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Hello readers. Business leaders call for urgent IR reform, and what does a Waleed Aly sighting at the ABC mean?

CEO of the Australian Industry Group Innes Willox delivers a speech with Executive Director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute Peter Jennings at the National Press Club in Canberra, Wednesday, April 5, 2017. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

IR reform ‘urgent’

Business chiefs are urging industrial relations reform to lift the “ailing” economy now the $158bn tax cuts package has passed.

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Governor-General of Australia Peter Cosgrove (R) talks to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during a ceremony to welcome home Australian members from the Rio olympic in Sydney on August 24, 2016. Australia set aside squabbles over under-performing athletes to welcome home the Rio games team as heroes. / AFP PHOTO / SAEED KHAN

Turnbull wrong on Cosgrove

Sir Peter Cosgrove did not say or agree that he would decline to swear in the challenger Peter Dutton if he won a partyroom ballot, writes Paul Kelly.

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07/07/2019: Four generations in one room. 92 year old Huguette Setton surrounded by her family. Daughter Talya Pasmanik 68 (right) & her husband Joe 72 (back), Grand Kids- Len Bennett 43, Davina Bennett 38, Philip Setton 31, Michelle 40, Katherine 36, & Great Grand kids Mali 7, Poppy 4 & Tara 2. Stuart McEvoy/The Australian.

Lifespans set to shrink

New forecasts on life expectancy have cast doubt on whether Australians will continue to live longer and healthier lives.

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Waleed Aly is seen talking to the media at the 2019 Logie Awards at The Star Casino on the Gold Coast, Sunday, June 30, 2019. (AAP Image/Darren England) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Aly at ABC?

Whispers of Waleed Aly sightings around the ABC HQ; anything to do with planned changes for Q&A? Nick Tabakoff has this and more in Media Diary. Chris Mitchell, meanwhile, takes aim at ABC journalists’ economic illiteracy.

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Johannes Leak’s view

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