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Directors of companies connected to Sanjeev Gupta have sought protection under safe-harbour laws ahead of today's first creditors’ meeting of the failed Whyalla steelworks in South Australia, as the tycoon fights to save his industrial empire.

Meanwhile, with a federal election looming, Australia’s largest property companies have called on the government to instigate a “wartime response” to the country's growing housing crisis.

And former RBA boss Philip Lowe is a "glass half full" kind of man and as chair of Future Generation Australia he’s on a mission to make us all more optimistic.