Your morning Briefing: MPs agree to extent Brexit deadline

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Hello readers. MPs have voted to ask the EU to extend the Brexit deadline, and Beto O’Rourke ignites the Democrats.

LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 14: Theresa May leaves Parliament on March 14, 2019 in London, England. Tonight MPs voted in favour of delaying Brexit until at least June 30th 2019 with 412 votes to 202, a majority of 210 (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

‘Extend deadline’

Theresa May will ask the EU to extend the Brexit deadline after MPs voted overwhelmingly for an extension to Article 50.

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Opposition Leader Bill Shorten is seen talking with staff during a visit to WooliesX in West Footscray in Melbourne on Thursday, March 14, 2018. (AAP Image/Stefan Postles) NO ARCHIVING

Wages warning

Former ACTU secretary Bill Kelty has cautioned that Labor’s proposed living wage could risk a blowout and a “cost spike” for the economy.

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 4, 2018 Democratic candidate for the US Senate Beto O’Rourke arrives for his last public event before election night at the Pan American Neighborhood Park in Austin, Texas. - Beto O'Rourke, the affable former congressman who rose to political stardom last year when he nearly ousted a Republican senator in traditionally conservative Texas, announced on March 14, 2019 he was running for the 2020 presidential race. (Photo by SUZANNE CORDEIRO / AFP)

Beto ignites Democrats

No big rally or thumping speech: Beto O’Rourke enters the Democrat presidential race in a typically unorthodox way.

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The Greens' Kooyong candidate Julian Burnside and (inset) two of his luxurious properties.

Greens’ $20m man

With the exit of genuine rich-listers, Turnbull, Rudd, Laundy, Julian Burnside could reorder our political rich list, writes Margin Call. And although he has amassed a $20m property portolio, the Greens candidate now wants to end tax breaks for future investors.

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Own goal

Facebook has admitted a massive own goal was the cause of yesterday’s outage which for some users is not over.

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AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan addresses the crowd at the start of the 2018 AFL Draft at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne, Thursday, November 22, 2018. (AAP Image/James Ross) NO ARCHIVING

Day game

Australian football tradition has won out over progression with the AFL grand final remaining a day game. And the Storm squashed the Broncos revolution as this season’s NFL action got underway.

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Kudelka’s view

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