Your noon Briefing: Albanese told: dump Setka from CFMEU

Your 2-minute digest of the day’s top stories and a long read.

Hello readers. Peter Dutton calls Albo weak for not demanding Setka’s union ousting, and what lies behind ‘Spygate’?

12/06/19 CFMEU secretary John Setka during a press conference with his wife Emma Walters at ETU headquarters in Melbourne. Aaron Francis/The Australian

‘Dump Setka’

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton says Anthony Albanese is “weak” for not demanding John Setka’s expulsion from the CFMEU.

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Jeremy Corbyn and Josh Frydo

Treasurer flays Corbyn

Josh Frydenberg has delivered an extraordinary attack on polarising British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn during a speech in London.

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David Warner speaks to the media following his star performance against Pakistan. Picture: Getty Images

‘Candice kept my career going’

David Warner has paid tribute to his wife, revealing he feared his Australian career was over when he’d struggle to get out of bed after the ball-tampering saga.

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John Bradfield, Civil Engineer . Images of alternative designs for SHB. Photo: State Library of NSW The journey to build the Bridge would take over a century to complete, and it would stretch its city’s resources to breaking point. In the end it would unite Sydney as a global city, but at many points along the way, it was a dream that was almost never realised. The construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge was a story of tumult and triumph. This five-part series traces the journey of this enormous undertaking and tells the story of the people who made the Sydney Harbour Bridge a reality. It was a public works feat that made it a modern marvel of its time. Owner System

Inland, see

After 81 years, John Bradfield’s visionary plan to turn Queensland rivers inland is back on the agenda, writes Robert Gottliebsen.

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Senate hopeful Jacqui Lambie votes in Burnie. PICTURE CHRIS KIDD

Lambie scrapes back

The outspoken Jacqui Lambie will make her mark in the Senate once again, after the Tasmanian won the state’s sixth and final upper house spot at the May 18 election.

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US President Donald Trump arrives to speak during the Republican Party of Iowa Annual Dinner at The Ron Pearson Center in West Des Moines, Iowa on June 11, 2019. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

The long read: What lies behind ‘Spygate’

Was there malice aforethought in the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s possible collusion with Russia? Cameron Stewart has the story.