Your morning Briefing: PM lays down law to CFMEU

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17/05/2018: John Setka, Victorian Union Leader of the CFMEU in Melbourne. Stuart McEvoy for The Australian.

PM lays down law to CFMEU

The Coalition will seek to revive plans to disqualify law-breaking union officials amid threats by the PM to deregister the CFMEU. Ewin Hannan suggests the union has handed the PM the ammunition to reactivate the Coalition’s assault on the CFMEU.

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Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, and the United States Marines regroup after an amphibious insertion into Bellows Training Area during Exercise RIMPAC 2018. *** Local Caption *** A multinational amphibious assault on Bellows Beach has marked the final showdown for Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2018. Australian personnel from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, and US Marine Corps soldiers of Task Force Black’s pre-landing force departed the Royal Australian Navy amphibious ship, HMAS Adelaide, using small-boats to insert onto the beach for an urban raid. Concurrently, a combat team of follow-on forces launched 13 USMC Amphibious Assault Vehicles from Adelaide’s well dock to storm the beach. The multinational task force involving soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines from Japan, Tonga, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri-Lanka and the United States swiftly executed the amphibious assault by surprising the notional enemy on two fronts. The activity was the culmination of weeks of training and preparation conducted during RIMPAC. RIMPAC is a biennial military training exercise to strengthen international maritime partnerships, enhance interoperability and improve the readiness of participating forces for a wide range of potential scenarios. The multinational activity, held from 27 June to 2 August 2018 in Hawaii and off the coast of California, is the world’s largest maritime exercise and involves 25,000 personnel from 25 countries. Participating personnel and assets will conduct gunnery, missile, anti-submarine, and air-defence exercises, as well as maritime interdiction and vessel boarding, explosive ordnance disposal, diving and salvage operations, mine clearance operations and an amphibious landing.

‘Threats are accelerating’

Australia’s new army chief Rick Burr, says lethality of warfare’s future shock means military must be more innovative in response.

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Catholic schools fix was in

The Turnbull government was days away from signing a “peace deal’’ with Catholic schools involving an extra $4.4bn, fresh leaks on the last days of the former PM’s reign have revealed.

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Rod Clement Margin Call cartoon for 04-09-18 Version: Letters Cartoon (1280x720 - Aspect ratio preserved, Canvas added)COPYRIGHT: The Australian's artists each have different copyright agreements in place regarding re-use of their work in other publications.Please seek advice from the artists themselves or the Managing Editor of The Australian regarding re-use.

Old mates

Anthony Pratt is surprising even some of his most ardent social media followers of late. Find out why in today’s Margin Call.

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Johannes Leak’s view

Johannes Leak Letters cartoon for 04-09-18Version: Letters Cartoon (1280x720 - Aspect ratio preserved, Canvas added)COPYRIGHT: The Australian's artists each have different copyright agreements in place regarding re-use of their work in other publications.Please seek advice from the artists themselves or the Managing Editor of The Australian regarding re-use.