Your noon Briefing: ScoMo: Tamil family has to leave

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Hello readers. The PM will not intervene to stop a Tamil family being deported, and Eurydice’s killer jailed for life.

A supplied image obtained Saturday, August 31, 2019 of Priya, her husband Nadesalingam and their Australian-born children Kopika, 4, and Tharunicaa, 2. A Tamil asylum seeker family has been transported to Christmas Island after being given a reprieve against deportation from Australia until Wednesday. (AAP Image/hometobilo.com) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

PM: Tamil family has to leave

Scott Morrison will not intervene to stop a Tamil family being deported from Australia, saying an “exception here or there” would only kick-start the people-smuggling trade. Labor targets PM’s faith Joel Fitzgibbon, meantime, accuses Scott Morrison of hypocrisy for “preaching the Gospel” while staring down pleas to not deport a Tamil family.

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House prices show early signs of recovery

August data shows low rates have helped spark increased confidence and early signs of a recovery in the housing market.

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uerydice dixon and jaymes todd

Eurydice’s ‘evil’ killer jailed for life

Jaymes Todd is sentenced to life with a non-parole period of 35 years for the rape and murder of Eurydice Dixon after stalking her on foot through Melbourne.

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LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 30: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson takes questions from young people aged between 9-14 to coincide with an education announcement at 10 Downing Street on August 30, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Jeremy Selwyn - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Boris threatens rebels: I’ll kick you out

Rebel MPs who block no-deal will lose the whip and be banned from standing as Tories.

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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, 16, arrives in the US after a 15-day journey crossing the Atlantic in the Malizia II, a zero-carbon yacht, on August 28, 2019 in New York. - "Land!! The lights of Long Island and New York City ahead," she tweeted early Wednesday. She later wrote on Twitter that her yacht had anchored off the entertainment district of Coney Island in Brooklyn to clear customs and immigration. (Photo by Kena Betancur / AFP)

‘My Asperger’s is a superpower’

Greta Thunberg has struck back, saying the syndrome makes her “a bit different from the norm”.