Australia correspondent Bernard Keane looks at the three-day Economic Reform Roundtable underway aimed at generating ideas to boost productivity - who's invited and what are some of the big ideas?
At the same time, some of Australia's biggest companies have been given multi-million dollar fines for how they've treated workers, or anti-competitive behaviour. And Israel has cancelled the visas of Australia's diplomats to the Palestinian Authority over Australia's refusal to allow several extremist Israeli politicians to enter the country.
Bernard Keane is political editor for Crikey.com.au.
Qantas has copped a $90m fine for illegally sacking workers in the pandemic. Photo: Sebastian Kahnert/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa via AFP
