Your noon Briefing: Singo eyes $80m Macquarie payday

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Hello readers. Singo stands to make $80m if plans to sell his Macquarie holding succeed, and flight-free travel trend means tense times for airlines.

08/11/2016: Ray Hadley, John Singleton and Alan Jones at 2GB in Pyrmont, celebrating 100 consecutive radio ratings wins.Pic by James Croucher

Singo eyes $80m Macquarie payday

John Singleton stands to make $80m if he makes good on plans to sell his big Macquarie holding. But it could have been more.

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Committee chair Andrew Hastie reacts during a hearing of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security at Parliament House in Canberra, Wednesday, July 31, 2019. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Agencies ‘back Hastie’

One of Labor’s most influential figures on national security has broadly backed Andrew Hastie’s concerns over China.

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colorful coral reef with many fishes and sea turtle

Reef science beyond latte crowd

In the regions we want evidence before we close down our big employers in the name of “saving the Great Barrier Reef, when some of the “science” on which the new reef legislation is based looks very dubious, writes Peter Ridd.

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A course for disaster

Our unis are short-changing students and opening the door for China to trump our education exports, writes Robert Gottliebsen.

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The silhouette of a passenger plane flying in sunset.

The long read: Greens on flight of fancy

As environmental activists lobby for flight-free travel, the airlines have started taking note as division and tension spreads through the industry. Robyn Ironside reports.