Australia correspondent Karen Middleton discusses the new Defence Strategic Review unveiled by the government that has a renewed focus on the Indo-Pacific region.
Also an overhaul to the structure of the Reserve Bank following criticism it's handled its central task of overseeing monetary policy through setting official interest rates; a parliamentary inquiry has found that between 2 and 20 per cent of Australians infected with Covid-19 have developed 'long Covid' and there's been a deluge of tributes for Australian comedy legend Barry Humphries, aka Dame Edna.
Karen Middleton is chief political correspondent for The Saturday Paper.
(Australian comedian, actor and author Barry Humphries, dressed as his alter ego, Dame Edna Everage, at a press conference in Sydney on 5 July, 2012. Photo: AFP / Pool / Greg Wood
