Your noon Briefing: PM praises Ita ahead of Cabinet decision

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

Hello readers. The PM has praised Ita Buttrose for lifting journalism standards ahead of her possible elevation to ABC leader, and is Berejiklian about to get bushwhacked?

Ita Buttrose ,Arrivals at the Harry M Miller Celebration of his life at the Capitol theatre Haymarket .pic John Grainger

PM praises Ita

Scott Morrison says few people have lifted the standards of journalism as Ita Buttrose with speculation mounting she will succeed Justin Milne.

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Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop attending the Australia China Business Council Canberra Networking Day 2018 at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

No one annoyed China more

China looks at Australia as a rich trading partner with dumb leadership and no one annoyed it more than Julie Bishop, writes Robert Gottliebsen.

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HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 24: Billy Porter attends the 91st Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood and Highland on February 24, 2019 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

Oscars curve ball

It’s all about pink on this year’s Oscars red carpet, but one actor has everyone talking with his tux-gown hybrid. Follow the action in our live Oscars blog.

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11/09/2018 Cartoonist Mark Knight at his studio after a global storm over his depiction of Serena Williams.Picture : David Geraghty / The Australian.

Serena cartoon cleared

The Australian Press Council has ruled that a controversial cartoon of tennis star Serena Williams by the Herald Sun’s Mark Knight did not breach media standards.

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NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian pictured in Sydney today, August 10, 2018. Picture: David Swift.

The long read: Bush whacking

Minority rule looms for NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian. Andrew Clennell has the story.

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Comment of the day

“Jordan Petersen, and others such as Sam Harris, Ben Shapiro, Bret and Eric Weinstein, Dave Rubin and others of the so-called Intellectual Dark Web are presenting ideas and conversations that resonate with many people who are fed up with the Main Stream Media, which has largely become an echo chamber for the ideology of the left, and worse: the far left. More power to them.”

Col, in response to ‘Life’s never just about happiness – it’s about meaning’.