Your noon Briefing

Here is your noon digest of what’s making news and a long read for lunchtime.

Hello readers. Here is your noon digest of what’s making news and a long read for lunchtime.

Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton speaks during the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) ACSC2018 conference in Canberra, Wednesday, April 11, 2018. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Dutton confirms migrant talks

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has confirmed he discussed changing Australia’s immigration intake with senior colleagues. Mr Dutton this morning said he supported Malcolm Turnbull’s denial of the revelation, published in The Australian, despite going on to confirm a lot of the story’s content.

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10/04/2018Federal Leader of the Opposition Bill Shorten at Stirling Civic Gardens, StirlingPic Colin Murty The Australian

Shorten looking for a safer seat

Bill Shorten has confirmed he is considering switching from his seat of Maribyrnong in Melbourne to the newly created safer seat of Fraser following a rewriting of federal electoral boundaries.

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Salim Mehajer arrives to the Central Local Court in Sydney, Wednesday, April 11, 2018. (AAP Image/David Moir) NO ARCHIVING

Mehajer guilty of electoral fraud

Controversial Sydney businessman Salim Mehajer has been found guilty of being part of a 2012 electoral fraud plot that helped put him on Auburn City Council.

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GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 10: Joseph Deng of Australia competes in the Men's 800 metres heats during the Athletics on day six of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games at Carrara Stadium on April 10, 2018 on the Gold Coast, Australia. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images)

Australia’s next big track star?

The story of how Joseph Deng came to Australia as a child is amazing. And the next chapter could be just as awe-inspiring. Keep up with all the action in our live Commonwealth Games blog.

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The Clean Energy Finance Corporation says the market needs to better understand the trade-off between accessing higher quality and more geographically balanced renewable energy resources and increasing investment in transmission.

Long read: The struggle for power

In the drive to mine generous renewable energy subsidies and deliver on a bipartisan renewable energy target, companies were set loose without any overarching long-term plan needed to replace a vastly different electricity network based on continuous baseload generation, primarily from coal. Australia needs a comprehensive national energy plan and less hot air.

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Comment of the day

“Yes, well may they say ‘God Save The Queen’, for nothing will save Australia from our own folly.”

Brian, in response to Why Lib crisis is permanent.