5 Nov 2025

Australia: Spy threat, streamers to pay, inflation warning

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 5 November 2025
Images of Melbourne Cup, TV streaming and ASIO boss Mike Burgess.

Photo: RNZ

Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to talk about a warning from the head of the country's domestic spy agency ASIO that social cohesion is fraying in ways not experienced before, and the nation has never faced so many threats "at scale".

The biggest streaming services will soon be subjected to Australian-context quotas, the Reserve Bank governor has waned that inflation will remain stubbornly high through next year and The Race That Stops A Nation saw the second-ever female jockey ride to victory in the Melbourne Cup.

Karen Middleton is a political journalist based in Canberra