Good morning. Anthony Albanese will use a landmark speech today to promise “serious and rapid improvement” in economic equality for women as part of a shift in the government’s focus to a reform agenda. And a senior US official has warned that democracy itself is under threat in the November elections.
In a speech to mark 100 days since the 21 May election, the prime minister will tell the National Press Club that while the government is still in the “recovery” phase in the wake of the pandemic, he wants to move to “reform and renewal” over the course of the next term. “After a wasted decade, we are not wasting a day,” Albanese will say, according to excerpts of his draft speech. He lists cleaner and cheaper energy, better skills and training, cheaper childcare and a future made in Australia as his key priorities.
