Your noon Briefing: PM: ALP carbon costs will hit $35bn

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

Hello readers. Labor’s carbon costs are closer to $35bn, according to the PM, and Borce Ristevski gets 9 years for his wife’s manslaughter.

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Labor carbon costs ‘to hit $35bn’

Scott Morrison says Australian businesses will be slugged $35bn under the ALP’s emissions reduction target, $10bn more than experts claim. Keep up with the latest from the campaign trail in our live blog, PoliticsNow.

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Borce Ristevski arrives to the Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne, Thursday, April 18, 2019. Melbourne man Borce Ristevski will be sentenced for the manslaughter of his wife Karen, whose body was found in a forest, eights months after her death. (AAP Image/James Ross) NO ARCHIVING

Borce Ristevski sentenced

Borce Ristevski, who killed his wife Karen of 27 years and dumped her body in bushland, has been sentenced to nine years.

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Greg Combet for The Deal April 2019. Picture: Nick Cubbin

Super man

The former union leader and Labor MP has super powers in one of the nation’s key financial systems. And he’s not afraid to exercise it. Ewin Hannan reports in The Deal.

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Melbourne Storm chairman Bart Campbell (left) and suspended St George forward Jack de Belin.

‘Sponsors fled after summer of hell’

Storm chair tells the Federal Court that NRL scandals hurt club’s sponsorship chase in 2019. Brent Read has the story.

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Former JCU climate scientist Peter Ridd preparing with his legal team barrister Benjamin Kidston, QC Stuart Wood, lawyer Mitchell Downes, barrister Benjamin Jellis, on last day of a Federal Court hearing, John Jarrard Chambers, Brisbane. Mr Ridd claims he was unfairly dismissed from his job with the university for publicly voicing his opinions on climate change and coral bleaching which contradicted his colleaguesÕ research. Photographer: Liam Kidston. NO BYLINE.

The long read: Free to defy orthodoxy

Peter Ridd’s win against James Cook University has touched a raw nerve about the health of academic freedom of speech. Graham Lloyd reports.