Your noon Briefing

Welcome to your noon digest of what’s been making news and what to watch for.

Hello readers. Here is your noon roundup of today’s top stories and a long read for lunchtime.

PM Malcolm Turnbull at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

‘Biased, inaccurate’

Malcolm Turnbull has taken aim at ABC journalists, accusing them of inaccuracy, bias and has expressed his disappointment in the quality of the broadcaster’s reporting during an interview with Melbourne’s 3AW radio station this morning.

“I think often some presenters and programs are biased more to the left, but what I’ve found disappointing in recent times is the quality of the journalism, it is the lack of accuracy.”

Malcolm Turnbull

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James Gargasoulas (centre) is transferred from a prison van at the Supreme Court in Melbourne, Tuesday, June 19, 2018. (AAP Image/Julian Smith) NO ARCHIVING

Jury discharged

A Melbourne jury has been discharged after being unable to determine whether accused Bourke Street killer James Gargasoulas is mentally fit to stand trial. Mr Gargasoulas, 28, is charged with six counts of murder and 28 counts of attempted murder relating to the January 2017 incident in Melbourne’s CBD. A special hearing in the Victorian Supreme Court last week heard Mr Gargasoulas suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and believes he is the messiah and will save the world from “cataclysmic destruction”.

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Fatima Mehajer arrives at Central Local Court, Sydney, Thursday June 14, 2018. Salim Mehajer and Fatima Mehajer are to expected to be sentenced for voter fraud. (AAP Image/Peter Rae) NO ARCHIVING

Salim’s sister

Fatima Mehajer, the sister of disgraced businessman Salim Mehajer, has escaped a jail sentence for electoral fraud today after a NSW magistrate conceded Ms Mehajer had committed the crimes under the heavy family pressure of “Team Salim”. Downing Centre magistrate Beverley Schurr said her decision to give 28 year old Ms Mehajer a two month suspended prison sentence was based largely on Ms Mehajer’s clear contrition for helping her brother rig votes in the lead up to the 2012 Auburn local council elections.

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Jeff Bezos, chief executive officer Amazon.com Inc., arrives at the Robin Hood Foundations annual benefit in New York, U.S., on Monday, May 12, 2014. The annual event last year raised $80.7 million for the foundation, which fights poverty in New York City by supporting more than 200 nonprofits with financial and technical assistance. Photographer: Peter Foley/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The long read: Amazon takes Washington

Jeff Bezos’s online retail giant is now a leading lobbyist in the US capital.

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Comment of the day

“Go Pauline! It’s high time that this union flunkey was exposed and challenged; something that Turnbull is incapable of, given the history of past performances.”

Linda, in response to ‘Bill Shorten would be our worst PM, says Pauline Hanson’.