Your noon Briefing: Don’t trust Labor in ‘uncertain world’, says PM

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

Hello readers. ScoMo says Bill Shorten’s economic agenda is not worth risking in troubled times, and Air New Zealand has a Rolls Royce rethink.

PM Scott Morrison in Qld at the Brothers Rugby Union Complex in Albion. Pic Annette Dew

Don’t trust Labor: PM

Scott Morrison has used US-China tensions to warn Bill Shorten’s economic agenda was the “worst thing” for the nation.

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Air New Zealand and Boeing show off the first delivered 787-9 Dreamliner at Boeing's delivery center at Paine Field in Everett, Wash., on Wednesday afternoon, July 9, 2014. This new Dreamliner, equipped with Rolls-Royce engines, is 20 feet longer than the original 787 and can typically carry 280 passengers. (AP Photo/The Seattle Times, Mike Siegel) SEATTLE OUT USA TODAY OUT MAGS OUT NO SALES TV OUT MANDATORY CREDIT: THE SEATTLE TIMES/MIKE SIEGEL

Rolls Royce rethink

Air New Zealand has put its entire fleet and network under review thanks in part to dramas with its Rolls-Royce engines.

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29/01/2019: Lidia Thorpe and Jacinta Price join a panel discussion with Kerri-Anne Kennerley following the controversy over KAK being labelled a racist by Yumi Styneson the program Studio10

Vile abuse

Facebook last night suspended the account of Jacinta Price for posting examples of vile abuse she received after she backed Kerri-Anne Kennerley.

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Vegas gunman stephen paddock

Motive ‘a mystery’

Stephen Paddock, responsible for the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history, sought notoriety but left his specific motive a mystery, says the FBI.

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Jonah Peretti, Founder and CEO, Buzzfeed, speaks at the Wall Street Journal Digital Conference in Laguna Beach, California, U.S. October 18, 2017. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson - RC13AE414600

The long read: Digital upstart loses its buzz

BuzzFeed’s fate is a reminder that free online media simply isn’t viable. David Swann has the story.

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Comment of the day

“Spot on, Jacinta. It’s a discussion that we have to have.

“Facts don’t care about feelings. Cries of a new stolen generation are hollow when there is a generation who have had their childhood stolen by alcohol and abuse.

“Someone has to speak for the women and children because the activists are too busy with changing the date and calling people racists.

“The numbers are too high to keep putting the issue in the too hard basket.”

Katherine, in response to ‘Virtue-signalling as innocents die’