Your morning Briefing: Morrison tax assault on ‘Labor arrogance’

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Hello readers. The PM blasts Labor’s threats to block the Coalition’s tax cuts, and Donald Trump does some DMZ diplomacy.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks to the media during a press conference at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, Saturday, June 29, 2019. The leaders of the world's largest economies arrived in Osaka on Thursday for the fourteenth meeting of Group of Twenty (G20). (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

‘Labor arrogance’

Scott Morrison has labelled Labor’s threats to block the governmen­t’s income tax cuts as an act of “belligerent arrogance”.

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ScoMo went solo

Liberal private polling showed Scott Morrison was headed for a wipe-out just a few months before the election.

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PANMUNJOM, SOUTH KOREA - JUNE 30: (SOUTH KOREA OUT): A handout photo provided by Dong-A Ilbo of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump inside the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the South and North Korea on June 30, 2019 in Panmunjom, South Korea. U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un briefly met at the Korean demilitarized zone (DMZ) on Sunday, with an intention to revitalize stalled nuclear talks and demonstrate the friendship between both countries. The encounter was the third time Trump and Kim have gotten together in person as both leaders have said they are committed to the "complete denuclearization" of the Korean peninsula. (Photo by Handout/Dong-A Ilbo via Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***

DMZ diplomacy

Donald Trump’s love of reality theatre led him into another ­bizarre meeting with Kim Jong-un, the extravagantly Stalinist dictator of North Korea, writes Greg Sheridan.

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New twist in the Israel Folau case.

Folau’s new front

Rugby Australia may have inadvertently opened another legal avenue for Israel Folau to pursue. Janet Albrechtsen writes that Alan Joyce can’t be happy with the case’s latest twist.

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The Conversation with Julie Bishop. Supplied

Bishop’s TV pitch

Julie Bishop, never one to knock back a red carpet opportunity, is pitching a glamorous new gig to television executives, writes Nick Tabakoff in Media Diary.

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Johannes Leak’s view

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