Your morning Briefing

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

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

President Donald Trump speaks during an event on tax policy in the Rose Garden of the White House, Thursday, April 12, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump bullish on TPP

Donald Trump has ordered his senior economic and trade advisers to examine the possibility of the United States re-entering the 11 nation Trans Pacific Partnership. The surprise move, which comes just over a year after the president withdrew from the TPP, would if enacted dramatically recast trade across the Asia Pacific and act as a powerful symbolic boost for global free trade.

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The Nine Network is tipped to lose the rights to cricket for the first time in four decades. Picture: Getty

$1bn cricket deal to stump Nine

Cricket Australia will receive more than $1 billion over six years after selling its domestic media rights to Foxtel and a free-to-air network, with Nine tipped to lose the sport for the first time in four decades.

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Governor-General designate Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane Peter Hollingworth with wife Kathleen Ann holding cat Remus at home in Queensland 22 Apr 2001. cleric

Police search for ex-GG’s wife

A huge police search is underway in Melbourne after the wife of former Governor-General Peter Hollingworth went missing last night. Kathleen Ann Hollingworth, 81, was last seen outside her home in Malvern at about 9.30pm last night, according to Victoria police.

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Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton speaks during the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) ACSC2018 conference in Canberra, Wednesday, April 11, 2018. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Migrant numbers in sharp plunge

Australia’s permanent migration program is on track to fall this year to pre-2010 levels through tighter vetting rules, with the estimated cut anticipated to exceed the controversial 20,000 floated among cabinet ministers last year but ultimately rejected.

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TOPSHOT - Australia’s Kurtis Marschall competes in the athletics men's pole vault final during the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games at the Carrara Stadium on the Gold Coast on April 12, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Adrian DENNIS

Marschall’s leap to stardom

Pole vaulter Kurtis Marschall last night launched himself into the national consciousness as Australia’s next athletics star by beating former world champion Shawn Barber to win the Commonwealth Games gold medal.

Keep up with all the action from the Gold Coast in our live Commonwealth Games blog.

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Kudelka’s view

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