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Australia counts cost of gas manoeuvres

Peter Dutton is the latest political leader with a new plan to lower energy prices. Will his gas policy work any better than all the others?

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RBA won’t join desperate guessing game

Central banks are as much on edge as markets, as the world waits to learn the impact and extent of Donald Trump’s tariffs. Caution reigns at the...

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Why Albanese is confident of winning – partly thanks to Trump

The government quietly hopes the Trump effect will boost its chances, but the focus of the election campaign will be resolutely on domestic...

28.03.2025 4

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Chalmers’ tax wedge gives Dutton licence to thrill

The Albanese government is trying to fashion a tactical victory from budget strategic failure, but Peter Dutton has a chance to turn the tables.

26.03.2025 1

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With a $5 a week tax cut, Labor limps away from global threats

Economic reform? Managing global risk? No, this budget is all about Labor struggling back into office with the promise of better to come.

26.03.2025 9

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Friendly fire hits Australian universities

Local universities are caught up in Donald Trump’s culture wars. But the threat is partly home-grown and self-inflicted.

24.03.2025 4

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Budget inaction is not what’s needed at a time of Trump turbulence

Jim Chalmers’ budget will set the scene for an election campaign dominated by global noise but domestic policy silence.

21.03.2025 6

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Trump’s MAGA dreams conjure a world nightmare

Donald Trump values his relationship with dictators far more than that with democratic allies, making the global economic and national security...

19.03.2025 10

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APRA holds firm against deregulation push

The banking regulator is resisting the US push for greater deregulation to boost growth. But can that last given the international upheaval under way?

18.03.2025 7

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Reality bites critical-minerals hopes

Australia’s ambition of processing critical minerals is mostly a dream and one that won’t persuade Trump to withhold tariffs on our exports,...

17.03.2025 3

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Consumers trapped by rising cost of energy failure and power bills

Power prices will be a key election topic as Labor sells the benefits of renewables and the Coalition insists nuclear offers the only affordable...

14.03.2025 6

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Trump’s tariffs hit markets and politics

It is now clear to world leaders and Wall Street that the president’s version of transactional politics includes the blunt reality of universal...

12.03.2025 6

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Canada goes hard on Trump while Australia goes quiet

The traditionally polite Canadian government is condemning Donald Trump’s America as it faces a tough election. Australia’s government is far more...

10.03.2025 3

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Donald Trump is the political equivalent of a natural disaster

Trump’s tariffs on Australian aluminium will have a modest economic impact, but his assault on US allies is changing Australia’s place in the world.

07.03.2025 6

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Trump’s glory moment upstages the world

The US president’s address to congress was Donald Trump’s favourite version of reality TV, featuring himself as the star.

05.03.2025 3

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Why Trump is still business gold

Major US financial executives are confident about the strength of the US economy and the benefits of the president’s deregulatory agenda. How all...

04.03.2025 9

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Trump marches on regardless of US allies

The frantic manoeuvring over Ukraine is one more aspect of the revolution the US president is imposing on a deeply worried world. What happens next?

03.03.2025 2

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Albanese hit hard by live fire from all sides

From Chinese warships, to Trump’s tariffs, to Australia’s sense of itself, Anthony Albanese is struggling to show he has convincing answers.

28.02.2025 6

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Ukraine pays the price for Trump’s desire for headlines

The deal Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is being forced to sign highlights the confusion in business and politics created by Donald Trump’s...

26.02.2025 9

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Frustrated Woodside wants to step on the gas

CEO Meg O’Neill is optimistic about a big future for oil and gas projects despite lacklustre share price and contradictory messages from governments...

25.02.2025 10

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Chalmers straps in for trip to Trump World

The treasurer’s visit to Washington this week shows the difficulties of navigating the risks and presidential whims dominating any interaction with...

24.02.2025 20

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Why Albanese is going for broke at Whyalla

The prime minister is intent on saving jobs and the South Australian steel industry with a joint government bailout of $2.4 billion. But his hopes of...

21.02.2025 5

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Australia still betting on rare earths

The Albanese government hoped for a new resources boom in new critical minerals projects and processing. There’s been a hard reckoning since, but...

19.02.2025 4

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After one cut, Bullock rules out more pre-election rate relief

Even the fiercely independent inflation fighter Michele Bullock knew she would follow predecessor Phil Lowe in becoming Political and Public Enemy No....

18.02.2025 4

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Why BlueScope is optimistic about Trump tariffs

The financial results for Australia’s biggest steelmaker show the mixed fortunes of businesses coping with the confusion of Donald Trump’s planned...

17.02.2025 8

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Can Albanese survive the Trump storm heading into election?

As Labor prepares for an election, any momentum for its agenda and achievements keeps being blown off course by the will and whims of Donald Trump.

14.02.2025 10

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Why Comyn is cautious celebrating CBA’s bumper profit

Chief executive Matt Comyn has plenty to celebrate in the bank’s results. Unlike politicians, he prefers to avoid claiming much credit for that.

12.02.2025 10

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No guarantees for Trump’s unlikely tariff buddy

A relieved Anthony Albanese managed to persuade the president to at least consider exempting Australia from the 25 per cent tariffs on US steel and...

11.02.2025 7

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Trump lumps allies in with enemies in tariff chaos

US tariffs on steel and aluminium look likely to embroil Australia. What’s an under-pressure Anthony Albanese to do when a president doesn’t care...

10.02.2025 5

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Victoria turns into ground zero for Labor

Why a state byelection has Anthony Albanese biting his fingernails. The west Melbourne seat is being treated by both sides as a litmus test for the...

07.02.2025 3

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Reality will bite Trump’s big dreams in Gaza

The US president’s vision of the US taking over Gaza and turning it into a peaceful, prosperous property development project is a fantasy.

05.02.2025 10

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Trump is using tariffs as a weapon, no matter the cost

The US president’s use of tariffs against China in his first term is now in full bloom as a general panacea to impose on even close US allies for a...

03.02.2025 6

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Albanese is stuck in fast-moving Trump world

The failure of the government to generate any excitement for its agenda is as alarming for Labor stalwarts and MPs as it is encouraging for the...

31.01.2025 20

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Falling inflation boosts Labor’s election push

The Albanese government will be even more relieved than the Reserve Bank that the latest consumer price index shows a further drop in inflation.

29.01.2025 5

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How Trump’s war on green energy affects Australia

Donald Trump’s plans for an energy revolution will blow strong political winds across Australia’s energy market.

27.01.2025 10

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Trump fires up war on woke

Donald Trump is waging war on DEI policies. Does this mean the defeat of woke – or just another front in the fight?

23.01.2025 8

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Donald Trump and the art of the diplomatic deal

Donald Trump has always loved a deal. Now he wants to force governments to gamble at his own White House table.

22.01.2025 8

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Trump’s revolution takes shape and extraordinary becomes the norm

The formal traditions of an American presidential inauguration couldn’t obscure the extent of the Trump revolution immediately under way.

21.01.2025 40

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Trump’s triumphant return shows just how much the ground has shifted

The president-elect says his administration won’t waste a minute in delivering on its promises. The Trump revolution is under way.

20.01.2025 3

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Inflation risk crashes into political risk

Market tantrums and the fall in the Australian dollar in response to the US Fed show that next year is likely to be even more volatile.

19.12.2024 8

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Budget update sounds a clear warning

Jim Chalmers is good at relaxed rhetoric about the economy. The mid-year figures are much tougher to explain.

18.12.2024 6

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Critical minerals manufacturing dream tempered by harsh reality

Falling prices mean Australia’s ambitions to develop the industry and downstream processing are on pause. Is this a waiting game, or is it all over?

17.12.2024 4

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Nuclear play snares energy industry in political pincers

Peter Dutton is betting big on nuclear power. Labor labels this economic insanity. And the public won’t believe either party’s estimates of what...

16.12.2024 5

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Energy efforts run into reality

The risk of power blackouts is real and rising this summer – along with the costs of frantically trying to avoid that happening,

28.11.2024 3

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Why interest rates won’t come down

Forget the headline number. The latest inflation figures are not good news for a government trying to sell its economic credentials.

27.11.2024 4

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Trump’s tariff war won’t spare America’s allies

Donald Trump is promising 25 per cent tariffs on supposedly close allies like Canada and Mexico as well as China. Where does that leave Australia?

26.11.2024 3

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Labor struggles down the last stretch

The Albanese government’s numbers don’t add up for voters as the election looms.

25.11.2024 3

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Chalmers sells intervention as economic salve

The US may have a different culture, but its politics still provide a recent lesson in the electoral risks of rural voters feeling ignored by...

21.11.2024 2

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Trump picks put Australia in the crossfire with China

The frenzy around a reinvigorated Republican administration can only make the voter ride much bumpier for everyone, Anthony Albanese included.

20.11.2024 5

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Foreign students row is political kryptonite

The government accuses Peter Dutton of hypocrisy for rejecting its foreign student caps, but the Opposition Leader is not about to do Labor any...

19.11.2024 2

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