Your noon Briefing: I’ll take half a win, says Shorten

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

Hello readers. The glass is half full for the Opposition Leader on encryption laws, and a disastrous start with the bat for Australia on Day Two of the Adelaide Test against India.

PM Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten cross paths during a division in the House of Representatives Chamber at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

‘Half a win’

Bill Shorten says he will “take half a win” on encryption laws and that Scott Morrison’s claim he has softened on border protection due to his support for medical evacuations is “rubbish”. The Prime Minister has continued to label Mr Shorten a “threat to national security” over the delays in legislating encryption laws and Labor’s support for the Nauru amendments.

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Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of the founder

Huawei warning

US technology executives have been warned to delay travel to China in the wake of the weekend arrest of Huawei’s chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, as concerns rise about Chinese reaction to the move which could see her sent to the US to face charges.

Robert Gottliebsen, meantime, writes that we have taken the communications system of our defence partner and not our trading partner, and that has repercussions.

“If I were a US tech executive I would delay travel to China or go on a vacation if I was based there.”

US-based China watcher, Bill Bishop

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23/05/2018: Robyn Wheeler at home in Hamilton South, Newcastle, and at Bar Beach, Newcastle. To go with upcoming Hedley Thomas podcast on the disappearance of Lyn Dawson in 1982. Her husband at the time was Chris Dawson, a former Rugby League player. Robyn is a former student of Chris Dawson at Cromer High School in the early 1980s. Liam Driver for The Australian

Teachers’ pets

The former northern beaches student who first spoke out about predatory teachers on the northern beaches in the wake of The Teacher’s Pet podcast revelations says police are building a ‘significant dossier’on teacher-student sex in the 1980s beyond the Chris Dawson case.

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Aaron Finch of Australia is bowled by iIshant Sharma of India during day two of the first Test match between Australia and India at the Adelaide Oval in Adelaide, Friday, December 7, 2018. (AAP Image/David Mariuz) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY, IMAGES TO BE USED FOR NEWS REPORTING PURPOSES ONLY, NO COMMERCIAL USE WHATSOEVER, NO USE IN BOOKS WITHOUT PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT FROM AAP

Duck for Finch

The off and middle stumps at the River End have been retrieved and reinstated after they were sent flying by Ishant Sharma three balls into Australia’s innings. Aaron Finch played onto his stumps trying to expansively drive at a ball that seamed back but was not there for the stroke. Follow the action in our live Test Match blog.

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The long read: Transforming Byron

It used to be famous as a hippies’ retreat. Now Byron Bay is the ultimate playground for billionaires. Milanda Rout assesses the transformation in the latest issue of luxury bible Wish.