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.

Former prime minister Tony Abbott during Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, May 10, 2018. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

AGL ‘like a militant union’

Tony Abbott says AGL’s decision to turn down Alinta’s offer was a “strike against the national interest” as he accuses the energy giant of acting like a militant union. Stay abreast of all the developments from parliament in our live blog, PoliticsNow.

“The government should compulsorily acquire this power station for the price that Alinta were prepared to pay and then it should sell it to Alinta and they can operate it.”

Tony Abbott

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Telstra Unlimited ad. Source: Supplied

Telstra down again

Telstra users are suffering through yet another nationwide outage, with the telco’s mobile network knocked out for the second time in a month. The nationwide service disruption has affected customers on both the 3G and 4G networks, with customers left unable to make voice calls or use mobile data.

“We’re working to fix an issue impacting some mobile services. Sorry for the inconvenience.”

Telstra statement

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Peter Fitzsimons says the royal wedding showed how un-Australian the royal wedding was.

Bandana rampant

Peter FitzSimons says the wedding was a reminder of how un-Australian royalty is. But there is still enormous power in the grand old institutions that have served us well.

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Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) signage in Sydney, Saturday, May 5, 2018. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett) NO ARCHIVING

No ‘ulterior motives’

The banking royal commission has dismissed theories that CBA had “ulterior motives” in its treatment of Bankwest borrowers. Follow all the latest from the royal commission in our live blog.

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20/05/2018. Allyson Jennings co-runs the Facebook page "Looking for Lynette Dawson". She was born the year after Lyn went missing; her mum was Lyn's cousin. Photographed by the river at Parramatta Park. Britta Campion / The Australian

The Teacher’s Pet

A new generation of Lyn Dawson’s family is keeping her memory alive, 36 years after her suspected murder. Don’t miss the first enthralling episode of The Australian’s new podcast, The Teacher’s Pet, a series investigating the probable murder of Lyn Dawson. It’s a sordid story of strangely close twin brothers, teenage student lovers, and a wife who vanishes, uncovering startling new evidence.

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24/11/2016: Founder and Chairman of Chris Corrigan at the annual general meeting of Qube Holdings. The company has just pulled off a successful takeover/merger with Asciano to make it one of the biggest logistics companies in Australia. Hollie Adams/The Australian

The long read: In defence of capitalism

Maverick Chris Corrigan returns to Australia briefly to deliver comments sure to ruffle some feathers in the nation’s boardrooms and beyond. Janet Albrechtsen takes up the story.

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Comment of the day

“I thought , unexpectedly, the whole day was great. I started the day as a Republican and ended up a Royalist.”

Rhett, in response to ‘Royals ready to hit the brakes on Meghan’.