Your afternoon Briefing

Good afternoon, readers. A suspected North Korean cyberattack targeted Australia and the growing problem with rooftop solar panels.

Good afternoon, readers. A suspected North Korean cyberattack targeted Australia and rooftop solar panels are causing energy demand problems.

In this April 13, 2017 file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, and Choe Ryong Hae, vice-chairman of the central committee of the Workers' Party, arrive for the official opening of the Ryomyong residential area, in Pyongyang, North Korea. While North Korea declared this past weekend it would stop nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile tests and shut down its nuclear test site, it did not indicate it will give up its nuclear arsenal or halt its production of missiles. Moon and later President Donald Trump are still likely to find it very difficult to persuade Kim to dismantle his entire arsenal, which includes purported thermonuclear weapons and developmental ICBMs.(AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

NK ‘GhostSecret’ eyed Australia

A suspected North Korean cyberattack on Turkish banks last month has been exposed as a global data-theft campaign targeting nations including Australia.

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FW: Rooftop solar panels by Natural Technology Systems for July 20 Home mag

Solar panels ‘a big disrupter’

The rising use of rooftop solar panels has created problems for the management of energy demand in Australia, says Australian Energy Market Operator, Audrey Zibelman.

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*Fairfax Pool Images* The Royal Commission into the Financial Services Industry. 12 February 2018. The Age News. Photo: Eddie Jim. ( The Commissioner Kenneth Hayne )

Inquiry extension good for PM?

Allowing the drama-packed bank inquiry more time could mean Ken Hayne’s final report emerges after the next election, not before it, writes Richard Gluyas.

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Pope Francis (L) leaves after leading the episcopal ordination mass in St. Peter’s basilica at the Vatican on April 22, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / VINCENZO PINTO

Pope crackdown sparks backlash

Pope Francis’s personal intervention to dissolve a small but flourishing community of priests in Belgium has deep divisions seething below the surface of the Church.

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Veterans take part in the Anzac Day march in Sydney, Wednesday, April 25, 2018. Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance to commemorate the service and sacrifice of Australian service men and women. (AAP Image/Paul Braven) NO ARCHIVING

Ranks thinner, banners higher

Tens of thousands of Australians attended Anzac Day services across the nation, almost 100 years on from the end of WWI.