Want to get this in your inbox at lunchtime every weekday? Financial Review subscribers can sign up for The Brief newsletter here. Plus start your day with our Before the Bell newsletter and read a full wrap of the day’s news in Market Wrap.In today’s news, Westpac mortgage applications dive after the federal budget, Anthony Albanese is urged to apologise to Japan’s prime minister over a melons joke, and the Future Fund aims to ride the artificial intelligence boom.Loading...