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Gas tax push widens, amid pressure for export levy

Gas tax push widens, amid pressure for export levy

Australia’s peak council for community services, the Australian Council of Social Service, has joined the torrent of support that includes the...

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Mark Ogge

Halving fuel excise is smart politics, but flawed policy

Halving fuel excise is smart politics, but flawed policy

With fuel prices staying high, the federal government has announced a halving of the fuel excise for three months. This will cost the federal budget...

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Locky xianglong liu

With AI, judgment may be our scarcest resource

With AI, judgment may be our scarcest resource

Artificial intelligence is everywhere. It is drafting marketing plans, writing code, preparing legal briefs and advising small business owners on...

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Andrew Leigh

Running on empty: Hard truths on security

Running on empty: Hard truths on security

Energy security is national security. And for all the posturing from conservatives about “seeing Mad Max levels around the country right now”...

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Amy Remeikis

Business myth of minimum wage rises, recessions

Business myth of minimum wage rises, recessions

In life, it is nice to have things you can count on, and every year at this time you can absolutely be guaranteed to hear business groups and their...

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Greg Jericho

Albanese govt struggles in ‘stress test’ of Iran war

Albanese govt struggles in ‘stress test’ of Iran war

Crises “stress test” governments and countries. Memories remain vivid of Covid, which put immense pressures on the Australian economy, the...

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Michelle Grattan

Big Tech addiction ruling will reshape social media

Big Tech addiction ruling will reshape social media

The verdict in a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday may become one of the most consequential legal challenges that Big Tech has faced. This is an...

27.03.2026 6

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Carolina rossini

Despite Labor’s landslide, Australia remains divided

Despite Labor’s landslide, Australia remains divided

A new book on the 2025 election reveals Labor’s commanding win – but also a fragmented electorate, a weakened opposition and a volatile political...

27.03.2026 10

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John Warhurst

Truth about if a gas export tax will hurt Australians

Truth about if a gas export tax will hurt Australians

The New Daily readers overwhelmingly support a push by the Greens and crossbench MPs to impose a 25 per cent levy on gas exports. In a reader poll...

26.03.2026 10

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Greg Jericho

One Nation surge 2.0 – this time it is structural

One Nation surge 2.0 – this time it is structural

One Nation’s performance in the South Australian election has been rightly identified as a significant moment in Australian politics. Since the end...

26.03.2026 10

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Zareh Ghazarian

Profit push is back: Why inflation is really rising

Profit push is back: Why inflation is really rising

New analysis of the national accounts reveals that all of the increase in inflation in the latter half of 2025 was due to increased profits, rather...

25.03.2026 6

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Greg jericho and david richardson

The Stats Guy: What I would change at unis

The Stats Guy: What I would change at unis

I had a strange dream the other night. I woke up as the chancellor of a large Australian university. Tens of thousands of students. Billions in...

25.03.2026 10

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Simon Kuestenmacher

How disruptions to supply chains can affect our lives

How disruptions to supply chains can affect our lives

With the Iran war continuing to escalate, the world is grappling with the closure of the busy sea traffic lane, the Strait of Hormuz. You may feel...

24.03.2026 10

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Sanjoy Paul

Libs sank themselves in SA, Coalition may do same

Libs sank themselves in SA, Coalition may do same

The dominant reason for Labor’s landslide victory in South Australia is that the party led by Peter Malinskasus has been a moderate, progressive...

24.03.2026 10

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Craig Emerson

Jobless rise exposes Reserve's costly misread

Jobless rise exposes Reserve's costly misread

In February the unemployment rate rose from 4.1 per cent to 4.3 per cent, providing further evidence the Reserve Bank misread the economy when it made...

23.03.2026 10

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Greg Jericho

SA election result will send shivers down Taylor’s spine

SA election result will send shivers down Taylor’s spine

As he looks to his own coming wrestle with One Nation in the May 9 Farrer by-election, Angus Taylor can only take from Saturday’s South Australian...

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Michelle Grattan

Soaring petrol prices have exposed a 'rotten core'

Soaring petrol prices have exposed a 'rotten core'

So much of what passes for Australian political discourse relies on existential threats. It’s easy to make grandiose statements and take positions...

22.03.2026 20

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Amy Remeikis

The left brought a thesaurus to a knife fight

The left brought a thesaurus to a knife fight

Here’s a phrase that used to mean something else: Social cohesion. It described the project of building a society where people from different...

21.03.2026 20

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Peter Stahel

Chalmers wants to turn uncertainty into reform

Chalmers wants to turn uncertainty into reform

When he talks about the May 12 budget, Treasurer Jim Chalmers always stresses that what’s done on things like the capital gains tax discount will be...

21.03.2026 10

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Michelle Grattan

Who is voting One Nation? Poll reveals SA hotspots

With just a day left in the South Australian election campaign, exclusive polling shows how much the Liberals stand to lose and who is voting for One...

20.03.2026 10

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Helen karakulak

Iran war belongs to Trump – and it’s not going well

US President Donald Trump is a victim of his own success. After a quick strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities last June and the capture of...

20.03.2026 10

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Steven Harper

Global democracy hasn’t been this bad since 1978

The health of global democracy is regressing to Cold War-era levels. For the average global citizen, democracy is now back where it was in 1978,...

19.03.2026 10

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Robert finkeldey

Federal budget needs real tax reform, not tinkering

Australia’s tax system increasingly favours capital and older wealth while leaving younger Australians with rising debts and shrinking...

19.03.2026 10

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Crispin Hull

Manosphere didn’t appear out of nowhere

Louis Theroux’s latest Netflix documentary Inside the Manosphere has many viewers asking why so many young men are drawn to online influencers who...

18.03.2026 20

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Simon Kuestenmacher

Can the 'Dubai brand' survive this ME war?

Once a small fishing and pearling village, Dubai has grown to become a major financial, commercial and tourism hub in the Middle East. It is the...

18.03.2026 10

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Hassan f gholipour and mohammad reza farzanegan

West can't handle the human cost of wars it starts

While we all face higher petrol prices, increasing cost of living impacts and the inconvenience of cancelled overseas flights, spare a thought for the...

18.03.2026 10

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Percy q wood

Income splitting: What it means for couples

New Nationals leader Matt Canavan has proposed allowing couples with dependent children to split their income for tax purposes. In simple terms, the...

17.03.2026 20

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Donovan castelyn

Fuel shocks show why electric freight can’t wait

Australia’s road freight industry is used to navigating uncertainty. Tight margins, labour shortages and volatile fuel costs have long been part of...

17.03.2026 20

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Gareth ridge

RBA should hold interest rates, but it likely won't

The Reserve Bank meets this week to decide if it will lift, cut or hold interest rates. The markets are predicting a rise. Given the surging price of...

16.03.2026 10

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Matt Grudnoff

Aged care: When it’s good, it can be excellent

Aged Care. The very words are enough to chill the room. It’s the place no one wants to “end up”. The thought that, at the end of a productive...

16.03.2026 10

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Kaye Fallick

Treatment of Iran players full of contradictions

We may never know whether Donald Trump’s social media post about the Iranian women’s soccer team had anything to do with how the Australian...

16.03.2026 20

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Abul Rizvi

Lost, disconnected or wrong? It's a leadership fail

What to say about the past week other than it is further evidence of how lost Australia’s leadership remains? Or, at the very least, how completely...

15.03.2026 30

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Amy Remeikis

No ‘passengers’: AUKUS pulls Aus into Iran war

The AUKUS agreement has dragged Australia into the Trump administration’s war on Iran, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese accused of obfuscating...

14.03.2026 30

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Tegan George

No mistake, Richardson resignation is a blow to PM

By personality and at his stage in life, Dennis Richardson is a man who, on occasion, stands on his dignity. Richardson, 78, has a stellar public...

14.03.2026 20

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Michelle Grattan

Go for the jugular: A global energy shock is coming

The Strait of Hormuz is the jugular vein of the world’s economic system. Iran has it in a chokehold and can put the knife across the Strait any time...

13.03.2026 20

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Eugene Doyle

The Liberals at it again, preferencing One Nation

If you’ve been following politics long enough, you might remember John Howard insisting that the Liberal Party will always put One Nation last on...

12.03.2026 20

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Craig Emerson

Memes and missiles: War becomes entertainment

A week into Trump’s illegal war against Iran, the White House released a 42-second video on X, featuring movie scenes spliced with real military...

12.03.2026 10

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Rob okun

Canavan v Joyce as Nats choose radical leadership

Matt Canavan was once Barnaby Joyce’s staffer, and later his closest ally and most vociferous spruiker. Not to mention his best political friend....

12.03.2026 30

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Michelle Grattan

What to expect from Iran's new supreme leader

The death of Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, during the holy month of Ramadan marks one of the most consequential turning points in the history...

11.03.2026 10

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Mehmet Ozalp

Scramble to elect leader after Littleproud quits

David Littleproud’s decision to quit as Nationals Leader on Tuesday came as a shock to colleagues and follows a period of extreme turbulence for...

11.03.2026 20

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Michelle Grattan

What to expect from the Farrer byelection

A month ago, Sussan Ley was the leader of the Liberal Party. Two weeks later, she retired from parliament altogether after losing the leadership to...

10.03.2026 20

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Skye Predavec

Grievance politics is easy. Dignity is often missing

At the centre of most political grievance is a demand for dignity. This is easily exploited; it is easy, and, in this climate, fruitful, to claim that...

08.03.2026 20

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Amy Remeikis

Would Labor support the Iran war in opposition?

When Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney addressed federal parliament on Thursday, his well-crafted speech had one gaping hole. It did not mention the...

07.03.2026 20

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Michelle Grattan

Liberal review explains defeat – not a path back

The leaked review of the Liberal Party’s 2025 election defeat details campaign failures and organisational problems. What it avoids is the harder...

06.03.2026 20

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David Solomon

Time to look at gambling as a ‘public health matter’

The 2026 football season is upon us, that means that, once again, our screens and stadia will be polluted with wall-to-wall gambling advertising. Not...

05.03.2026 40

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Monique Ryan

How the Iran war will hit our whole business model

Regular readers of my column will know that for years I have argued that Australia runs a rather simple, but historically very effective, national...

04.03.2026 30

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Simon Kuestenmacher

Trump was a joke, until he wasn't: We should learn

The only positive I took from Donald Trump’s shock victory in the 2016 US presidential election was that I was able to collect on a wager I had...

04.03.2026 20

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Ed Coper

Booked to fly to the Middle East? Don't cancel yet

Travellers are being advised not to cancel their tickets for flights through the Middle East and check with their airlines, as airspace remains closed...

03.03.2026 20

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Natasha Heap

How Australia should fix its capital gains tax dilemma

The 50 per cent capital gains tax discount departs from the original purpose of taxing real gains, entrenches inequality and unfairly advantages...

01.03.2026 20

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Bob Mcmullan

For many Iranians, Ali Khamenei won't be revered

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader for 36 years, has been killed in US and Israeli airstrikes on his country, Iranian state media report....

01.03.2026 20

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Andrew Thomas