Treasurer Jim Chalmers delivered his 'confronting' statement on the economy and budget outlook at Parliament today. Economist Danielle Wood from the Grattan Institute provides her analysis. On top of these economy woes is a potential outbreak of foot and mouth disease. A worse case scenario estimates a cost of eighty billion dollars over ten years. That doesn't include the costs to tourism or mental health but it does put into perspective why we spend so much on biosecurity measures. The University of New England's Susie Hester explains. And the enablers. An estimated two trillion US dollars of illicit funds, stolen by corrupt officials and transnational organised crime, flows into the West's capital markets every year. So how does it get there? Frank Vogl exposes who the enablers are and what can be done to stop them.

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