Australia TODAY analyses the key stories featuring in the mainstream newspapers on 7 June 2019.
The Australian
Labor's new Treasury spokesman, Jim Chalmers, has signalled a decisive break
with the past five years of economic policy under Bill Shorten, identifying the
need to develop greater controls on spending and wind back high-taxing measures
ahead of the next election.
Scott Morrison is under fire from former Coalition minister Concetta
Fierravanti-Wells, who claims the Prime Minister and his "cabinet of
groupthinkers" were "outmanoeuvred by Beijing" over the visit of three Chinese
warships to Sydney Harbour.
The Australia Federal Police chief has warned that journalists and MPs are not
immune from criminal prosecutions, leaving open the possibility of jail terms
for those found to have broken the law.
SMH
Top media executive and lawyer Bruce McWilliam has made a stunning attack on national security laws and the federal police, accusing successive governments of giving themselves "unlimited and dangerously wide power".
Glenn Redmayne has lived around Tempe Station for about 15 years – it has only been for the past couple of months that he has had access to the rail network.
But that access will soon be taken away when Sydney Trains closes a ramp that it opened, temporarily, to replace a steep external set of stairs closed for refurbishment.
Herald Sun
Laws that could allow the Australian Federal Police to charge journalists were
last night condemned as a "danger to our democracy". Following successive raids
on News Corp and the ABC, Acting AFP commissioner Neil Gaughan yesterday said he
would not rule in or rule out anyone being "subject to further charges".
The Financial Review
The federal government is prepared to expand its economic policy agenda beyond
the measures it took to the election to boost Australia's lagging productivity
performance, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says.
With men expected to again dominate Monday's Queen's Birthday Honours,
Australia's corporate bosses have been told to lift their game in recognising
the contribution of women. Since the Order of Australia was established in 1975,
men have received about 70 per cent of all national honours, and easily
outperformed women even in female-dominated industries.
Property prices will start rising "modestly" next year after a downturn made
housing in Sydney and Melbourne the most affordable in years, an ANZ/ CoreLogic
report shows.
