Good morning. The RBA is again expected to raise the cash rate today, marking the fastest run-up since 1994. And as the UK abandons its plan to cut tax for high earners, pressure is growing on the Labor government in Australia to do the same.
Police in Queensland and New South Wales failed to investigate a series of alleged sexual assaults against a 14-year-old girl, lost key documents related to the case, and later told the alleged victim that her formal statement had been “destroyed”, a Guardian Australia investigation has found. Karen Iles’s case was assigned to Queensland detectives, but there is no evidence that a substantive investigation ever took place, or that named suspects and witnesses were ever interviewed or contacted.
