Your morning Briefing: Cities fix — send migrants to regions
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Hello readers. Here is your 2-minute digest of what’s making news today.
Send migrants to regions
The Morrison government is due to consider a plan that would require some new immigrants to settle for up to five years outside Sydney or Melbourne, as part of a yet-to-be-released landmark population policy to ease congestion in the two largest capital cities.
The Australian understands a decision on a time period for mandatory regional settlement — as part of a new migration program — had been due to go to the Turnbull cabinet last week. It has yet to be put to the new cabinet under Scott Morrison.
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Special envoy Abbott
Tony Abbott has accepted Scott Morrison’s job offer as a special envoy on indigenous affairs.
Mr Abbott’s priority will be to lift school attendance rates and improve academic performance. The former prime minister said he would encourage the federal government to consider tougher penalties for indigenous parents who did not send their children to school, along with ways to attract talented teachers to remote Aboriginal communities.
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Trojan horse at ASX gate
A very successful businessman is rebuffing efforts by bankers who are keen for him to list on the Australian Securities Exchange. “I would rather join the Green Alliance,” he told me. It’s an apt observation, writes Janet Albrechtsen, on the trojan horse at the gates of the ASX.
“Draft rules recently released by the ASX corporate governance council read as if they were written by Sarah Hanson-Young, Sally McManus and Gillian Triggs after a night on the drink, with input from US Democrat Elizabeth Warren.”
Janet Albrechtsen
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What really happened
Chris Kenny lifts the lid on the truth behind the Liberals’ leadership change. Malcolm Turnbull’s critics were trying to warn him against straying from the conservative path, Kenny writes. The former PM’s clueless media boosters at the ABC and elsewhere just didn’t see it.
“Turnbull’s media boosters at the ABC and elsewhere either didn’t see the looming problem or underestimated it because they supported the policy — wishful thinking. My columns were not informed by any plotting but, rather, assessments of policy and political trajectories.”
Chris Kenny
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Reality check
A central pitch of Bill Shorten’s election campaign has been dismantled by a new Productivity Commission report that finds income inequality is not soaring and economic gains have been “shared widely” across all income groups, writes Adam Creighton.
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Flushed Meadow
A heat wave has thrown the US Open into chaos, as Nick Kyrgios and Alex de Minaur get set for matches later this morning. Novak Djokovic, whose championship hopes looked in peril when he trailed Marton Fucsovics 4-2 in the third set, said the break at the end of the third set as part of the extreme heat policy enacted at the US Open today was beneficial. Follow all the action in our live US Open blog.
“It was quite a wonderful feeling … battling with a guy for two-and-a-half hours and then you are naked in the ice baths.”
Novak Djokovic
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Kudelka’s view
China’s great wall of silence
China deliberately concealed information about the coronavirus, and now it is fighting an inquiry. So what is Beijing hiding?
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Your 2-minute digest of the day’s top stories.