Politics and policy
The expected sale of Australian data centre operator AirTrunk to Blackstone for a substantial $20 billion is recognition of the company's potential as AI continues to boom.
Emails obtained by Capital Brief show that Anthony Albanese declined to meet Meta’s president of global affairs following the tech giant’s decision to drop deals with news publishers.
The government is not at war with the Reserve Bank. Not yet, anyway.
News publishers and the gambling industry are holding their breath ahead of two major government decisions on media policy.
The nation's economic scorecard will be the most anticipated data of the week, with economists thinking we're in the worst spot since the early-1990s.
Voters will judge Anthony Albanese and Kamala Harris within nine months. They’re both clinging to the centre ground as politics around them fractures.
Anthony Albanese backflipped this morning on the decision to exclude gender and sexuality questions from the census — a story which had already reignited scrutiny of his political instincts ahead of the election.
The government is set for complex negotiations over its electoral reform package. Some crossbenchers want to see a ban on deepfake ads on the table.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers is upbeat about the latest inflation figures. But economists are less confident, warning that volatile data and temporary factors have led us astray before.
In a National Press Club address on Wednesday, Adam Bandt made it clear that the Greens will negotiate hard in the event of a hung parliament.
Crossbench senator David Pocock and the peak motoring group are urging the government to mandate state car crash data sharing in a new road funding deal.
The Federal government has quietly struck a new deal with the states for road and rail projects worth tens of billions of dollars, but failed to secure an equal split in funding.
Jim Chalmers is acting as the government's attack dog against Peter Dutton. Whether the strategy will pay off is an open question.
Cybersecurity is an increasingly important priority for corporate Australia. So it was surprising that today's announcement of our new top cyber spy came with little fanfare.
Local data flow will be scrutinised closely in the wake of US Fed chair's Jerome Powell's all but confirmation of rate cuts next month. It's also another heavy week for ASX earnings.
