A grumpy week in politics, and the last leap second
· 37 min
Episode A grumpy week in politics, and the last leap second
This is the week in news and what’s coming up with Claire Kimball and Kate Watson.
It’s been a week of policy battles in parliament - the ATO delaying the credit card ban, changes to family trusts that have small business cranky, and Josh Frydenberg promoting his new memoir and making pointed comments about Liberal leadership.
Then to the US. Donald Trump has a new press secretary whose first appearance went viral, and the planned livestream of an execution has been cancelled, but raised hard questions about what our government could have done to stop it being shown here.
And the Trump–Zelensky relationship has taken another hit, this time over diesel. We’ll explain how a deal to import Russian fuel connects to petrol prices, the midterms, and Ukraine losing satellite access mid-war.
Plus the leap second has been abolished. (And for the timekeeping pedants listening, we see you: leap seconds have always added a second, not removed one. The vote ending them means we avoid the first ever negative leap second, so technically we've dodged losing one.)
Links
Uber x Red Cross Clothing Drive
Kate’s recommendation: Politico’s Canberra Playbook Newsletter and Podcast
Claire’s recommendation: Chicken meatball risoni recipe
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