Another tranche - amounting more than 3 million pages - of the Epstein files has been published.

The US Department of Justice says this is the final drop, but there are reportedly millions of more pages being kept from view.

So is there anything in them that hurts President Donald Trump?

Today, international and political editor Peter Hartcher on how the Epstein files are driving Trump's "war pageant".

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The Reserve Bank lifted the cash rate for the first time in two years yesterday, to 3.85 per cent. Exactly as mortgage holders have been fearing.

But what if many of us are not actually in the cost-of-living crisis that we keep being told that we’re in? And that this new interest rate is comparatively good?

Today, senior economics reporter Matt Wade on how obsessing over the cost of living hides the real challenges of our age.

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Can the Coalition reunite, after two weeks of political infighting? And will the Liberal and National parties’ leaders, Sussan Ley and David Littleproud, even keep their jobs, given the threats to their leadership that continue to play out, as this episode goes to air?

These are only two of the political tripwires that are at high risk of being stepped on, this week; a period that veteran political analyst Sean Kelly calls “absolutely insane”.

Today columnist Sean Kelly on this week’s expected chaos and whether it might lead the government to finally enact bold changes, in housing and tax reform.

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