Your morning Briefing: Risks soar as auditors set in stone for decades

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Hello readers. Some of our biggest companies have been using the same auditors for decades, raising corporate risk, and Ash Barty is headed back to no. 1.

EMBARGO FOR THE DEAL MAGAZINE NOV 21 2014 COVER PIC EXCLUSIVE ASX Group Managing Director Elmer Funke Kupper for The Deal magazine cover story. Pictured in his Sydney office.

Risks soar as auditors set in stone for decades

Some of Australia’s biggest ­companies have failed to change auditors for decades, raising concerns about the risk of corporate disasters.

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Labor split on PM’s faith

Labor’s use of Scott Morrison’s Christianity in a political attack over the Sri Lankan­ Tamil family has triggered divisions within the ALP. Greg Sheridan writes that the plight of the Tamil couple and their two Australian-born children is the policy ­dilemma from hell.

“I change my mind on the issue every five minutes.”

Greg Sheridan

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Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk visited the new North Queensland stadium in Townsville, where the first seat was put in place with the help of former North Queensland Cowboys player Johnathan Thurston. PICTURE: Matt Taylor.

Ex-ALP staffer’s coal lobby links

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s former adviser’s lobbying firm has been appointed to help secure a mine expansion.

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Ashleigh Barty, of Australia, returns against Qiang Wang, of China, during round four of the US Open tennis championships Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen)

Barty set for return to no.1

Ash Barty will depart New York as the world’s top-ranked woman after Naomi Osaka was beaten at the US Open.

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Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks to the media outside 10 Downing Street in London, Monday, Sept. 2, 2019. Johnson says he doesn't want an election amid Brexit crisis and issued a rallying cry to lawmakers to back him in securing Brexit deal. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Boris threatens snap election

Boris Johnson warns rebel MPs he’ll call a snap election if they vote to delay Brexit beyond October 31.

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Kudelka’s view

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