Your morning Briefing: Phelps bill a security risk: ASIO

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Hello readers. ASIO warns that Phelps bill is a security risk, and strife mounts for Yuhu founder.

Independent Member for Wentworth Kerryn Phelps speaks during the Reclaim The Streets Rally in central Sydney, Saturday, January 19, 2019. Supporters of pill testing have gathered at a Sydney rally in a bid to pressure the NSW government to allow it at raves and music festivals. (AAP Image/Steven Saphore) NO ARCHIVING

‘Security risk’

Agencies are understood to have warned that offshore ­processing of asylum-seekers would be dismantled under a medivac law proposed by new MP Kerryn Phelps.

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MARCH 2002 : Cover of the book "The Great Gatsby" by F Scott Fitzgerald, 03/02.

Same-sex reading

A group of teachers wants the English texts for secondary students to better reflect the nation’s diverse sexual identities.

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Xiangmo Huang and his son Jimmy Huang at the construction site for Jewel, which is now owned by their company Yuhu Group. Photo: Supplied

Strife mounts

Chinese property developer Huang Xiangmo is facing major problems across his ­portfolio of Australian real estate assets.

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Local residents use a boat and an inflatable pool to salvage furniture from their flood-affected home in the suburb of Hermit Park in Townsville, Wednesday, February 6, 2019. Residents have begun cleaning up after days of torrential rain and unprecedented water releases from the city's swollen dam, sending torrents of water down the Ross River and into the city, swamping roads, yards and homes. (AAP Image/Dan Peled) NO ARCHIVING

Revise maps

Townsville’s flood maps did not predict the inundation across riverside suburbs where new, ground-level homes were built.

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Kudelka’s view

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