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With victory seemingly in sight, Wilson could be forgiven for believing a small-target strategy is enough to carry the Coalition across the line.
As the cracks in the official version widen, it’s difficult to see how Cricket Australia can keep playing a straight bat to growing calls for an...
The failure by Snowy Hydro and the federal government to conduct proper due diligence symbolises Australia’s increasingly chequered infrastructure...
Time will tell whether One Nation’s grievance-based appeal remains an existential threat to the Liberal and National parties.
The Labor government should take stock as it confronts a declining primary vote, higher inflation and community backlash to AI data centres.
There was always a risk that encouraging board members to be candid in their views would send mixed messages
The company’s challenge is to find profitable and compelling ways to incorporate the technology into its products to attract users.
Unless the treasurer and the expenditure review committee get serious about real savings in the MYEFO, the central bank could be forced to raise rates...
One Nation has thrived by railing against the “uniparty”, but trying to resonate with middle-ground voters risks dimming its anti-establishment...
Attempts to deflect the blame for higher prices and interest rates on Donald Trump’s war on Iran have worn thin with the electorate.
The December budget update will test Labor’s appetite to confront its spending addiction and the PM’s willingness to give Chalmers the political...
ASIC’s inquiries could reinforce to the market that transparency in deal marketing are non-negotiable for maintaining public faith in the financial...
While the PM still has time on his side to wait for global inflation pressures to subside, Labor state premiers facing imminent electoral tests...
As funds grapple with the broader challenge of maintaining financial stability, their efforts risk being undermined by Canberra’s constant...
The bank says there is no link between its redundancies and artificial intelligence. But we need more transparency about how roles are changing to...
Weaning voters off the public purse requires honesty about the trade-offs of fiscal repair and demands political courage rarely seen in Canberra.
The troubled renewable energy scheme’s rising costs and delays show that Australia needs political discipline, planning and competence to build...
Data centre operators have vastly overestimated their social licence to build and underestimated the immense leverage ordinary citizens have over land...
Allegations of mistreatment of women should be above all forms of political point-scoring. That includes being weaponised for internal factional...
What happens in Victoria over the next five weeks matters for the nation, both economically and politically.
Labor assumes the Coalition is too diminished and divided to mount a serious comeback. But an ailing economy has turned the Liberal Party into a wild...
Ironically, the Greens’ obstructionism might save the government from crashing on the rushed, poorly thought-out crackdown on investment tax...
We must take a clear-eyed view of the potential fallout if the technology fails to live up to the hype, or is knocked off course by changing market...
Australia needs to maintain supplies of legacy fuels while developing new sources of power to shore up the nation’s energy security.
It is significant that a second state government is now considering university amalgamations to engineer consolidation of the sector.
The Coalition will need to level with Victorians about the deeper budget cuts required and seek the election mandate needed to repair Victoria’s...
The institutional failure to restore low, stable prices and ease pressure on rates has come back to bite both the government and the RBA over the...
Investors’ data centre FOMO has clearly cooled, replaced by hesitancy to finance the huge capex costs of massive hardware fit-out required to train...
The event falling flat is also very much another sign of wavering global support for concerted international action to achieve a carbon-neutral world...
Angus Taylor has gone big on headline cuts to try to play catch-up with One Nation while promising to do this in what he says is an economically smart...
There may be a legitimate argument that innocent KPMG Australia partners should not be financially squeezed for misdeeds they had no part in or...
Our latest poll shows that fewer people are buying the idea that more of the same from Labor will make a difference to key economic issues.
Allowing the tech giants to self-police the most consequential technology of our era requires blind trust that they will exercise fair judgment over...
All things being equal, Labor messing up on the economy plays right into the Coalition’s traditional strength as a superior economic manager.
Private credit’s golden era was built on cheap money, soaring property values and abundant liquidity. That safety net has evaporated
Tuesday’s unanimous decision by the Reserve Bank to lift the cash rate for the fourth time this year confirms the double failure on interest rates...
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...