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Hello readers. Shorten fails to water down border protection, and can the Aussies get down to business with the bat in Adelaide?

Leader of the Opposition Bill Shorten during Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, December 6, 2018. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Shorten softens border policy

Bill Shorten has softened Labor’s border-protection policy ahead of the party’s national conference, after a failed attempt last night to hold national security laws as a ransom in exchange for watered-down immigration rules that would hand doctors the power to relocate refugees to Australia.

Dennis Shanahan wonders why the Opposition Leader decided to stick Labor’s collective head above the parapet?

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06/12/2018: 70 year old Chris Dawson is escorted by NSW Police whilst being flown from Queensland to NSW to face charges of murder over the death of his wife Lyn Dawson. PIC: Lyndon Mechielsen/ The Australian

‘False leads’

New allegations that Chris Dawson ­created a string of false leads to convince friends and family his wife had walked out on him will be at the heart of the prosecution case against the former Sydney schoolteacher, senior sources close to the investigation claim.

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****MUST CREDIT 9 NEWS*****A screengrab from 9 News of Manly's Dylan Walker being picked up by coach Des Hasler at Manly Police station after being charged ov a domestic violence assault****MUST CREDIT 9 NEWS*****

Sea Eagle charged

Manly Sea Eagles star Dylan Walker has been charged with assaulting his fiancee after an alleged domestic violence incident on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. The woman, 24, suffered minor cuts to her shoulder, leg and feet at a home in Dee Why, on Thursday afternoon and was treated by paramedics at the scene.

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Independent Member for Wentworth Kerryn Phelps during Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, December 6, 2018. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Phelps’s firepower

Kerryn Phelps has assembled a rainbow coalition to support her second showdown with the Liberals’ Dave Sharma, according to Margin Call.

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***MUST CREDIT FOX Sports*** Amazing Usman Khawaja catch in first Test at Adelaide Oval against Virat Kholi

Cummins gets his man

In just four balls, Australian paceman Pat Cummins has become Virat Kohli’s nemesis. Cummins has twice in four deliveries in Test cricket dethroned the Indian king. In the first Test in Adelaide yesterday, Cummins dismissed Kohli with his third ball of the innings, and third to the Indian captain. In Ranchi in March last year, the Australian quick claimed Kohli’s scalp with the only ball he bowled at the Indian hero.

Kohli yesterday fell to a barely believable catch by Usman Khawaja at gully. The ball caught the edge of Kohli’s bat and flew to the left of Khawaja who, diving at full-stretch, completed a stunning one-handed catch. Keep up with all the Test Match Day Two action in our live blog.

“Literally: nick, react, catch. You do it in training all the time, some stick and some don’t. You don’t take too many catches like that so it was a lot of fun, especially being Virat, obviously one of their key men.”

Usman Khawaja

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Kudelka’s view

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