Your noon Briefing: New submarine contract signed with French

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

Hello readers. Australia’s first new submarines could be battle-ready by 2034, and lawyers warn against hasty banking law reform.

Australia's new Attack class submarines.

Battle ready ‘by 2034’

The first of Australia’s fleet of 12 new submarines could be battle-ready by 2034 after the signing of a key contract with contractor Naval Group.

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New South Wales Bar Association president Arthur Moses SC is calling for an independent review of the compulsory third party insurance scheme for motorists.

‘Don’t rush’

The Law Council of Australia has warned rushed banking legislation would fail to deliver justice for thousands of victims.

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Minister for Small Business Michaelia Cash during Question Time in the Senate chamber at Parliament House in Canberra, Monday, November 26, 2018. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Office ‘on trial’

The integrity of Michaelia Cash’s office is under scrutiny in the Federal Court over controversial police raids, the AWU claims.

“We think when the full case is run, documents presented in front of court, we’re hopeful the judge will see this has been a massive overstep and misuse of political resources.”

Daniel Walton, AWU national secretary

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Old people take over the gym

Superfit 60s

A new, hard-bodied fitness tribe is in the gym every day and not just doing yoga.

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13/7/05 Zoran Tadic leaving Liverpool Local Court. He is charged with assault occassioning actual bodily harm and is due to be sentences on Friday 15 July 2005.

The long read: Slaughter of innocents

Secret files blame a Sydney man for one of Serbia’s worst war crimes. Jacquelin Magnay reports.

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Comment of the day

“Living in China will be a good reality check for Jones and Ferguson and their preference for socialism. They are welcome to stay there forever.”

Leslie, in response to ‘Q&A’s Tony Jones pens novels in China’.