International Reading:

• Trump to Dismantle FEMA After 2025: Let the States Handle It – Atlas News
• French drivers sue Tesla claiming Musk turned cars into ‘extreme-Right’ symbol: Tesla owners in France have filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk – IBC
• Canadian Boycott Of U.S. Travel Is Going Stronger Than Ever, New Data Says – Forbes
• “We’ve Been Sold a Story That Isn’t Remotely True”: How Private-Equity Billionaires Killed the American Dream – Vanity Fair
• “Why do rich Americans need more tax cuts?” This chart blows up logic behind Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill – Investors Observer.
• World Bank predicts worst decade for global growth since 1960s as the effect of Donald Trump’s tariffs are felt – BBC
• ‘There is no Plan B’: Republicans make a daring bet on the debt limit – NBC News
• Trade tensions aren’t stopping Chinese companies from pushing into the U.S. – CNBC
• U.S. inflation report shows 2.4% increase in consumer prices – Fast Company
• Why Trump Is Losing His Trade War – The Atlantic

Local reading:

• Wealthy Australians are worried we might realise how rigged the system is in their favour – The Guardian
• Federal watchdog finds ‘no corruption’ in $2.4m settlement to Brittany Higgins following alleged rape – The Guardian
• CHOICE tested the SPF claims of 20 sunscreens. 16 failed to meet their advertised claims – Choice
• New immunisation plan to tackle drop in childhood vaccination rates – ABC
• Australia’s housing crisis has been laid bare – and there’s one major factor to blame – The SMH
• Griffith University underpaid staff by $8.3 million, Fair Work Ombudsman finds – ABC
• Australian artists making waves globally but local listening at ‘historic low’ – The Guardian
• Australian Tesla owners seeking compensation as phantom braking leaves drivers ‘completely terrified’ – ABC
• Australia: Electricity prices to rise by up to 10 percent – WSWS
• Steve Smith breaks 100-year-old record as Aussies control WTC final – News.com.au
• Tobacco excise isn’t making Australians smoke less and should be frozen to curb black market, economists say –The Economist
• Retail card spending still in the doldrums – Interest.co.nz
• Auckland Rating Valuations available now – average 9% decline since previous valuation – Interest.co.nz

MB Media Appearances:

“Is the Great Divide coming?” Mark Bouris & Leith van Onselen

Unpacking Australia’s housing and energy disaster – Martin North and Leith van Onselen

Australians suffer policy whiplash

Melbourne implodes amid population deluge

Australians face a lost decade of ‘managed decline’