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Thursday Headlines: Warnings over CCTV in childcare to combat abuse, Europe’s top court rules Russia downed MH17, Elon Musk's AI company working to remove posts after chatbot praises Hitler, a surging number of young Australians are pushing life insurers into a $2.2bn crisis and Queensland takes out Origin 2025! 

Deep Dive: Antoinette Lattouf on her win against the ABC
The Weekend Briefing’s host Antoinette Lattouf has been covering stories as a journalist for 20 years – but she became the top story herself when she took on the ABC for unfair dismissal over a social media post 18 months ago. 

In this episode of The Briefing, Antoinette opens up to Helen Smith about what it was like at the centre of a scandal, her response to accusations of bias and why she is determined to keep speaking out about human rights atrocities in Gaza. 

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