Problems arise within the PM's advisory group on the Voice. Are these issues that can be resolved? Is it too early to say? HK Jack believes the Voice may be subject to legal challenge where it advises the Executive. Some lawyers say it will, others say it won't.

Meanwhile our state school system continues its decline with enrolments in independent schools continuing to rise. State and federal schisms mean no government has the courage to address the problem.

With the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine falling this week, the Two Jacks note that more than half a million Russians have fled the country, numbers similar to the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

In sport, the men's cricket XI sweeps its way to a humiliating loss.