The Briefing

Wednesday Headlines:
One Nation support plateaus in new poll
Search for missing baby boy in South Australia continues today
Human casualties confirmed after magnitude 7.1 earthquake hits Japan
Ben Carroll calls for Royal Commission as Opposition criticises his integrity
3.6 million people track Qantas flight to France
Deep Dive: Jacinta Allan has stepped down from the Victorian Labor leadership after less than three years in the role.
With an election just four months away, how does her decision affect the party's chances of winning? And can Labor get back on top in Victoria?
In this episode of The Briefing, Channel 7's Political Editor, Mark Riley joins Sacha Barbour Gatt to explain.
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What does it really take to run Australia’s most iconic airline, and oversee one of the biggest public backlashes in corporate history?
Alan Joyce has written a tell-all memoir, pulling back the curtain on his high-stakes leadership, political access, Chairman's Lounge secrets, and the personal cost of being one of Australia's first openly gay CEOs.
In this episode of The Briefing, the former Qantas boss sits down for an unvarnished chat about his fifteen years at the helm, his new book Riding the Jet Stream, and whether he regrets any of the calls that have defined his legacy.
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Tuesday Headlines:
Vic Labor leadership spill could happen today
Hanson considering High Court after losing Faruqi appeal
Wildfires burn across France and Spain
Australia eyes its first new refinery in 60 years
AusAlert test hailed a 'success', but Queensland won't use it
Deep Dive: For over a century, Qantas built a reputation as Australia’s most trusted airline ... until COVID forced a desperate survival strategy that triggered the biggest reputational crisis in its history.
Former CEO Alan Joyce was the man at the helm during those three years, overseeing brutal layoffs, emergency repatriations and a response that saved the company from impending bankruptcy.
But that also came with severe public backlash that defined his final years at the helm.
In this episode of The Briefing, Sacha Barbour Gatt sits down with Joyce to discuss his new memoir Riding the Jet Stream and his own reflections on what it took to save the Flying Kangaroo, and whether he regrets any of it.
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Monday Headlines:
Jacinta Allan expected to face leadership challenge
US and Iran pause strikes as fears petrol could return to $2 a litre in Australia
Berlin gay pride terror suspect shot dead
More bird flu detections in South Australia
Australia's flag bearer wins gold at the Commonwealth Games
Deep Dive: There’s a good chance your phone and millions of others will freak out this afternoon.
If things go to plan, all compatible mobile devices in Australia will sound a loud siren at 2pm AEST and display a "CRITICAL AUSALERT", as the federal government tests a new nationwide emergency warning system.
In this episode of The Briefing, Chris Spyrou is joined by QUT Associate Professor Paula Dootson to unpack how the system works and who it might leave behind. They also discuss the unsolved risk for domestic violence victim-survivors who keep a hidden phone, and what some of the backlash says about our trust in government.
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OpenAI admitted this week that two of its most powerful models broke out of a sealed test environment and hacked another company - on their own initiative, to steal the answers to an exam they were sitting.

The AI lab says it’s unprecedented but it lands about a month after the Five Eyes spy alliance - the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand and Australia - warned that advanced AI is accelerating the speed, scale and sophistication of cyber threats, and that the shift would take months, not years. Australia's own signals directorate put its name to that warning.
So how worried should we be? And what can any of us actually do about it?

In this bonus episode of The Briefing, we revisit Chris Spyrou’s conversation with cybersecurity expert Alastair MacGibbon, the founding head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre, recorded in the days after the Five Eyes warning was issued.
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