Your noon Briefing: Matthew Guy dismisses poor polling for Victorian election

Hello readers. Everything you need to know as Victorians prepare to head to the polls and Kenneth Hayne loses patience with ASIC chair.

Hello readers. Everything you need to know as Victorians prepare to head to the polls and Kenneth Hayne loses his patience with the ASIC chair’s longwinded waffle.

Victorian opposition Leader Matthew Guy with his wife Renae Guy at Cranbourne railway station in Melbourne, Friday, November 23, 2018. Victoria goes to the polls on Saturday for the state election. (AAP Image/David Crosling) NO ARCHIVING

‘Forget polls, we have a good chance’

Victorian Opposition Leader Matthew Guy has batted away polling showing that the Liberals are on track for a drubbing in Saturday’s state election, but as Jack the Insider writes, the overwhelming view is Labor will win comfortably. To help you digest the Victorian election analysis, Peta Credlin and Stephen Conroy hand down their take on the likely result.

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Financial services royal commissioner Kenneth Hayne at hearings in Sydney. Picture: Supplied

‘I really do not understand’

Royal commissioner Kenneth Hayne has lost patience with ASIC chair James Shipton’s longwinded waffle and inability to clearly explain what he needs to be doing.

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In this Aug. 25, 2017, photo, Gen. Col. Igor Korobov, the head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, speaks during a news conference in the Russian Defense Ministry's headquarters in Moscow, Russia. The head of the Russian military intelligence agency GRU which has been accused of meddling in the U.S. elections has died in Moscow. He was 62. The Defense Ministry said Thursday, Nov. 22, 2018, in a statement that Korobov, who led the GRU since 2016, died Wednesday of "a lengthy and grave illness," a usual Russian euphemism for cancer. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Russian ‘poison’ spy chief dead

The head of Russia’s GRU intelligence agency, whose spies are accused of carrying out the Salisbury poisonings, has died in Moscow.

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A group of multietnic students celebrating their graduation by throwing caps in the air. Education, qualification and gown concept.

Law degree gives quickest return

A postgraduate law degree has the fastest payback of all postgraduate courses. Read The Australian’s Postgrad magazine for your complete guide to postgraduate courses and jobs.

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Long read: So, who did kill Winchester?

If not David Eastman, then who did kill the Australian Federal Police’s number two cop?