Your noon Briefing: Leaks evidence ‘destroyed’: AFP

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Hello readers. The AFP believes evidence was destroyed in the AWU raid leak affair, and 10 top Hong Kong watering holes for armchair imbibers.

Minister for Small Business Michaelia Cash to make a statement in the Senate chamber at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, February 14, 2019. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Evidence ‘destroyed’

The AFP thought there was enough evidence to lay charges over the AWU raid leak affair, but

believes evidence was destroyed.

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Tony Abbott listening to PM Scott Morrison speaking on Closing the Gap Statement in the House of Representatives Chamber at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Abbott blast

Tony Abbott has attacked Zali Steggall’s conservative credentials, saying a vote for an independent is a vote for Labor. Keep up with the latest from parliament in our live blog, PoliticsNow.

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Bottles of A2 milk are displayed in a fridge in Sydney on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016. The A2 Milk Company will today be holding their Annual General Meeting. (AAP Image/Paul Miller) NO ARCHIVING

Halt to $1 milk

Woolworths will pull dollar-a-litre milk off its shelves in support of a more sustainable Australian dairy industry.

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Franking Tax.Derek and Lyn Wells of Echunga in Adelaide SA have been affected by these introduced taxes saying they are unfair.Friday, 8th February, 2019.Pic Roy VanDerVegt

Retirement risk

Veterinary surgeon Derek Wells laments his retirement plans have been thrown into disarray because of Labor’s dividend plan.

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Dragonfly, Central, HK Island: Inspired by interior designer Ashley Sutton’s apprenticeship in stained glass and love of art nouveau, this dramatic cocktail lounge is awash with mosaics, stained glass and cast iron in every hue of blue, plus cutting-edge cocktails, of course. In the newly opened Tai Kwun art and dining compound in the repurposed colonial-era Central Police Station, Dragonfly captures the decadence of Europe’s bohemian era; so much so that sitting at the bar under the twinkling ceiling of upturned mosaic glass lamps, the only reminder that you are in Hong Kong and not Prague or Paris is bar manager Brent Flowers’s Dragon’s Pearls cocktail of jasmine milk tea mixed with mandarin, gin and cognac that riffs on ubiquitous Chinese bubble tea drinks; diningconcepts.com/restaurants/Dragonfly

The light read: City slickers

Jo Makito, Shannon Harley and Susan Kurosawa bring you 10 fabulous cocktail joints with attitude in Hong Kong.

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Comment of the day

“I’ve read Peterson’s book like millions of others. The idea of race and all the other leftist

buzzwords don’t even get a mention.

“His book is about one thing: living a better life. Just because that better life doesn’t involve playing identity politics and bringing others down to your miserable level, they think he’s bad. “But his message is about positivity, optimism, inclusion, hard work and honesty. What is there to protest about exactly?”

Chris, in response to ‘Standing ovation for rock star psychologist’.