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Labor should belatedly commit to demand-side budget discipline and the supply-side pro-productivity agenda needed to help the RBA finally get...
To truly prepare the nation to withstand all the possible sources of instability, the government’s priority should be to control the known...
For all the pomp, pageantry and claims of stronger ties, the two nations’ deeper foreign policy divides remain largely unaddressed.
The breach lays bare our brittle IT defences and how Australia’s national security is paying the price of foreign tech giants’ trial-and-error...
The PM wins easy praise for appearing to tackle the dark side of the internet while delivering a draft bill that is either defunct or promoting...
The shakeout in the $200 billion ‘shadow banking’ sector goes far beyond the cyclical headwinds of the property downturn.
It is reasonable for Australia to request early-stage access, when models are still in the testing phase, to guard against AI models running amok.
Boosting Australia’s stagnant productivity as a matter of urgency is far more important than making the IRG modelling add up.
For too long, the road to AI riches has been paved by pirated content. Forcing big tech to account for the costs on creators is necessary.
The government should not just mechanically limit temporary migration, but retarget the program to bring in the most needed and most qualified...
If Australian companies can borrow more cheaply from Chinese lenders, there is a case for being realistic about the benefits – while managing the...
The stakes for the great power competition may be too high to slow down artificial intelligence development, strange as this may sound, given the...
Copying Canada’s approach suggests the once-fringe party’s proposals aren’t necessarily extreme and that some recalibration of migration...
Criticising Pauline Hanson risks generating more sympathy for her. But there can be no pandering to populism when fundamental legal and military...
Lack of budget discipline will compromise our ability to weather the uncertain economic implications of the global bond storm now under way.
If the ubiquity of global sports encourages Australians youngsters to look overseas for professional sporting careers, the AFL and NRL may find...
The latest PISA results suggest some basic building blocks of good school practice have gone missing in Australia.
The key long-term question is what impact the tax changes from budget night have on the economics of the housing market.
The perception is that the government underestimated the impact of its disruption of the housing market.
The government should be taking all reasonable steps to refocus a more politically sustainable program on bringing in the most qualified migrants.
Whether the exemption regime proves truly effective will depend on whether small businesses can avoid the shell game of paying one tax to avoid double...
Rather than shoot the media messenger, the legal profession should meaningfully address the obvious flaws in the accreditation system for joining its...
The reasons why affordable housing is prohibitively expensive to build point to the nation’s wider policy problems.
Despite the obvious managerial problems at Airservices Australia, ultimate responsibility lies with the federal minister in charge, Catherine King.
More damaging misconduct allegations engulfing the scandal-plagued business mean it’s unlikely to regain its gaming licence in the near future.
The PM is right that a One Nation government would likely mean Trump-style chaos. But Labor’s seemingly chaotic management of immigration is not...
The scale of the problem was encapsulated by another Sydney developer calling it “the biggest housing disaster story Sydney has ever seen”.
It’s a great shame that one of the country’s more accomplished leaders feels he has to pander to parochialism rather than properly debate a...
The new premier’s claim to respect other people’s money can’t be taken seriously in light of his decision to continue with the multi-billion...
Pushing against Labor’s big-government model, the Business Council of Australia is turing to voters to drive reform.
The Master Builders proposal for a priority migration pathway for construction apprentices is a way to target the migration program to fill genuine...
Ending a survey that helps shape economic modelling and informs decisions about the trajectory of interest rates is not in the national interest.
Returning to low debt feels like a pipe dream when politicians lack both the appetite for austerity and the honesty to level with voters about the...
The issue isn’t what Sam Mostyn said, it is whether she should have spoken out about the scandal in the first place
If it’s permissible for super funds to give product advice, despite the potential conflicts of interest, why should heavily regulated and...
The institutions are more likely to fulfil their core educational mission not by further regulation, but by recruiting talented, committed and...
While unions decry AI, the technology could paradoxically help them in their crusade to re-regulate Australian workplaces by emboldening workers to...
The big supermarkets are considering rolling out facial recognition technology across their store networks. In a perfect world they would not have to.
KPMG’s executive failures are as concerning as the moral bankruptcy of the law firms representing the auditor.
It is easy to promise regional jobs when you’re unlikely to be in government in 10 years’ time to take the blame if the rescue package fails.
New research underscores the worth of the government’s belated move to fix the fundamental design problems at the heart of the NDIS’s unaffordable...
It’s difficult to imagine a super fund’s financial advice encouraging people to invest in a different fund or financial product.
Looming coal plant retirements and sluggish green infrastructure rollouts leave energy reliability hanging in the balance before polls open in...
Instead of a plan to achieve lower, simpler, more competitive taxes, the focus is on how business avoids the fallout of Labor’s bigger taxing, more...
Neither the AFL nor NRL fronted the Senate inquiry, which was a telling snub for codes that profit so heavily from the industry.
Paying a finite price to break a bad contract today is far less burdensome than saddling taxpayers with a potential $200 billion debt legacy for...
The inquiry revealing how importing conflictts from overseas is fracturing Australia’s social cohesion. It must now find a solution.
The Australian government should stop playing defence against One Nation and be willing to level with voters about the trade-offs of a lower migration...
Unlike the lengthy process of finalising the bargaining incentive, ideally Labor will move as fast as possible to establish ground rules for the AI...
Anthony Albanese’s crude joke towards the leader of a key ally is not just poor behaviour, but also damages the national interest.