Your noon Briefing: ABC boss warns of cuts to staff, services

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Hello readers. ABC boss warns of staff and service cuts post-budget, and Greg Sheridan laments our national shame.

9/2/18: Director of Television David Anderson at the ABC Annual Public meeting at Ultimo, Sydney. John Feder/The Australian.

ABC cuts

Acting ABC managing director David Anderson says “tough decisions” will need to be made on staffing and services in the wake of the budget.

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Opposition Leader Bill Shorten on a morning run at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Labor ‘lies, taxes’

Scott Morrison has warned that Bill Shorten’s budget-in-reply speech will be all “lies and taxes”. Keep up with the latest from Canberra in our live blog, PoliticsNow.

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Our national shame

Once again we embark on an election campaign without the single most important issue playing the slightest role — our Defence, writes Greg Sheridan.

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Timmothy Pitzen missing boy with age-porgressed pciture on right

Mystery boy

A teen who says he fled two kidnappers has told police he is a boy who vanished eight years ago.

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Radio waves spreading out from a mobile phone in a shopping mall with matrix style data layered on top.

The long read: Keeping an eye on you

In the digital age, Google is watching as you shop, walk and even sleep. Chris Griffith reports.

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Comment of the day

“Since 2007 I have lost confidence in politics. I am a swinging voter. I am impressed Morrison, who is trying to set a new page. I will avoid rethinking the past and vote for the present, can’t stand Shorten.”

Fred, in response to ‘Dollars count, but the election will be about trust’.