.3m workers.

“I love this argument put aside by the bosses of Australia, the fat cats, the top end of town. They say if we pay the poorest workers in Australia a bit more, that’s out of control. But how is it that the executives are happy to take more and more in corporate profits? This is the problem of Australia in 2019. The benefits of hard work are not equally spread.”

Bill Shorten

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Kudelka’s view

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