Your morning Briefing: Sparks fly in ex-PM’s energy war

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Hello readers. The ex-PM has racheted up his energy war, and meet the $113bn super man.

Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull speaks to media after delivering an address at the NSW Smart Energy Summit in Sydney, Tuesday, December 4, 2018. (AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts) NO ARCHIVING

Turnbull’s energy war

Malcolm Turnbull has reignited the Coalition’s energy wars amid revelations the former PM and Bill Shorten have held private phone talks on the NEG. Dennis Shanahan suggests the more rogue Malcolm Turnbull becomes, the better Scott Morrison and his colleagues get at handling his sabotage. A rapid shift to renewable energy from coal over the next decade may threaten the security of the nation’s power grid, Perry Williams reports. Keep up with the latest from parliament in our live blog, PoliticsNow.

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BDS, an international group which calls for the boycott of Israel has been handing out stickers carrying the SBS brand and logo. The stickers are part of a campaign against SBS broadcasting Eurovision 2019, which will take place in Israel.

SBS logo hijacked

An activist group has hijacked the SBS logo in protest against the planned broadcast of the Eurovision song contest in ­Israel. Remy Varga has the story.

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MELBNOURNE,AUSTRALIA 4 APRIL 2018: Photo of Gregory Combet AM a former Australian politician and trade unionist, he was Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions between 2000 and 2007, in Melbourne on Wednesday 4 April 2018' Photo Luis Enrique Ascui

$113bn super man

Ahead of a likely ALP election win, Greg Combet has become one of the most powerful figures in the $2.7 trillion super system.

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04/12/18 Peter Lalor is a retired cop whose career was destroyed by Operation Briars, an investigation contaminated by the involvement of Lawyer X. Aaron Francis/The Australian

‘Widen Lawyer X probe’

Four retired police detectives want the ­Victoria Police royal commission to delve beyond Lawyer X’s activities.

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Kudelka’s view

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