Allegra Spender defends voting against CGT reform – as it happened

Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Interim vice-chancellor of the ANU, professor Rebekah Brown, says that the reputational damage to ANU over a series of high-profile scandals and governance failures has cost the university $100m. It comes after several reports into poor culture at the university, allegations of bullying by the former chancellor Julie Bishop, made at a Senate inquiry, and its management of a controversial $250m cost-cutting program. The later led to the resignation of former vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell, while Bishop separately announced her resignation earlier this year. Brown tells Senate estimates there’s no doubt that “things are very challenged at the ANU”, particularly the impact on the university’s donor pipeline and the ability to attract international students. double quotation markIt is very significant, and we are still modelling the impact, the impact is still live. Our modelling from the end of last year ... it’s in the order of $100m. We’re going to close the blog now. Before we go, here are today’s big headlines: Barnaby Joyce and a One Nation colleague have struggled to explain the party’s housing policy, w