‘Clearly failed’: Minister Watt moves to create CFMEU special powers

That’s a wrap – thank you for reading The Australian Financial Review blog today. These were some of our main stories:

• Inside the Paris “homes” of the world’s best athletes: There is a way to get a glimpse of the world’s best athletes when you’re at the Olympics. And it isn’t at the pool, on the track, or at the Champions Park.
• Marles denies any sinister meaning in AUKUS “political commitments”: The new AUKUS treaty does not lock Australia into accepting nuclear waste from the US and UK, or commit to joining a war over Taiwan.
• Ukraine punches through Putin’s lines in surprise tactic: A government in Russia’s Kursk region declared a state of emergency as Ukrainian forces advanced several kilometres across the border.