Your afternoon Briefing: Labor tax hike would drag on growth

Good afternoon, readers. Here’s your digest of today’s top stories.

Good afternoon, readers. Here’s your digest of today’s top stories.

Labor leader Bill Shorten (R) and Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen (L) hold a press conference in Melbourne, Friday, October 12, 2018. Labor are revealing today the ALP will back the Government's plan to fast-track tax cuts to small businesses. (AAP Image/David Crosling) NO ARCHIVING,

Labor tax hike would drag on growth

Labor’s proposed $34 billion tax hike over the next two years would drag down economic growth, sap consumer spending and see the Australian dollar tumble below US65c, two economic experts have claimed.

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Detectives investigating a life-threatening fall from a Surry Hills balcony last weekend, are seeking a potential witness they believe may have met the victim earlier that day via a dating app.Just before 4pm on Sunday 4 November 2018, police from the Surry Hills Police Area Command were called to a unit block in Brisbane Street where a man had fallen three floors from a balcony onto a ground-floor patio, impaling himself on a table leg.Surry Hills detectives believe the 37-year-old man had earlier met up with another man in the unit via a dating app.They are appealing for that man to contact police as they believe he may have information crucial to their inquiries.

Man impaled after Grindr meet

NSW police are searching for a man who fled a Surry Hills apartment on Sunday after the 37-year-old man he had met on a dating app jumped off the third storey balcony, impaling his leg on a table.

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Prime Minister Scott Morrison pays his respects at Pellegrini's Espresso Bar in Melbourne after co-owner Sisto Malapina was killed in a terrorist attack. Picture: Jake Nowakowski

Muslims must stop ‘wolves among sheep’

Scott Morrison has used the reopening of Pellegrini’s espresso bar to dismiss an Islamic leader’s claim he is scapegoating Muslims.

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Hillary Clinton is the last person the Democrats need to run against Donald Trump.

Why she’s dreaming

Hillary Clinton is the last person the Democrats should turn to in the 2020 presidential race, writes Cameron Stewart. The bottom line is she remains an unpopular and polarising figure.