Your noon Briefing: Shorten: I misunderstood super question

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

Hello readers. Bill Shorten says he misunderstood a question on taxes on super, and the Caliphate cubs who want to come home.

NEWS2019ELECTION 17/4/2019. DAY 7Opposition Leader Bill Shorten doing a morning run around swan river in Perth, WA . Picture Kym Smith

‘I misunderstood’

Bill Shorten has crabwalked away from his claim there would be no new taxes on superannuation if he becomes prime minister, declaring he misunderstood the question which caused his $34 billion gaffe.

He has also costed natural disasters as result of climate change at $18bn, claims Labor’s 45pc carbon emissions policy would cost no more than the Coalition’s. Keep up with the latest from the campaign trail in our live blog, PoliticsNow.

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Jean-Marc Fournier, fire, crown of thorns.

Hero priest

A priest who braved bullets to help wounded in the Bataclan attack went again into the line of fire to save Notre Dame cathedral’s treasures.

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NEWS2019ELECTION17/4/2019. DAY7/Job1The Prime Minister Scott Morrison on the election campaign in Davenport, Tasmania with Michael McCormack, Richard Colbeck Senator Steve Martin- Nationals Senator for Tasmania, Gavin Pearce- Liberal Candidate for Braddon, Sally Milbourne- National Candidate for Braddon and Jim Ertler- Managing Director of Premium Fresh carrot farm.Picture Gary Ramage

Worst day yet

The PM and Josh Frydenberg gave Bill Shorten his worst day in years but are voters listening? Troy Bramston weighs in.

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A man has become the first person sentenced in Victoria under its coward punch laws.

Decade in jail

A heart surgeon’s killer is the first person sentenced under Victoria’s “coward punch’’ laws.

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MUST CREDIT ABC'S FOUR CORNERSScreengrabs from an ABC Four Corners episode Orphans of ISISKaren Nettleton is reunited with her grandchildren after they spent five years with Islamic State.It is the first time she has seen Zaynab, Hoda and Humzeh Sharrouf since they were taken by their mother Tara Nettleton, wife of notorious Islamic State (IS) fighter Khaled Sharrouf — to join the terrorist organisation in Syria and Iraq

The long read: Caliphate cubs

Khaled Sharrouf spent four years transforming his kids into villains of ISIS. It took their grandmother one hour of TV to take them back. Paul Maley reports.