Your noon Briefing: Green light for Adani mine one step away

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Hello readers. The Adani mine moves closer to reality with approval for bird protection, and man killed as threesome goes wrong.

Supplied undated image obtained Friday, July 14, 2017 of a southern black-throated finch. The Adani coal mine will put an endangered finch on a fast track to extinction, experts trying to save it have warned the federal government. The southern black-throated finch will lose prime habitat to the Carmichael coal mine in Queensland's Galilee Basin and Adani's plan to offset those effects are grossly inadequate, the Black-throated Finch Recovery Team warns in a new report. (AAP Image/Birdlife Australia, Eric Vanderduys) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Adani closer

Adani clears one of the major hurdles for its Carmichael coal mine, winning approval for its black-throated finch management plan.

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Wheelie bin ice threesome murder

A Melbourne man who murdered his girlfriend’s lover in a jealous rage before stuffing the body in a wheelie bin has been jailed for 21 years. Jason Considine, 36, was sentenced by the Supreme Court of Victoria on Friday after admitting to murdering 45-year-old Ashley Phillips after the couple had invited him over for a threesome

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Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese at Parliament House House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Albo: Shorten was right

Anthony Albanese admits he agrees with Bill Shorten that “vested interests” had a hand in the party’s federal election defeat.

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15/04/19 Liberal member for Goldstein, Tim Wilson arrives for the launch of Troy Bramston's book, Robert Menzies: the art of politics at Hawthorn town hall. Aaron Francis/The Australian

Rebel Lib falls foul of party

Ministers get behind fallen MP Sarah Henderson to fill upcoming vacant Victorian Senate spot as Tim Wilson refuses to back her.

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Kim executes US envoy

Kim Jong-un reportedly has executed five senior officials in a purge over the failed summit with Donald Trump.

A caricature depicting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is displayed in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, May 26, 2019. In an apparent contradiction of his national security adviser, President Donald Trump on Sunday downplayed recent North Korean missile tests, tweeting from Tokyo that they're not a concern for him in comments sure to unnerve Japanese leaders. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)