Your noon Briefing

Welcome to your noon roundup of how the day has played out so far and what to watch for.

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

9/2/18: Emma Alberici at the ABC Annual Public meeting at Ultimo, Sydney. John Feder/The Australian.

Alberici tax story’s nine errors

Emma Alberici’s news story on corporate tax rates contained nine errors of fact and omissions, the ABC said today. And the analysis story was removed for nearly a week because the ABC could not determine how long it would take to rewrite, the corporation has told a Senate Estimates communications committee.

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Prime Minister Julia Gillard meets with former PM Kevin Rudd to discuss the campaign strategy at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices in Brisbane, while campaigning for upcoming 2010 federal election.

Gillard ‘looking for an escape’

Kevin Rudd has labelled Julia Gillard’s 2010 election campaign as the “worst-run in Labor history” as he rejected claims he was a reason for the collapse in Labor’s support in 2011. The former prime minister attacked Ms Gillard just a day after he lashed Bill Shorten for being part of the coup that removed him as leader.

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Facebook fake black lives matter

Union official’s ‘Facebook scam’

An Australian National Union of Workers employee is allegedly behind a scam ‘Black Lives Matter’ Facebook page, which has pulled in over $100,000 from online fundraisers meant for Black Lives Matter Causes in the US.

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Posts from Melissa Lowther's Instagram account after she learned she would not be competing in today's time trial because England had failed to enter her.

English fail to enter rider

English road cyclist Melissa Lowther says she is gutted and lost for words after the team failed to lodge her entry in time to race in today’s Commonwealth Games time trial. Keep up with all the action in our live Commonwealth Games blog.

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TOPSHOT - AUGUSTA, GA - APRIL 08: Patrick Reed of the United States is presented with the green jacket by Sergio Garcia of Spain during the green jacket ceremony after winning the 2018 Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club on April 8, 2018 in Augusta, Georgia. David Cannon/Getty Images/AFP / AFP PHOTO / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / DAVID CANNON

Long read: Family feud behind Reed win

It should be the most natural thing in the world for parents to weep when they see their children do great things. But when Jeannette Reed shed her tears on Sunday evening after watching her son Patrick win the Masters, they flowed not with joy but out of sorrow for the son that she had lost.

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Comment of the day

“But the big question for each of us individually, and our society collectively, is: What levels of “consequences” are appropriate when individuals express an opinion? What sort of consequence?”

AnthonyR, in response to The right to speak freely.