Morning Report Essentials for Tuesday 17 December 2024

On today's episode, Treasury will release its Half Year Economic and Fiscal Update on Tuesday afternoon, Local councils will come under greater scrutiny next year as the Government cracks down on what it says are nice-to-haves, Close to a thousand people are feared to be dead after the worst cyclone in 90 years struck the French island of Mayotte, and a scientist says Santa Claus may use tricks of quantum physics to help him deliver gifts around the world on Christmas Eve.