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Thursday Headlines: 

  • Pause in fighting between US and Iran over as Trump threatens to ‘beat the f****** shit out of Iran’
  • SA police call off search for missing 3-month-old boy
  • Bird flu has first local transmission
  • Rate hike unlikely after inflation numbers lower than expected
  • OpenAI's rogue agent also hacked other companies

Deep Dive: Australia's no stranger to famous faces trading their day jobs for politics. Midnight Oil frontman Peter Garrett, broadcaster Derryn Hinch, Olympians Nova Peris and Zali Steggall, as well as former journalists Zoe Daniel and Maxine McKew. 

But only one of them has unseated a sitting Prime Minister. 

Hannah Ferguson is looking to become the second. 

In this episode of The Briefing, Chris Spyrou is joined by Ferguson to unpack her independent tilt at Anthony Albanese in his seat of Grayndler - why she won't be joining forces with the Greens or Teals, and some of the policy platforms and values at the heart of her campaign. 

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