Your morning Briefing: Shorten lifts Labor’s poll dominance

Good morning readers, here’s your two-minute digest of today’s top stories.

Good morning readers, here’s your two-minute digest of today’s top stories.

Federal Labor leader Bill Shorten speaks during the NSW Labor Party election campaign launch in Revesby in southwest Sydney, Sunday, March 10, 2019. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett) NO ARCHIVING

Shorten lifts Labor’s poll dominance

Hopes of an electoral revival for the Morrison government on the back of a sharpened campaign against Bill Shorten’s border ­protection credentials and class-war tax plans have been cruelled, with Labor extending its lead as the government notches up 50 losing polls in a row.

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Barnaby Joyce during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Joyce: fight poll on coal

Barnaby Joyce has demanded Scott Morrison go to the May election promising government support for a new coal-fired power station in central Queensland, as the former deputy prime minister positions for a post-election tilt at the Nationals leadership.

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Rescue team collect remains of bodies amid debris at the crash site of Ethiopia Airlines near Bishoftu, a town some 60 kilometres southeast of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on March 10, 2019. - An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 crashed on March 10 morning en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi with 149 passengers and eight crew believed to be on board, Ethiopian Airlines said. (Photo by Michael TEWELDE / AFP)

Brand new Boeing jet crashes

An Ethiopian Airlines flight has crashed, killing all 157 on board; the second Boeing 737-8 Max plane to crash in five months.

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Andrew Bolt on the set of his new show for Sky News at the channel's Melbourne's studio. Picture: Andrew Henshaw

Media Diary: Bolt departs Macquarie Media

As Andrew Bolt leaves Macquarie Media, the company faces the prospect of a future without two of our best-known conservative commentators.

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