Israel strikes notorious Tehran prison as attacks on Iran intensify – Financial Times

  1. Israel strikes notorious Tehran prison as attacks on Iran intensify  Financial Times
  2. Iran-Israel Live Updates: Israel Pounds Tehran Amid Growing Calls for De-Escalation  The New York Times
  3. Iran’s Fordow nuclear site struck second time as IDF targets access routes  Fox News
  4. Satellite image of an Iranian airport shows an American-made F-14 Tomcat that Israel turned into a burned wreck  Business Insider
  5. Israel hits Basij HQ in Tehran, kills hundreds of IRGC fighters in Iran  The Jerusalem Post
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US-Iran tensions slow tanker traffic through Strait of Hormuz, trade group says – New York Post

  1. US-Iran tensions slow tanker traffic through Strait of Hormuz, trade group says  New York Post
  2. What Is the Strait of Hormuz, and Why Is It Important?  The New York Times
  3. What influences crude oil more? US bombs or Iran's silent allies  Reuters
  4. US asks China to stop Iran from closing Strait of Hormuz  BBC
  5. Can Iran really shut down the Strait of Hormuz?  Al Jazeera
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Trump Demands Low Oil Prices After U.S. Attacks on Iran – Rolling Stone

  1. Trump Demands Low Oil Prices After U.S. Attacks on Iran  Rolling Stone
  2. Trump Team Weighed Range of Options for Oil Supply Disruptions  Bloomberg.com
  3. Trump says 'everyone' should keep oil prices lower or they're playing 'into the hands of the enemy'  CNBC
  4. Republican House speaker dismisses efforts to check Trump’s military power against Iran – US politics live  The Guardian
  5. Trump calls for more crude drilling amid jitters that Iran may close critical shipping lane  PBS
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Queensland budget 2025: Crisafulli vows no austerity despite state facing $218bn debt

Premier says you can ‘respect people’s money’ and still lift public services as LNP hands down first budget since 2014

The Queensland premier, David Crisafulli, has promised no austerity in his first budget, despite the state facing a forecast $218bn in debt.

Tuesday’s state budget will be the Liberal National party’s first since 2014. Then led by premier Campbell Newman, the LNP lost government in 2015 after slashing tens of thousands of public service positions and proposing the sell-off of public assets to balance the books.

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