| Good afternoon, A shock decline in the unemployment rate to 3.9 per cent last month threatens to derail the prospect of an early interest rate cut just as hopes of a move lower by the Reserve Bank in February had been revived. The withdrawal of Alinta Energy from WA’s offshore wind race thins the field as concern grows about an industry once heralded as a solution to meeting net zero goals. Richard Pratt’s daughter Paula Hitchcock wants to ‘impound’ the income of one of her billionaire half-siblings as security, as their family feud continues in court. | 
