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.

Senator Katy Gallagher in Senate Question Time, in the Senate Chamber at Parliament House, Canberra. pic by Kym Smith.

What Katy did next

Former Labor senator Katy Gallagher will att empt to win back her ACT seat after being disqualified from parliament over dual citizenship. Ms Gallagher, who last month was found by the High Court to have been ineligible to sit, has emailed Labor members to flag her intention to nominate for preselection.

“Back in 2014 I left my role as ACT chief minister to seek preselection for the federal Labor Party because I felt that I could make a positive contribution to Labor’s mission, to help elect a Shorten Labor government and most importantly be in a position to represent the interests of my home town in the national parliament.

“These reasons remain as relevant for me today as they did back then and so I have decided to put my hand up for preselection for the Senate in the next federal campaign.”

Katy Gallagher

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***MUST CREDIT TNV*****A five-year-old was serious injured during a domestic dispute in Sydney’s north west this morning.The dispute has occurred at a Carlingford address around 7am (Friday 8 June 2018).A five-year-old boy was left with serious stab wounds.The child and his grandmother left the scene and went to nearby Mosley Street to raise the alarmThe child is under police escort to Children’s Hospital at WestmeadA male, who is known to the child, is in custody.Inquiries are continuing.

Boy, 5, dies after stabbing

A five-year-old boy has died after being stabbed at a Sydney home, despite his grandmother’s heroic efforts to save him.

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07/06/2018: Jewish students Janine Joseph, Ben Ezzes and Dana Segal at Sydney University. They are protesting a Sydney Uni publication which ran a picture of an anti-Israeli suicide bomber on their front cover.Pic by James Croucher

Uni paper ‘distressing’

A female suicide bomber who killed dozens of Israeli soldiers has graced the front cover of a University of Sydney student newspaper, and Jewish students who complained about the cover have been “condemned” for ­censorship.

Hamida al-Taher killed more than 50 people, mainly Israeli military personnel, when she blew herself up in Southern Lebanon in 1985. The special edition of the University of Sydney’s student newspaper Honi Soit, produced by the student women’s collective a fortnight ago, put her on the cover and called her a “martyr” in an issue dedicated to the struggle against “Israeli colonisation”.

“They are particularly disturbing to Jewish students as they display a blatant disdain for Israeli victims of violence.”

Noa Bloch, Australian Union of Jewish Student national political ­director

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Pic of Australian Public Service Commissioner John Lloyd who is being profiled in Inquirer in Friday's paper. Go to main security desk and ask for Emma. Details above Picture Gary Ramage

The long read: Exit of unions’ enemy No 1

Outgoing Australian Public Service Commissioner John Lloyd reflects on his long career as an IR policymaker.

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Comment of the day

“Professor Moses, who says (Greg) Sheridan is in some way similar to a mass muderer, works for an university that puts a mass murderer on the cover of its student paper.”

David, in response to ‘Jewish distress at student paper’.