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Antoinette Lattouf is no stranger to The Briefing. Long before she became the centre of one of Australia’s most closely watched media controversies, she was sitting in the host’s chair herself. Since then, the journalist, author and co-founder of ETTE Media has endured a very pub ...  Show more

Headlines: One Nation’s Barnaby Joyce backtracks over kicking permanent residents out of their homes ASIC is formally investigating KPMG Thermos King Food Jar recalled after causing vision loss in the US China’s about to put a 55% tariff on Aussie beef Prince Andrew appears with ...  Show more

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates to get inflation under control. One side effect is that taking out a mortgage to buy a home has gotten very expensive. That's especially a problem for some homeowners who managed to get a lower mortgage rate years ago. They have a sort of ...  Show more

Big interest rate rises since May 2022 have finally seen house prices begin to drop in our most populous cities. In the latest Corelogic data for October, Sydney home prices fell 0.1% in a month, while Melbourne was 0.2% down. It’s still a mixed picture across the country, with n ...  Show more

Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) Arm's CEO Rene Haas told Bloomberg that whoever wins the next election, further restrictions on skilled migration will hurt growth. (2) The Prime Minister is due to answer questions at t ...  Show more

US small business owners are experiencing their highest level of optimism in over 40 years, fuelled by expectations of tax cuts and deregulation under Donald Trump. US producer prices rose less than expected in December, providing some relief, although today's consumer price d ...