Your morning Briefing: Heat stress: power crisis hits home

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Hello readers. A heatwave has forced emergency powers to be tapped as the grid was stretched to the limit, and cricket gripped by the joy of Jhye.

Sunset at wind farm near Jamestown, South Australia. Picture: BERNARD HUMPHREYS

Heat is on

The electricity system ­operator has had to tap its emergency powers as ­failed generators stretched the grid and thousands of homes were plunged into darkness.

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Fairfax AGM , RACV Club, Melbourne, L-R: Roger Corbett, Chairman, & Greg Hywood, CEO, Picture Yuri Kouzmin

Franking plan savaged

Businessmen Roger Corbett has launched a withering attack on the ALP’s policy to rip up the nation’s franking credits system.

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Fashion editor Anna Wintour (left) and Australian federal politician Julie Bishop (right) react at the 2019 Australian Open Inspirational Series Brunch in Melbourne, Australia, Thursday January 24, 2019. (AAP Image/Tennis Australia, Fiona Hamilton) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Bishop backs icon

Julie Bishop says Anna Wintour made some “pretty pertinent points” after the fashionista launched an extraordinary attack on Scott Morrison and Margaret Court. Chris Kenny thinks the US Vogue editor’s haute commentary is uncharitable, unreasonalble, unfair and uncool.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 24: Rafael Nadal of Spain celebrates match point after winning his Men's Singles Semi Final match against Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece during day 11 of the 2019 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on January 24, 2019 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)

Nadal crushes Greek

Rafael Nadal marched to a three-set victory to arrive in his fifth championship match in Melbourne. It was a brutal display, writesIt was not to be. Not even close. Nadal marched to a 6-2 6-4 6-0 victory to arrive in his fifth championship match at Melbourne Park. It was a brutal display, writes Will Swanton. Brilliant. Ruthless. Relentless. And then there was the shot of the tournament.

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Australian bowler Jhye Richardson looks on during day one of the First Test match between Australia and Sri Lanka at The Gabba in Brisbane, Thursday, January 24, 2019. (AAP Image/Dave Hunt) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY, IMAGES TO BE USED FOR NEWS REPORTING PURPOSES ONLY, NO COMMERCIAL USE WHATSOEVER, NO USE IN BOOKS WITHOUT PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT FROM AAP

Joy of Jhye

Twenty-two-year-old Jhye Richardson came late to cricket but still looks young enough, floppy-haired and fresh-faced, to be bowling in your school’s first XI.Three wickets on his debut at Test level show he means business.

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Johannes Leak’s view

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