Ginny Anderson

They really only like the big four Australian-owned banks.

We can't see any reason at all why the big four Australian banks, who are the most profitable in the OECD, and this is according to the OECD,

why they aren't paying the levy themselves, right?

So, I mean, why burden the small banks with helping pay for prudential regulation when it's the big banks that are benefiting from it?

Very good morning, Heather.

Yeah, if you believe the reports of it, what the Americans are saying and what the Israelis are saying, two different versions.

But, yeah, a lot of stuff happening behind the scenes as the Iran peace talks seem to be faltering, if anything much is happening at all.

Marco Rubio, the U.S.

Secretary of State, has just been on Capitol Hill where the political atmosphere was, shall we say, combative.

He was pressed by Democratic Senator Cory Booker.

there is still a U.S.

military blockade, I guess, amid a ceasefire which has been breached repeatedly while Trump threatens to resume a wide-range military action from time to time.

So much of this seems to be debate over wording.

There was never a formal declaration of war by Trump, as you know, since that would have drawn the Congress into the decision.

So he calls it a skirmish and other different things.

Trump now saying he's bored with the war.

He started telling CNBC, the business network where he, the peace talks,

that he could, quote, care less if the talks are over.

Quote, if they're over, they're over.

If they're not, you know, I think they took too much time.