International Reading:
- Elon Musk, Amazon, and AT&T are demanding a return to office. But there aren’t enough desks – Fortune
- What debt ceiling? “Spend, Spend, Spend goes the Trumpie – CBS News
- Government Shutdown Grows Closer as Trump Tells G.O.P. to Kill Spending Deal – NY Times
- Obscene Prices, Declining Quality: Luxury Is in a Death Spiral – NY Times
- Defense bill clears Congress – with ban on gender care for minors buried inside it – Independent
- BRICS Don’t Threaten the Dollar, the US Does – Bloomberg
- Workers launch largest strike against Amazon in US history – People’s Dispatch
- US funding plan collapses as Trump makes demands days before shutdown – The Guardian
- Ontario’s premier says Trump’s tariffs would be a disaster for US markets – AP News
- Tesla sales crash as drivers snub Trump supporter Elon Musk – Yahoo
- Trump has promised to boost oil and gas exports. It could raise energy prices at home – NPR
- Seeing low-income consumers squeezed, retailers target $10 and under gifts – Reuters
- Jeff Bezos saved around $1 billion in taxes by moving to a ‘billionaire bunker’ in Florida – Fortune
Local Reading:
- People warned not to swim at Hobart beaches after wastewater plant knocked out by Cadbury factory – ABC
- Tanya Plibersek says no new coal mine approvals this year after approving extensions – ABC
- The lucrative scam business behind a non-existent Centrelink payment – ABC
- Sydney train delays expected and transport alternatives for New Year’s Eve assessed amid union’s industrial action – ABC
- ACCC accuses Optus store of pushing customers into $150k debts – ABC
- AGL apologises for overcharging welfare recipients but says it may appeal $25m fine – ABC
- ‘Tradie stabbed in gang attack at Werribee station in Melbourne’ – News.com.au
- More Australians moving to inland country towns in search of affordable housing – ABC
- Union fears for Port Kembla’s future after WA wins Australia-first green iron plant – ABC
- Aldi liable for ‘flagrant’ copyright breach of rival brand’s packaging, federal court finds – The Guardian
- Retail to catch a break? – Interest.co.nz
- Where to from here for savers? – Interest.co.nz
- ‘Thank goodness’ – ANZ survey shows signs of recovering economic demand – Interest.co.nz
- GDP-ocalypse: NZ economy shrinks 2% in six months – Interest.co.nz
- NZ facing oversupply of rental properties – Interest.co.nz
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Media Appearances:
Australia is becoming a failed state
Brace for a decade of deficits
Jim Chalmers spins budget fairytales
Record government spending is preventing rate cuts
Budget bubble, toil and trouble
