Your noon Briefing: ‘No reason’ not to place Hanson last

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Hello readers. Kelly O’Dwyer thinks One Nation should be preferenced last, and a very good day for Donald Trump.

Minister for Jobs Kelly O'Dwyer delivers a press conference in the Blue Room at Parliament House, in Canberra, Thursday, February 21, 2019. A record number of Australians are in work, with seasonally adjusted employment increasing by 39,100 in January 2019, to stand at a record high, of 12,751,800. (AAP Image/Sam Mooy) NO ARCHIVING

‘Preference One Nation last’

An outgoing cabinet minister says she “can’t see any reason” why the Liberals would not put One Nation last on their election how-to-vote cards, after Scott Morrison slammed One Nation’s attempts to secure $20 million in donations from America’s gun lobby.

One Nation has spectacularly accused international news organisation Al-Jazeera of being “foreign agents” and referred it to ASIO and the AFP for interfering in Australian elections, after the news channel revealed Pauline Hanson’s right hand man sought $20m in donations from America’s gun lobby.

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Jordan Peterson posed for a photo with a fan wearing an anti-Islam t-shirt

Why we axed Peterson

Cambridge University’s vice-chancellor explains why its school of divinity withdrew a visiting fellowship from Jordan Peterson.

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A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May answering a question in the House of Commons in London on March 25, 2019 on the next steps that parliament will take in the Brexit process. - Prime Minister Theresa May admitted Monday she had still not secured the votes needed to get her Brexit deal through parliament, raising again the prospect that Britain could crash out of the European Union in two weeks' time. (Photo by Jessica TAYLOR / UK PARLIAMENT / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - NO USE FOR ENTERTAINMENT, SATIRICAL, ADVERTISING PURPOSES - MANDATORY CREDIT " AFP PHOTO /JESSICA TAYLOR/ UK Parliament"

She’s lost control again

In the latest ignominy for Theresa May, the Conservative party has lost control of Brexit after backbenchers seized control of the parliamentary order paper in an unprecedented move to find a majority for any Brexit option.

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President Donald Trump gestures after stepping off Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Sunday, March 24, 2019, in Washington. The Justice Department said Sunday that special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation did not find evidence that President Donald Trump's campaign "conspired or coordinated" with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The long read: Trump’s good news day

Cameron Stewart pieces together a very good day for Donald Trump.

“After 22 painstaking months of investigation involving 2800 subpoenas, 500 search warrants, 230 orders for communication records and 500 witness interviews, the principal findings of Mueller’s Russia probe finally were released.”