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Why the RBA should ignore calls to raise rates

When the Reserve Bank decided to keep the cash rate on hold on Tuesday, it laid part of the blame on Australia’s weak productivity growth. But is...

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Craig Emerson

How planning stops more housing, and how to fix it

Housing in Australia’s cities is now among the least affordable in the world. At the heart of the problem is the fact we just haven’t built enough...

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Brendan Coates

'Sewer socialism’ revival changed NYC election

Democrat Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral election on Tuesday (US time), in a mammoth victory for the party’s progressive wing. It caps...

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Garritt C Van Dyk

Lib woes are about winning – but not at elections

One of the hardest things for people to understand with this latest Liberal Party implosion is that it’s not rational. “But if they do this on net...

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Amy Remeikis

One Nation could overtake Coalition as opposition

Australia may be on a trajectory where One Nation overtakes the Coalition to become the nation’s main right-wing party. The Coalition’s primary...

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Adrian Beaumont

Tony Abbott wants us to be proud of men like him

Former prime minister (and journalist) Tony Abbott has published a political history of Australia. Across 18 well-written chapters, he narrates the...

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