Your noon Briefing: Setka threatens to pull Labor donations

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Hello readers. Embattled union boss John Setka threatens to pull funding from Labor, and the big kid behind Fortnite.

12/06/2019 CFMEU Victorian Secretary John Setka arrives at ACTU in Melbourne to meet with ACTU Secretary Sally McManus.Picture: David Geraghty / The Australian.

Setka threat

Union boss John Setka has threatened to legally challenge his expulsion from the Labor Party and halt all donations to Labor. Tikky Fullerton writes that Mr Setka has single-handedly gifted the government the power to deliver a body blow to the CFMEU.

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French Open champion Ash Barty has sent a thinly-veiled message to Nick Kyrgios and Bernard Tomic. Picture: Getty Images

Barty v brats

In a swipe at Bernard Tomic and Nick Kyrgios, Ash Barty says she values respect above winning.

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In this image from video and taken with a drone, protesters fill the Hennesy Road in Hong Kong, Sunday, June 16, 2019. Hong Kong citizens marched for hours Sunday in a massive protest that drew a late-in-the-day apology from the city's top leader for her handling of legislation that has stoked fears of expanding control from Beijing in this former British colony.(Cable TV Hong Kong via AP)

‘Foreign meddling’

Beijing lashes out at hypocritical foreign interference in the affairs of Hong Kong.

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Fortnite game. Supplied

The long read: Fortnite a game changer

Meet the tech giant Tim Sweeney, the $7bn man whose video game is changing the way kids play. Supratim Akhikari writes that Battle Royale mode has turned Fortnite into an irresistible lure for kids and a source of anxiety for parents.

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Italian director Franco Zeffirelli in a 05/1992 file photo.

Obituary: Master of grand beauty

The life of Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli, it was often noted, would have made a good opera.