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.

GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 10: Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Turnbull applauds the Australian Men's 4 x 100m Medley Relay Final team winning gold on day six of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games at Optus Aquatic Centre on April 10, 2018 on the Gold Coast, Australia. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)

PM defends migrant story attack

Malcolm Turnbull has attempted to defend his attack on The Australian’s revelation Peter Dutton canvassed lowering the immigration intake by incorrectly saying the story claimed the discussion took place in cabinet. Meanwhile, the PM’s political message has been obscured yet again by his inability to quote John Farnham’s You’re the Voice.

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SUNDAY TELEGRAPH - 27/10/17Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest pictured in Sydney today after pledging $10m for brain cancer research.

‘Stop the anti-China rhetoric’

Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest has called on Australian politicians to stop anti-Chinese rhetoric, warning it will impact future business talks between the two countries. Mr Forrest, who met with Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday, told The Australian that whether it was from Greens, Labor or Liberals, edging out the small “paranoid” voter with anti-China rhetoric was incredibly costly to everyone living in Australia.

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Yassmin Abdel-Magied a show about Australia's hijab fashion scene. The show, to be aired on ABC iView on May 1, had its trailer released yesterday showing Abdel-Magied in a variety of Islamic headwear. Twitter

Yassmin kicked out of US

Muslim activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied has been refused entry to the United States by immigration officials this morning and put back on a plane.

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GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 12: Antri Christoforou of Cyprus competes during the Women's Cross-country on day eight of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games at Nerang Mountain Bike Trails on April 12, 2018 on the Gold Coast, Australia. (Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images)

Mountain claims early victims

Two mountain bike riders have already had their medal hopes dashed after heavy crashes on the Commonwealth Games cross country course. Keep up with all the action from the Gold Coast in our live blog.

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On the Western Front: Luke Sciberras’s Fireflies, Bullecourt.

Long read: The great war reimagined

The experience of war is not easy to talk about without falling into sentimentality, banality or disingenuousness. Like the experience of death, to which it is so closely related, it is the encounter with a kind of absolute beyond words.

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Comment of the day

“Maybe there’s a simpler explanation for Corbyn’s anti-Jewishness (or ant-Zionism, if that’s his basic antipathy), which is simply that being anti-Israel and pro-Palestinians is internationally the current hard-left line, and the most fundamental imperative of hard-leftism is that all apparatchiks must always be in lock-step, goose-step with the current hard-left agenda. ”

Colin, in response to Revolt over Corbyn extremism.