Radio National Breakfast

Slightly higher than expected inflation in January has kept pressure on the Reserve Bank to inflict another interest rate hike and increased scrutiny of the federal government's economic management.
GUEST: Jim Chalmers, Treasurer
PRODUCER: Isadora Bogle

The federal opposition has launched fresh attacks on the government over its spending - with the latest inflation figures coming in higher than expected.
January figures show prices rose zero-point-four per cent in the month and three-point-eight per cent annually.
GUEST: Tim Wilson, Shadow Treasurer
PRODUCER: Isadora Bogle

A group of international aid organisations have petitioned Israel's Supreme Court to allow them to keep working in the Gaza.
Israel is set to ban 37 aid groups from working in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem from the first of March - if they don't comply with new rules.
Guest: Bushra Khalidi, Oxfam’s policy lead in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Producer: Pip Cook

Debate is intensifying in Tasmania over the use of antibiotics in the salmon industry.
Salmon farmers could be banned from using the antibiotic florfenicol as early as next week; after the drug was detected in abalone and lobsters more than 10 kilometres from the nearest salmon pens.
Authorities have proposed suspending emergency permits -- which allowed companies to use the antibiotic.
The industry has been using the drug to combat a bacterial disease which led to a mass mortality event last year.
GUEST: Peter George, Tasmanian independent member for state seat of Franklin 
PRODUCER: Eddy Diamond

It was the longest State of the Union address in history, where the US President Donald Trump was combative with his Democratic opponents, especially when defending his immigration crackdown. 
The President also looked to tout his economic record, but leading economist Justin Wolfers isn't convinced that all the claims stack up.
GUEST: Justin Wolfers, Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan