Your morning Briefing: Coalition election agenda in disarray
Your 2-minute digest of the day’s top stories and must-reads.
Hello readers. In your morning Briefing, it’s apocalypse now for the Liberals as a super storm turns Sydney sodden.
Run of Banks
The flight of Julia Banks to the crossbench has aided Labor’s attempts to destabilise the minority government and target Peter Dutton. Janet Albrechtsen laments a lonesome loser, Turnbull’s hero becomes ScoMo’s zero, Dennis Shanahan sniffs a stench of panic, Paul Kelly says the broad church should start praying and Richo reckons it’s time to abandon all hope. Keep up with the latest from parliament and the Coalition in crisis in our live blog, PoliticsNow.
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Storm chaos
Massive storms rolling across NSW are causing flash flooding, traffic chaos, and delays to flights and public transport.
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Foley folds
Former NSW Labor leader Luke Foley has told colleagues he will abandon a threat to sue journalist Ashleigh Raper and the ABC.
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Brexit bad
If Theresa May’s Brexit deal is passed it will be a disastrous day for Britain, but also a very bad day for Australia, suggests Greg Sheridan.
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Kudelka’s view