09:32Coalition talks collapse as budget deadline looms07:32The quiet redrawing of the electoral map05:32Central bank holds rates as inflation cools03:32Inside the $40bn deal that reshaped the industry01:32The models are getting smaller — and that changes everything23:32Chip supply eases, but the bottleneck just moved21:32A retrospective that finally does her justice19:32The novel everyone is arguing about09:32Coalition talks collapse as budget deadline looms07:32The quiet redrawing of the electoral map05:32Central bank holds rates as inflation cools03:32Inside the $40bn deal that reshaped the industry01:32The models are getting smaller — and that changes everything23:32Chip supply eases, but the bottleneck just moved21:32A retrospective that finally does her justice19:32The novel everyone is arguing about
The dull, rule-bound, unglamorous parts of public life are the parts holding it together.
By Daniel Vega·· 1 min read
The details, still being negotiated late into the evening, point to a wider realignment that few in the capital were willing to predict a year ago.
What happens next depends less on the headline figures than on the quiet arithmetic beneath them — and on whether the people in the room can be persuaded that the alternative is worse.
For now, both sides are briefing hard and conceding nothing. The deadline, everyone agrees, is real.
