10 things you need to know this morning in Australia

Good morning! [View this email via your browser]( [Business Insider Australia]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [LinkedIn]( [Enable Images to View]( [Enable Images to View]( [10 things you need to know this morning in Australia]( Ruslan Kogan is being sued by the competition watchdog, the latest Brexit bedlam and an underwater Uber that can ferry you to the Great Barrier Reef. [Enable Images to View]( [WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange charged with 17 counts for publishing classified US government documents]( The Justice Department has charged the Australian with 17 counts, including violating the Espionage Act. [Enable Images to View]( [Scientists found a billion-year-old fungus, and it could change our understanding of how life migrated to land]( Scientists discovered fossils of the oldest known fungus in the Canadian arctic. [Enable Images to View]( [Enable Images to View] [Melbourne Knowledge Week is here and it is going to make you smarter.]( From the 20th to the 26th of May, Victorian brains will have some serious neurons firing thanks to Melbourne Knowledge Week. [Enable Images to View]( Australian home prices have fallen 7.9% since peaking in September 2017. The falls in the capitals have been even larger over this period at 10.3%. [Enable Images to View]( [It's been more than a year since the US-China trade war started. Here's a timeline of everything that's happened so far.]( The two sides have together placed tariffs on more than $US360 billion worth of each other's products. [Enable Images to View]( [Here are all the major US tech companies blocked behind China's 'Great Firewall']( Huawei, the electronics giant, has been blacklisted in the US over national security fears the Chinese company's technology is being used for state-sponsored spying. [Enable Images to View]( [Recent economic data in Australia hasn't been all that flash, but we finally have something positive to report]( Activity levels at businesses improved at the fastest pace this year in May. [Enable Images to View]( [Downturn nearing its end: Citi expects Australian home prices will be rising by the end of next year]( Australian home prices have fallen 7.9% since peaking in September 2017. The falls in the capitals have been even larger over this period at 10.3%. [Enable Images to View]( [Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff reportedly scandalized Cisco's board by video-calling in to meetings from an elliptical machine in Hawaii]( Benioff, who sat on Cisco's board from 2012 to 2014, would reportedly sometimes video-conference into Cisco board meetings from Hawaii. [Enable Images to View]( [I toured the most expensive condo for sale in a Billionaires' Row skyscraper in NYC, a $58.5 million residence that spans the entire 87th floor.]( Here's what it looks like inside. [Enable Images to View]( Business Insider Australia © 2019 [Allure Media]( [Unsubscribe]( • [Email to a Friend]( • [Privacy Policy](