The Daily Breakdown

A Conservative MP's defection to the Liberal Democrats puts Brexit and Johnson's leadership in doubt, a corporate leader backs the climate strike and why I believe Trump wanted to nuke hurricanes

Alan Jones's editorial about the Biloela 4 hits the right notes for the left but avoids every inconvenient fact, the ALP uses ScoMo's faith as a club and free speech takes another hit in the UK

Priya, her husband Nadesalingam and their Australian-born children Kopika, 4, and Tharunicaa, 2, are not refugees. And Australia's asylum seeker and refugee policy should not be rewritten because they've got cute children.

Former Labor Senator Sam Dastyari reckons old mate Huang Xiangmo may be a Chinese Government "agent of influence". You think, Sam? What gave it away? But there's a lot more to come out of ICAC. And Greta Thunberg has arrived safe and sound and super serious in New York. Yay! Let the hectoring begin ...

Mummy and daddy were fighting and Scott Morrison picked his favourite parent. It only took a second, but when ScoMo declared China was a 'developed country', he put Australia firmly in Trump's camp to rewrite the global trade rule book.

Electric vehicles are inevitable. So is death. Sometimes delay the inevitable is a good thing. The real problem with John Setka and how ICAC exposes political finance flaws.

Today on the Breakdown: we're forced to pay into super and it's meant to be for our retirement, so why is it now the plaything of green wokers? Medevac is gamed just as we predicted, and the worst case of Trump Derangement Syndrome has been caught on tape!

There's a lot Trump doesn't understand. Fidelity, for example. But someone needs to explain to him the basics of trade. Maybe ScoMo could give him a crash course at the G7. And we breakdown Rudd's despicable comments at the National Press Club about Andrew Hastie, and pill testing for kids in the ACT.

Tim Fischer's passing highlights the toxic heart of politics, Victorian prepare for a long, hot, dark summer and the woke get a seat at the boardroom.

Today we examine the response to yesterday's Pell decision and some of the myths around clergy abuse of minors.