Your morning Briefing: Hate cleric link to Melbourne terror plot

Good morning, readers. Al-Qa’ida propagandist may have inspired the ­latest alleged terror plot and PM snubs ‘flawed’ UN migration pact.

Good morning, readers. Hate cleric Anwar al-­Awlaki has been linked to the latest Melbourne terror plot and Scott Morrison passes up ‘flawed’ UN migration compact.

Samed Erikloiglu is taken from AFP offices in Latrobe street after several terror raids in Melbournes North this morning. Picture Jay Town

Hate cleric link to Melbourne terror plot

An al-Qa’ida propagandist may have inspired Australia’s latest alleged terror plot from beyond the grave, with one of three men charged with planning a terror ­attack posting on social media a quote attributed to Anwar al-­Awlaki. The three men were arrested in police raids which followed a familiar pattern — bangs, broken glass, and cries.

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Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks at the Project Sydney Bradfield Oration in Sydney, Monday, November 19, 2018. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett) NO ARCHIVING

PM passes up UN migration pact

Scott Morrison will today announce his decision to snub the UN’s migration pact on the grounds it would weaken border security.

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Democracy’s unlikely hero

Meet the academic who challenges the Trump hatred so common among his peers and gets the point behind the President’s populism, writes Janet Albrechtsen.

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Teacher Regina Wilson from Woodville High School in South Australia

Teacher’s vow: turn kids off Libs

A public school teacher vowed on social media to “ensure that the next generation of voters in my classroom don’t vote Liberal”.

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Cartoonist Larry Pickering at his home in Bundall on the Gold Coast in Queensland. Pickering has started drawing cartoons again after abandoning it in 1981.

Larry blurred the line

Known for inflammatory image­s often with lewd sexual overtones, Larry Pickering’s life was as colourful as his bawdy etchings.