The Briefing

Headlines:
One Nation’s Barnaby Joyce backtracks over kicking permanent residents out of their homes
ASIC is formally investigating KPMG
Thermos King Food Jar recalled after causing vision loss in the US
China’s about to put a 55% tariff on Aussie beef
Prince Andrew appears with a massive face bruise
Deep Dive:
Aussies love to talk about property prices, and the focus this week has been on new data showing declines in some house prices. But how significant are the downturns in Sydney and Melbourne, and what kind of properties are still hitting record highs?
In this episode of The Briefing Natarsha Belling is joined by My Bui, economist at AMP, to talk about whether Australia is actually in a property correction, and what it could mean for your finances.
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Friday Headlines:
Labor facing uphill battle to get CGT and NDIS legislation passed
Government calls for investigation into sexual assault allegations of Australian flotilla members
Hezbollah rejects latest ceasefire
Bondi hero charged with assault
Content creator fired over viral Indigenous skit
Deep Dive: A robot recently beat the human half-marathon world record by seven minutes, another walked the Met Gala red carpet, while one major world religion is ordaining them as monks.
Humanoid robots are turning up in spaces we once thought were exclusively ours - and that's not an accident. It's the latest move in a multibillion-dollar effort to make machines feel familiar, relatable and, ultimately, welcome.
In this episode of The Briefing, Chris Spyrou traces the 60-year playbook behind our relationship with machines - from a 1960s MIT chatbot to a breathing AI in your pocket – to explain how we arrived at a moment where robots are beginning to move from our screens and showrooms into our streets.

Further listening from headlines:
'I heard the screams': Inside Israeli detention
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Headlines:
Trump rebuked by Congress over war powers, as Iran and Lebanon agree to new ceasefire
Elderly man was stabbed before shooting home invader in rural NSW
Melbourne Neo-Nazis convicted over ANZAC Day boos, as High Court dismisses hate group challenge
Mary the Tassie Devil is still on the loose
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Thursday Headlines:
One Nation support surges among women, inner-city livers and the wealthy
Netanyahu brushes off tensions as Trump confirms fiery phone call
Australia among countries facing new US tariffs
80% of cigs and vapes smoked in Australia last year were illegal
Lisa Jane Spencer faces backlash for skit mocking Aboriginal Australians
NSW to allow medicinal cannabis users to drive
Deep Dive: We already know that our increasing appetite for all things AI has the potential to harm the planet and our hip pockets, with energy-hungry data centres needed to power the demand.
A new report by the Climate Council has highlighted this fact, with fears of a 25% increase in electricity prices by 2035 and 3x growth in water consumption and energy needs in less than four years if things keep going unchecked.
But there are ways for data centres to be green, with the Climate Council’s CEO Amanda McKenzie explaining how on this episode of The Briefing.
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Headlines:
GDP growth in March quarter was 0.3%, lower than expected
Carlton dick pic case to be heard in public
Protests in Britain over police actions during stabbing death
Active fighting again between Iran and the US
Bear attacks in Japan are on the rise
Deep Dive:
The accounting firm KPMG is in crisis, after a whistleblower revealed KPMG had used confidential client information to secure further work for itself. Accounting firms are meant to be the upstanding citizens of the corporate world – now, though, KPMG is at risk of losing customers who no longer trust their documents will be kept secret.
In this episode of The Briefing, Natarsha Belling is joined by Tansy Harcourt, senior writer for The Australian.
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