Your noon Briefing: Bid to stop stadium demolition fails

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

Hello readers. Malcolm Turnbull barges in to the Warringah debate from London, amid an unlikely union between Tony Abbott and Zali Steggall over ALP policy.

Malcolm Turnbull has blasted Tony Abbott.

Mal attacks

Malcolm Turnbull is the surprise entrant in the Warringah debate, attacking Tony Abbott in a series of tweets from London over renewables. This followed a clash between Abbott and Zali Steggall over transport, but an uneasy rapprochment over fears about growing levels of immigration.

“Today the cheapest form of new dispatchable or base load energy is renewables plus storage. We are now able to have lower emissions and lower prices but we need to plan it using engineering & economics rather than ideology and innumerate idiocy.”

Malcolm Turnbull

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Aerial shots of the demolition of Allianz Stadium at Moore Park. Picture: Toby Zerna

Stadium demolition bid fails

The NSW Land and Environment Court has rejected a bid to grant an injunction to stop demolition work on the Allianz Stadium.

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on June 15, 2018, Paul Manafort arrives for a hearing at US District Court in Washington, DC. - Manafort, US President Donald Trump's former campaign chief, was sentenced on March 7, 2019 to 47 months in prison for tax crimes and bank fraud (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

4 years for Manafort

Paul Manafort has been sentenced to less than four years jail, a dramatically lower sentence than Robert Mueller requested.

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Bugatti La Voiture Noire

Top marque

At $17.5m, the new Bugatti is the most expensive new car to be made. And it’s already been sold to an enthusiast. Philip King gets revved up.

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25/2/19: Angeline Penrith at Redfern Park in Sydney. Story is about ParentsNext, which forces Mums like her into doing various activities to get their money., John Feder/The Australian.

The long read: Single-mother overload

A new Centrelink program aimed at getting single mums into the work force is being criticised as doing more harm than good, writes Caroline Overington.