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.

Deputy Leader of the Opposition Tanya Plibersek speaks during a press conference in Sydney, Sunday, April 29, 2018. Labor says it has come up with a new source of GST revenue that would allow the states to agree to cut the 10 per cent tax on female sanitary products.(AAP Image/Daniel Munoz) NO ARCHIVING

Tax system ‘anti-women’

Tanya Plibersek says Australia’s tax system discriminates against women, citing the GST on tampons and the gender pay gap.

“We’ve got a government that had members last week that there should be a cut to the GST on superyachts, but they refuse to back a cut to the GST on tampons. We’ve got a government that says tampons should attract the GST but Viagra should not.”

Tanya Plibersek

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(FILES) This file photo taken on December 12, 2013 shows the headquarters of JP Morgan Chase on Park Avenue in New York. Banking giant JP Morgan Chase has agreed to pay more than $264 million to resolve allegations it bribed officials in China by giving prized jobs and internships to friends and relatives, officials announced November 17, 2016."Awarding prestigious employment opportunities to unqualified individuals in order to influence government officials is corruption, plain and simple," Leslie Caldwell, chief of the US Justice Department's criminal division, said in a statement. / AFP PHOTO / Stan HONDA

Bankers eye cartel case

Ticky Fullerton and Leo Shanahan reveal how investment bankers everywhere are poring over every word in every column on the ACCC’s cartel case. Criminal charges against ANZ and two of the three underwriters to the $2.5 billion placement in 2015, Citigroup and Deutsche — including their former CEOs Stephen Roberts and Michael Ormaechea — have shirt-fronted the normally private world of banking.

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Zaky Mallah a one-time terror suspect, appearing on Ch 10 show The Project. Being interviewed by Waleed Aly & Fifi Box. Pictures CH 10

‘He’s a joke’

Peter Dutton says he hates talking about “attention seekers’’ like Zaky Mallah, who was deemed a threat to the Trump-Kim summit.

“He’s this ‘zealot’ and he’s ‘so principled’ yet he runs around in Nike gear, he’s got trendy western gear on, so he’s a joke this guy ... he’ll be on a plane I suspect, back to Australia very soon. Singapore won’t cop idiots like that.”

Peter Dutton

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Emirates are testing virtual windows on planes.

Sitting in a tin can

Emirates is testing “virtual windows” that beam images onto the inside of the cabin using outside cameras, to make planes more efficient.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 06: Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland poses during a Cricket Australia announcement at the Victorian Cricket and Community Centre on June 6, 2018 in Melbourne, Australia. After a 17-year tenure, James Sutherland has resigned as Chief Executive Officer of Cricket Australia. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images)

The long read: Chief’s solid innings

Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland leaves the sport on firmer footing despite the recent woes besetting the game, not least “tampergate”. Chip Le Grand looks back at James Sutherland’s time at the helm.

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Comment of the day

“I was disgusted with the refereeing. It was shocking, as it often is. There won’t be much commentary about it though as that denigrates the game, we are told.”

Richard, in response to ‘Blues win a real steal’.