Your noon Briefing

Here is your noon digest of what’s making news and a long read for lunchtime.

Hello readers. Here is your noon digest of what’s making news and a long read for lunchtime.

Former prime minister Tony Abbott is seen during the Pollie Pedal Bike Ride in Warragul, Victoria, Monday, April 9, 2018. Tony Abbott is sharing his words of wisdom as his coalition successor racks up the 30th Newspoll loss for the federal government. As Malcolm Turnbull matched the test he set when he deposed Mr Abbott, the former prime minister again urged the government to champion low power prices, by keeping coal, and higher wages, by cutting immigration. (AAP Image/Joe Castro) NO ARCHIVING

‘Tony will always cut across PM’

Senior government frontbencher Josh Frydenberg has ridiculed Tony Abbott’s ongoing destabilisation tactics in the wake of the former prime minister’s claim that Malcolm Turnbull was being “tricky” on the issue of migration levels.

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Indigenous protesters clash with police on the Gold Coast. Photo: Supplied

Police, protesters in heated clash

Several hundred police officers have confronted an indigenous protest near a major Commonwealth Games site, with at least one person taken to hospital.

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What Israel Folau told Raelene Castle

What Folau told rugby boss

Rugby Australia is terrified of losing Qantas as a sponsor, writes Alan Jones. But it is just as terrified of Israel Folau, who is refusing to back down, quitting.

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two glasses of rose wine on a whitewashed wall, blue ocean in the background

This much wine now bad news

Think you’re a moderate drinker? The largest study of its kind has very bad news for you.

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Cutouts of Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg are displayed outside the Capitol building ahead of his testimony this week. Picture: Bloomberg

Long read: Deep-grilled on the Hill

During the marathon questioning of Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on Capitol Hill this week, Democratic senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut said what many of his colleagues were thinking. “We’ve seen the apology tours before … I don’t see how you can change your business model unless there are different rules of the road,” he told the Facebook founder and chief executive. The extraordinary two-day grilling of Zuckerberg, which held Washington spellbound, shows how far Facebook has fallen in the eyes of US politicians.

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Comment of the day

“It’s symptomatic of a country that’s lost its marbles. Thirty years ago halo-polishers, big-mouths, wowsers and finger-waggers were routinely told where to get off.”

Jason, in response to What Folau told rugby boss.