Your morning Briefing: Morrison’s Tampa moment

Your 2-minute digest of today’s top stories and must-reads.

Hello readers. PM gets a poll bounce from his Tampa moment, and Martina Navratilova says letting male-born transgender athletes to compete against women is unfair.

NEWS CORP EXCLUSIVE. Prime Minister Scott Morrison's video message to asylum seekers which will be translated into 15 languages and distributed to asylum-seeker hotspots in the coming weeks.

ScoMo’s Tampa moment

As a new poll shows Labor badly punished on border security, Scott Morrison campaigns in key migrant communities in Arabic, Mandarin and Korean. Christ Mitchell, meantime, suggests no issue better highlights the split personality of Australian media than the government’s defeat on the floor of parliament last week over medivac laws.

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Treasurer Josh Frydenberg during Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Wednesday, February 13, 2019. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Double tax hit

More than 500,000 people approaching retirement could suffer a double tax hit under Labor’s franking credit policy.

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2019 Australian Open Pat Cash honoured at Legends Lunch Grand Hyatt Martina Navratilova January 26 2019 Photo Fiona Hamilton/Tennis Australia

Gender advantage

Allowing male-born transgender athletes to compete against women is unfair, writes tennis legend Martina Navratilova.

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Jordan Peterson pictured before going in to talk at an event in Waterloo, Sydney. 16th February, 2019. Picture by Damian Shaw

Peterson’s ovation

Jordan Peterson spoke for more than an hour at the Opera House, reducing himself to tears at one point. Caroline Overington reports.

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Kudelka’s view

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