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 round-up of today’s top stories so far and a long read for lunchtime.

Barnaby Joyce has renewed his call for privacy law overhaul.

Joyce stoush

Barnaby Joyce has defended his actions after an extraordinary altercation with a photographer outside a church yesterday, reiterating his calls for a “tort of privacy” to protect people like his partner Vikki Campion and their son Sebastian from the media. The former deputy prime minister yesterday took to Twitter to post footage of the clash with Matrix Picture Agency photographer Guy Finlay, who was filmed accusing Mr Joyce of sizing him up to punch him.

“The thing was, we had a person who didn’t identify themselves, was hiding in among trees, obviously it’s an issue for Vikki, it’s an issue for Seb, for Sebastian, and if someone was hiding outside your grandkids’ house and they didn’t identify themselves, would you go up and say g’day to them?”

Barnaby Joyce

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses a press conference at the conclusion of the G7 summit in La Malbaie, Quebec, June 9, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Lars Hagberg

‘Back-stabber’

The US has blamed Canada for the disastrous ending to the G7 summit, saying Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “stabbed us in the back” while American allies held Washington responsible. Just minutes after a joint G7 communique was published Saturday in summit host city Quebec, President Donald Trump launched a Twitter broadside, taking exception to comments made by Mr Trudeau at a news conference and saying he had instructed US representatives not to endorse the joint communique.

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Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull poses for a selfie at the Seniors Forum at the Sandstone Point Hotel, in Brisbane, Thursday, June 7, 2018. (AAP Image/Glenn Hunt) NO ARCHIVING

1000 days of Mal

Malcolm Turnbull has passed a prime ministerial milestone, chalking up 1000 days in the nation’s top job. The Prime Minister reached the 1000-day mark yesterday — the 17th of 26 prime ministers to do so — passing the occasion without fanfare, reading cabinet briefs at home in Point Piper. Mr Turnbull overtook Australia’s first prime minister, Sir Edmund Barton (997 days), on Friday. If he can hold out until September 19, which seems fairly likely, he will have risen to 14th on the list and delivered the most stable period of government since John Howard.

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John Lethlean pays tribute to Anthony Bourdain.

Aloof, off camera

He had, quite possibly, the best job in the world. Was almost certainly making good money. Television and books had made him famous way beyond the food world from which he had sprung. And he was in a newish relationship with Italian actress Asia Argento who, apparently, adored him. I didn’t much like him but, hell, I really respected Anthony Bourdain, writes John Lethlean.

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N T H Korea's Leader

The long read: Kim strides world stage

The North Korean leader has seized his moment ahead of Trump summit in Singapore, writes John Lyons of the Wall Street Journal. However Holman W. Jenkins, Jr concludes the summit is all upside for Trump.

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Comment of the day

“Can we have Johannes (Leak) as full time cartoonist @ The Australian?”

Ross, in response to Media Diary.