Your morning Briefing: Shorten’s plan to spend, tax big faces chop

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Hello readers. Labor’s high-taxing Shortenomics get short shrift under Jim Chalmers, and bizarre but entertaining win for the Aussies at the World Cup.

Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers is seen during a press conference in Brisbane, Tuesday, June 4, 2019. Mr Chalmers commented on the Reserve Bank's decision to lower the cash rate to 1.25% (AAP Image/Dan Peled) NO ARCHIVING

Big tax faces chop

Labor’s new Treasury spokesman, Jim Chalmers, has signalled a ­decisive break with the past five years of economic policy under Bill Shorten.

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Pollies, judges get wage rise

Federal politicians, judges and departmental secretaries will get another wage increase from July 1.

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The hands of Cardinal George Pell as he leaves the Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne, Thursday, June 6, 2019. Pell is appealing his conviction for sexually abusing two boys in the 1990s. (AAP Image/Erik Anderson) NO ARCHIVING

Judges cast doubt on evidence

Two of the three judges deciding George Pell’s fate have described parts of his victim’s account as ‘highly’ or ‘wildly improbable’. John Ferguson writes that Bret Walker may prove to be the best $20,000 a day George Pell has ever spent.

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TOPSHOT - Australia's Mitchell Starc celebrates after taking his fifth wicket, that of West Indies' Sheldon Cottrell during the 2019 Cricket World Cup group stage match between Australia and West Indies at Trent Bridge in Nottingham, central England, on June 6, 2019. - Australia beat West Indies by 15 runs. (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE

Coulter-Nile, Starc heroics save Aussies

Bizarre, but entertaining, the best way to describe Australia’s World Cup win over West Indies, writes Peter Lalor.

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Kudelka’s view

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