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Good morning readers. Here is your two-minute digest of what’s making news today.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull delivers a speech at the Business Council of Australia dinner in Sydney, Monday, November 20, 2017. (AAP Image/Daniel Munoz) NO ARCHIVING

Turnbull touts tax cuts

The Turnbull government is planning to unveil personal income tax cuts before the next election and believes it can achieve this without endangering the return to budget surplus in 2020-21. Malcolm Turnbull told the Business Council of Australia last night that the government had tax reform ambitions beyond its promised company tax cuts. “In the personal income tax space, I am also working with the Treasurer and my cabinet colleagues to ease the burden on ­middle-income Australians, while also meeting our commitment to return the budget to surplus,” the Prime Minister said.

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The Queensland election camapign blog.

Gloves off in Queensland

Political leaders will focus mainly on the state’s regions today as the fight to win critical seats there intensifies just days from the election. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk will spend her third straight day in the state’s north, while Opposition Leader Tim Nicholls will be in Brisbane to address the Queensland Media Club before heading to Townsville. Protesters against the Adani mine, meantime, will hold a rally in the Queen Street Mall. Keep up with events as they unfold with our rolling live blog, Campaign Trail.

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Greens Candidate Scott Ludlam votes at Highgate with Greens Party leader Christine Milne

Give up on Green snobs: Labor

About 70 per cent of Greens voters in inner Melbourne are rich, dislike unions and think suburban people are backwards, ­racist and bigoted, Labor research shows. A six-month survey of Melbourne Greens voters has encouraged the Victorian Labor Party to give up on campaigning to most of them, arguing they do not share Labor values and are closer to the Liberals. Labor has dubbed them “Teal Greens”, with teal being a colour blend of green and blue. The party has decided to target the 30 per cent “Red Greens” in Melbourne’s inner city who are typically university students or Millennials starting their careers. Nick Cater weighs in, suggesting that for Dan Andrews, the Greens are a fringe too far.

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20/11/2017: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull arriving at the Business Council of Australia's annual dinner at Sheraton on the Park. Hollie Adams/The Australian

PM walking on sunshine

Malcolm Turnbull’s preternatural good mood continued at the Business Council of Australia’s ­annual dinner last night, according to the Margin Call team. Whatever fortune’s slings and arrows, the zen PM continues. What a refreshing change. The BCA’s president Grant King and chief executive Jennifer ­Westacott were also in good ­spirits, with a few heavyweight international surprises to impress their dinner guests. And representing the south was former New Zealand prime minister Bill English and wife Mary, who ­arrived with Treasurer Scott ­Morrison.

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FILE - In this July 3, 1993 file photo, Jana Novotna breaks down and weeps, as she accepts the loser's plate from the Duchess of Kent, after the Ladies' Singles Final on the Centre Court at Wimbledon, London. The WTA says 1998 Wimbledon champion Novotna has died at the age of 49. The women's tennis body says Novotna died Sunday, Nov. 19, 2017, after a long battle with cancer. (AP Photo/Dave Caulkin, File)

Novotna dead at 49

Emotional tributes from across the world of tennis poured in for former Wimbledon champion Jana Novotna overnight after she died at the age of 49 following a long battle with cancer. Novotna won the Wimbledon title in 1998 beating Venus Williams and Martina Hingis on the way to her victory over France’s Nathalie Tauziat in the final. After a long battle with illness, she died on Sunday in her native Czech Republic surrounded by her family, a WTA statement said. She played in two other Wimbledon singles finals, losing to Steffi Graf in 1993 and to Hingis in 1997. The picture of a distraught Novotna being comforted by the Duchess of Kent after losing the 1993 final when she had led 4-1 in the final set is one of the memorable Wimbledon moments.

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Douglas Murray The Strange Death of Europe

Busting the immigration myths

The big-immigration fan club is fuelled by growing myths, writes Judith Sloan in a key piece of analysis, citing Douglas Murray’s fascinating book, The Strange Death of Europe. It outlines the series of events that led to almost uncontrolled mass migration to many European countries after World War II and since. The author is on the money, says Sloan, when it comes to querying the economic rationales for immigration — that is, it will be a boost for the economy, productivity and living standards, and it will halt the ageing of the population.

“He makes the important point — one that I have made — that unless analyses are undertaken using per capita measurements, they are useless and misleading.”

Judith Sloan

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Clement’s view

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