Your noon Briefing: PM orders Libs to drop One Nation

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

Hello readers. ScoMo says drop One Nation like it’s hot, and Greg Sheridan ponders the political genius of Donald Trump.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison was joined by the Member for Banks and Minister for Immigration David Coleman in Hurstville, Sydney, Wednesday, March 27, 2019. The Prime Minister was announcing a $250 million dollar congestion-busting funding boost. (AAP Image/Dean Lewins) NO ARCHIVING

‘Drop One Nation’

The PM says the Libs will put One Nation below Labor on how-to-vote cards, while warning of the “serious threat” of the Greens.

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Adam Bandt at a Press conference at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Greens’ coal ban challenge

Scott Morrison has lashed Bill Shorten for lack of detail on climate targets as Greens reveal radical plans to kill off the coal export industry.

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27/03/19 Board member and director Sue Morphett. Aaron Francis/The Australian

Female club hits back

Female company director Sue Morphet has come out swinging against controversial comments made by “last century’’ Graeme Samuel.

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WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 26: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media after he arrived at a Senate Republican weekly policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol March 26, 2019 in Washington, DC. Congressional top Democrats have demanded Attorney General William Barr to release special counsel Robert Muellers investigation report for the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

Trump’s political genius

Donald Trump is lucky in his enemies but he creates his own fortune by driving them so crazy they make terrible judgements, writes Greg Sheridan.

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(COMBO) This combination of file pictures created on March 26, 2019 shows (L) Rajasthan Royals' Jos Buttler walking back to the pavilion after he was dismissed by Kings XI Punjab's Ravichandran Ashwin during the 2019 Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 cricket match between Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur on March 25; and (R) Ashwin reacting after dismissing Buttler during the same match at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur. - Spin legend Shane Warne led criticism of India's Ravichandran Ashwin on March 26 after a controversial run-out which put cricket's unloved 'Mankad' dismissal in the spotlight (Photos by Money SHARMA / AFP) / IMAGE RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - STRICTLY NO COMMERCIAL USE

‘Against spirit of game’

The MCC has given new life to the controversy over Ravi Ashwin’s mankad of Jos Buttler. Peter Lalor reports.

“To clarify, it has never been in the laws that a warning should be given to the nonstriker and nor is it against the spirit of cricket to run out a nonstriker who is seeking to gain an advantage by leaving his/her ground early.”

MCC

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Pauline Hanson is in Perth. AT SSAA Shot Expo at the Claremont Showgrounds. Pictured - Pauline Hanson handles a rifle from Beaton Firearms. With Colin TincknellSen. Peter Georgiou, Ron Bryant (President of Sporting Shooters Ass. of Australia) and Zaine Beaton (gun manufacturer)Picture: Daniel Wilkins

The long read: A trigger-happy party

Guns have been a part of One Nation’s DNA from the day it was launched nearly 22 years ago, writes Jamie Walker.

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Comment of the day

“Why aren’t you calling out the ALP for preferencing the socialist Greens? They are the hard left of the political spectrum and are much more of a danger to our way of life, to jobs, to our sovereign borders, to our children’s future than PHON ever will be!

“I despise the hypocrisy where every numpty in the main stream media jump on the Coalition to try and shame them into not doing preference deals with the right of centre parties, yet no one raises any concern about the unholy alliance between the ALP and the far left.”

Another Peter, in response to ‘It’s not the time for PM to let Hanson ride shotgun’.