Midday Report Essentials for Thursday 18 June 2026
Shane Jones defends spending nearly $65k - double the budgeted cost - on travelling to a mining convention in Canada - including having a limo on call and upgrading to business class flights. GDP numbers are out and show good growth before the Iran war broke out, where does it leave us now that it's over ANZ chief economist Sharon Zolner answered that one. The text of the peace deal between America and Iran has been released, international relations expert Robert Patman on the questions of nukes, sanctions and what Trump's war achieved.
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