The reverberations of the moment have also reached back decades: In Minnesota last week, Mr. Floyd was invoked as part of a successful effort to secure the posthumous pardon of Max Mason, a black man wrongly convicted of raping a white woman 100 years ago.As I told the pardon board, the case of Max Mason is like the case of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Philando Castile, said Jerry Blackwell, the Minneapolis lawyer who drafted the pardon application, mentioning the names of other black men whose violent deaths have become high-profile human right
2.58pm:The chance of the Reserve Bank cutting the official cash rate next week have increased significantly after figures released by the ABS showed a reduction in mining investment expectations, writes BusinessDay's Max Mason.