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Albanese’s New York trip is his trial by fire in diplomacy

The prime minister must be assertive enough to protect Australia’s interests while avoiding any action that could poke the bear.

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New emission targets mean climate wars may be turning a corner

Albanese and Bowen hope to translate their new climate target into significant international support as they head to the United Nations in New York...

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Pacific headwinds frame Albanese-Trump sit down

The task for Anthony Albanese is to use his meeting with Donald Trump to advance that traditional Australian foreign policy goal – engaging the US...

17.09.2025 2

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Why fighting cyber threats is still a human problem in an AI world

Even in the era of automation, the price of cybersecurity will be eternal vigilance. For business, that starts in the C-suite.

16.09.2025 7

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ANZ can’t spin away its blackest day

The saga is a stain on the nine and a half year reign of former chief executive Shayne Elliott and the half-decade tenure of chairman Paul O’Sullivan.

15.09.2025 5

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Australia can’t adapt its way out of missed targets

Bowen’s insistence that the government remains on course to reach its emission targets does little to resolve the fact that they are increasingly...

15.09.2025 3

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Can Albanese agree where he can, and disagree where he must, with Trump?

The best outcome from the US visit might be to adapt the formula Albanese once applied to managing ties with China.

14.09.2025 9

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Why the Pacific is becoming Australia’s most expensive battlefield

Australia’s attempts to win hearts and minds in the Pacific could prove economically and politically ruinous.

12.09.2025 4

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Kirk killing is a reckoning for cancel culture at the barrel of a gun

The normalisation of political violence is a tragic reflection of the perilous state of American democracy, which has been fractured by intense...

11.09.2025 10

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Universities can’t avoid ‘smaller but better’ financial realities

A university’s higher purpose makes it different from other profit-making businesses. Yet they also need to be run as businesses to ensure the...

10.09.2025 3

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Jacinta Price deepens Libs’ divide from migrant Australia

Saying sorry for her ill-judged and divisive remarks is the least she should do to help repair the damage she has done to the Liberal Party and to the...

08.09.2025 2

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Postcode politics could complicate Labor’s late and little NDIS reform

Labor’s plan to restrict NDIS eligibility in the future is just the start. Further reforms to get its costs under control may be hampered by where...

07.09.2025 8

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The brutal trade-offs behind fixing intergenerational inequity

Fixing it will require hard decisions that could create winners and losers, and potentially deepen the perception that one group is benefiting at...

05.09.2025 5

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SafeWork halt on UTS job cuts raises questions of regulatory overreach

SafeWork NSW is redrawing the boundaries of employer responsibility by declaring that corporate restructuring can inflict serious psychological harm...

04.09.2025 3

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Beijing’s show of force sounds alarm in Canberra

The demonstration of China’s weaponry of choice in Beijing should sound the alarm about the urgency of that task in Canberra.

03.09.2025 4

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Supply and demand struggles to add up to affordable housing

Labor’s housing policy including its lender’s mortgage insurance scheme now risks adding to the cyclical pick-up in the housing market by...

02.09.2025 4

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Victoria’s tax and WFH systems hold back office inflection point

The hard reality for the nation’s second-biggest economy is that its interventionist and complex tax regime encourages capital flight.

01.09.2025 6

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Scandals shows super and financial advice ill-prepared for retirement phase

A parliamentary probe to examine what went wrong with the reckless First Guardian and Shield Master investment schemes and any wider systemic risks is...

31.08.2025 4

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Labor can’t subsidise its way through energy transition

The federal government has already seized the low-hanging fruit by spruiking incentives for solar and wind projects.

29.08.2025 5

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American economy will survive Trump’s capitalism shakedown

While Trump’s “very visible hand” is replacing the “invisible hand” of the market, the dynamism and resilience of the US economy suggest it...

28.08.2025 4

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Iran has been exposed but Australia’s antisemitism problem runs deeper

Delaying both the proscription of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and the ambassador’s expulsion has come at a grave cost to social cohesion and...

27.08.2025 9

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WFH a symptom of Victoria’s post-pandemic trauma

The youth crime crisis should prompt soul-searching on both sides of the aisle in Spring Street about the state’s pandemic legacy.

26.08.2025 3

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Labor must make the case for not indexing sophisticated investor test

If the government rejects the regulator’s recommendation, it will need to make a sound and compelling case for why it has opted not to protect...

25.08.2025 4

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Hudson should pay penalty again for Qantas culture fails

Following Justice Michael Lee’s verdict on the airline’s behaviour, the CEO should lose a portion of her bonus either voluntarily or at the behest...

25.08.2025 10

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Summit week through the eyes of business

Despite a supposed focus on investment, corporate Australia’s most realistic pathway to significant productivity gains looks to be deploying AI.

23.08.2025 10

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Summit legacy can’t just be higher taxes

Three-and-a-half months into its second three-year term, the government can’t just sit on its hands when it comes to difficult reform.

22.08.2025 10

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Diluting performance test could soften superannuation’s core mandate

Australia should be wary of any changes to the current system that would tamper with the funds’ fiduciary duty to act in their members’ best...

20.08.2025 5

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PM and treasurer have at least admitted the productivity problem

The real litmus test will be whether the Albanese government uses the roundtable as a platform to launch a meaningful productivity-enhancing policy...

19.08.2025 4

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Long-term vision for universities hung up on short-term politics

Jason Clare’s blueprint calls into question the raison d’être of universities and whether they should exist merely to fill the pipeline of human...

18.08.2025 9

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The week Chalmers can start to craft an economic legacy

The Treasurer’s challenge is to harness the summit proceedings to make the case to the Australian people about a meaningful reform agenda.

18.08.2025 10

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Labor courts business as economic pressures bite

Between CEOs pushing for an always-on culture and unions proposing four-day work weeks, business should set a realistic agenda for next week’s summit.

15.08.2025 3

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Could an EV road-user charge pave the way for more tax reform?

Maybe committing to modernising how we pay to use roads might whet the appetite for other taxation reforms that need to be discussed at next week’s...

14.08.2025 6

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Roundtable can’t be a talkfest with no concrete outcomes

The Albanese government must not up turn up at the table on Tuesday with no big ideas of its own to dig the country out of its economic hole.

13.08.2025 5

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Why Chalmers’ summit must chew on Labor’s spending binge

It’s always easier to feed the beast than to put it on a diet. Nevertheless, history shows that fiscal repair is possible through strong leadership...

12.08.2025 6

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Netanyahu’s government has brought Palestinian recognition upon Israel

The hard line taken by Benjamin Netanyahu has left Western governments with few alternatives and helped make the case for Palestinian recognition for...

11.08.2025 3

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Banks’ new brooms signal cultural shift in corporate Australia

The conversations at Westpac and ANZ about boosting productivity could become an increasingly common part of the new culture in corporate Australia.

10.08.2025 20

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The real threat to workers comes from bad AI policy not AI itself

AI is undeniably reshaping how creative works are produced. Policymakers should be open to reforming Australia’s decades-old copyright regime so...

08.08.2025 3

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Super lending for corporate debt part of Chalmers’ productivity challenge

Tapping the super funds’ deep pools of capital to unlock business investment and unleash productivity growth is an idea whose time may have come.

07.08.2025 3

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Single touch approval a no-brainer for Labor’s productivity roundtable

The summit on Australia’s productivity challenge is surely an opportunity for the government to announce it will deliver an environmental approval...

06.08.2025 5

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Labor’s bailouts for globally competitive smelters a contradiction

The problem with governments picking winners is that this not only creates potential losers but also makes the economy less efficient and dynamic.

05.08.2025 5

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Jacinta Allan’s WFH laws are a political stunt, not good policy

The Victorian government’s interventionist plan to codify remote work risks adding a new layer of rigidity to the nation’s industrial relations...

04.08.2025 5

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Alarm bells ring about Chalmers’ tax hike stitch-up

Business representatives at the roundtable must be prepared to make the strongest possible case for meaningful structural, incentive-sharpening tax...

03.08.2025 10

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Labor’s home battery subsidy low hanging-fruit in energy transition

The real challenge lies in building the transmission networks needed to integrate large-scale solar and battery projects while keeping a lid on power...

01.08.2025 7

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Productivity Commission delivers half-pregnant company tax plan

The great irony of the recommendations by the economic think tank is that it is recommending a tax rise for big businesses to boost investment.

31.07.2025 4

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Corporate leaders need to speak up like Ryan Stokes

PR-conscious and risk-averse business chiefs need to act like the community leaders they should be by engaging in important public debates about the...

30.07.2025 4

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AI fear and loathing must not rule in Canberra

The best strategy to manage the disruption of the AI era would be to make Australia a better place to work, invest and hire.

29.07.2025 5

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Trite to say, but Israel is losing global PR battle

The tragic pictures of starving children are cutting through and galvanising international opinion regarding recognising the independent state of...

28.07.2025 6

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Brisbane and Hobart stadium challenges go beyond building it so they can come

The moral of Tasmania’s stadium furore should be that unrestrained government spending ultimately makes it difficult to pay for potentially...

27.07.2025 10

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Productivity summit will fail if ideology runs the day

The danger of forming blocs at the roundtable is that it fosters an echo-chamber mentality and is more likely to pit business and unions against each...

25.07.2025 3

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Hubris delivers Macquarie a pay protest

The first strike by shareholders is a wake-up call for the bank’s management, which must restore investor confidence or risk another showdown next...

24.07.2025 6

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Albanese’s New York trip is his trial by fire in diplomacy

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New emission targets mean climate wars may be turning a corner

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Pacific headwinds frame Albanese-Trump sit down

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Why fighting cyber threats is still a human problem in an AI world

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ANZ can’t spin away its blackest day

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Australia can’t adapt its way out of missed targets

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Can Albanese agree where he can, and disagree where he must, with Trump?

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Why the Pacific is becoming Australia’s most expensive battlefield

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Kirk killing is a reckoning for cancel culture at the barrel of a gun

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Jacinta Price deepens Libs’ divide from migrant Australia

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The brutal trade-offs behind fixing intergenerational inequity

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SafeWork halt on UTS job cuts raises questions of regulatory overreach

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Beijing’s show of force sounds alarm in Canberra

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Supply and demand struggles to add up to affordable housing

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Victoria’s tax and WFH systems hold back office inflection point

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Scandals shows super and financial advice ill-prepared for retirement phase

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Labor can’t subsidise its way through energy transition

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American economy will survive Trump’s capitalism shakedown

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Iran has been exposed but Australia’s antisemitism problem runs deeper

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WFH a symptom of Victoria’s post-pandemic trauma

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Labor must make the case for not indexing sophisticated investor test

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Hudson should pay penalty again for Qantas culture fails

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Summit week through the eyes of business

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Summit legacy can’t just be higher taxes

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Diluting performance test could soften superannuation’s core mandate

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PM and treasurer have at least admitted the productivity problem

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Long-term vision for universities hung up on short-term politics

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The week Chalmers can start to craft an economic legacy

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Labor courts business as economic pressures bite

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Could an EV road-user charge pave the way for more tax reform?

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Roundtable can’t be a talkfest with no concrete outcomes

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Why Chalmers’ summit must chew on Labor’s spending binge

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Netanyahu’s government has brought Palestinian recognition upon Israel

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Banks’ new brooms signal cultural shift in corporate Australia

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The real threat to workers comes from bad AI policy not AI itself

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Super lending for corporate debt part of Chalmers’ productivity challenge

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Single touch approval a no-brainer for Labor’s productivity roundtable