Labor's high speed rail bet; Barrenjoey and Magellan merger.
Amid intense geopolitical instability - a war in Iran, oil prices surging and markets destabalised - the Australian government is pulling together its May budget which is expected to tie together its ambitious plans with a fresh nation building agenda.
This week we saw a glimpse of what that might look like. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese wrote an Ideas piece for Capital Brief on why Labor is backing the high speed rail project.
In other news this week, fund manager Magellan and investment bank Barrenjoey announced a merger and Capital Brief investigated a very secretive venture capital…
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