Your morning Briefing: Treasurer’s $2bn intervention into SME lending market

Good morning, readers. Josh Frydenberg makes a $2bn pitch for small business votes and how #MeToo is a shoddy conduit for political causes.

Good morning, readers. Josh Frydenberg makes a $2 billion pitch for small business votes and the latest outpouring of #MeToo miasma.

Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg speaks at a doorstop during a visit to Riverside Girls High School in Sydney, Tuesday, November 13, 2018. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett) NO ARCHIVING

Treasurer’s $2bn pitch to small business

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg will launch a $2 billion government-backed intervention into the $300 billion small and medium-sized business lending market.

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#MeToo’s collateral damage

The early corruption of #MeToo encouraged a political free-for-all with women caught in the crossfire, writes Janet Albrechtsen.

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Sheik Mohammed Omran with two of his sons Ayman (13yrs), and Usama (8yrs) on 6 September 2003. SUNDAY AGE NEWS Picture by CRAIG SILLITOE

Silence on son’s death slammed

Australia’s most senior Salafist cleric has spoken for the first time about how his son was killed in Syria.

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FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2018 file photo, President Donald Trump watches as a White House aide reaches to take away a microphone from CNN journalist Jim Acosta during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington. CNN is suing the Trump administration, demanding that Acosta’s press credentials to cover the White House be returned. The administration revoked them last week following President Trump’s contentious news conference, where Acosta refused to give up a microphone when the president said he didn’t want to hear anything more from him. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

CNN sues Trump over ban

News channel CNN has taken legal action against President Trump after their reporter was banned from the White House after a fiery press conference.

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TOPSHOT - (FromL) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Morocco's Prince Moulay Hassan, Moroccan King Mohammed VI, US First Lady Melania Trump, US President Donald Trump, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Australian Governor-General Peter Cosgrove attend a ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on November 11, 2018 as part of commemorations marking the 100th anniversary of the 11 November 1918 armistice, ending World War I. (Photo by ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP)

Merkel wants EU army

Angela Merkel has joined France’s call for the creation of a European army as Donald Trump unleashes on Emanuel Macron.