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The UK now presents as a tribalised tinderbox. The challenges emerging here may not be as serious, but they are also no cause for complacency.
Finding savings in the $52 billion National Disability Insurance Scheme was always going to create losers, attract fierce lobbying and test political...
A widespread backlash against Labor’s expansionary fiscal policies and the rising cost of living has driven aspirational Australians towards minor...
The Albanese government’s messy strategy to ram its tax bill through the Senate will cost it the one asset it can’t afford to lose: voter trust.
A state-directed cartel for iron ore would be a retrograde reversion to the nation’s Fortress Australia protectionist path.
It would be ironic if the fracturing of the electorate and the quirks of the voting system end up saving a bad government in Victoria.
Agentic AI costs are fostering a scarcity mindset within companies, alongside the practice of “tokenomics” as businesses seek to budget, monitor...
The bigger question the misconduct raises is about the probity of the auditing of company accounts that plays a crucial role in maintaining investor...
Our poll suggests the political disruption signalled by One Nation’s rise has spread in response to the budget’s tax changes.
It takes extraordinary political gall for the PM to lecture the public on “entrenched privilege” when a chunk of the political class accesses the...
Sitting atop a $39 billion iron ore fortune and the AFR Rich List, Gina Rinehart is a prime example of a local billionaire who is building a network...
Ironically, while Labor is making it harder for miners to do business, the government is also intervening to financially support mining.
SpaceX’s decision to sell shares in its initial US public offering directly to Australian investors may be a leap forward for the globalisation of...
Credit to Matt Comyn for going where angels (if not Pope Leo’s new encyclical) might fear to tread.
If negotiations to wind down the war with Iran are botched, he risks cementing a legacy not as the president who ended wars, but as the one who...
Consultations to work out anomalies may go some way to adjusting for unintended consequences, yet won’t address the fundamental flaw with the...
The government underestimated just how many young Australians have turned to shares and other assets besides housing as a way to achieve their...
The regulator’s involvement in the ANU leadership saga raises serious concerns about institutional autonomy and government encroachment in...
The transfer of wealth to global AI companies is the kind of generational question the budget might have considered, given what’s at stake for the...
Had Labor run an open, transparent and consultative tax reform process, these issues would have been uncovered before being announced as policy.
The Albanese government risks starving entrepreneurs of the fruits of their labour and society of the very enterprises needed to build our future...
Australia’s last two examples of comprehensive tax reform show that fiscal discipline is an unavoidable precondition for governments lowering taxes.
For the $22.5 billion Liberal tax policy to be credible, real and verifiable savings need to be detailed to show where the necessary fiscal headroom...
Jim Chalmers ignores that the vast majority of the “asset class” have worked their way to wealth through years of disciplined saving and delayed...
Chalmers’ fifth budget may be more ambitious than his previous four. But higher spending and ongoing debt means he is extending the trend of bigger...
American-Sino relations have transformed since the US president’s 2017 visit, turbocharged by a desire for global technological, military and...
It’s a great shame that investors are wondering if McNamee overstayed his welcome at the company his blood, sweat, and tears helped build into a...
It is not in the national interest for Pauline Hanson’s party to become the official opposition peddling policy snakeoil, not real solutions to our...
For members, there’s the danger that retirement savings are being treated as a cheap source of capital for the government’s preferred projects.
Getting the policy settings right will distinguish nations that are architects of the AI revolution from those that are merely tenants.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will use the federal budget to shore up supply chain frailties exposed by Donald Trump’s erratic Middle East strategy.
The most profligate government in Australia wants voters to believe it has belatedly embraced prudent control of the public finances.
Michele Bullock’s public declaration that fiscal policy should align with the RBA’s stance came too late to shape the treasurer’s strategy for...
A maturing relationship with Japan helps maintain the balance of power in the region and is a bulwark for a stable Indo-Pacific.
We are about to find out if our stewards of monetary and fiscal policy are willing to administer the interest rate and spending medicine needed to cut...
The vital questions that need answering concern possible failings of the intelligence and security services, and the red flags about the terrorists...
Labor’s belated push to make tech giants pay for journalism ignores the more pressing need to regulate the artificial intelligence revolution.
The best approach to managing the adjustment to the age of artificial intelligence would be for Labor to get the fundamentals of economic management...
The brain drain at the agency is extremely worrying at a time when Australia’s total public debt is soon to pass the $1 trillion mark.
The New Zealand example is a far cry from the secretive way the Albanese government handles the formulation of contentious policies.
Waiting for big military hardware to arrive appears to be preparing to fight the last war, as asymmetric and autonomous weapons revolutionise warfare.
The government is now rightly, if belatedly, seizing the reform opportunity, which hopefully will help return the scheme to something closer to its...
More rigid and fractious labour relations will inevitably make Australia less attractive as a destination for investment.
The travel free-for-all sends exactly the wrong signal to Victorians about what is required to fix the state’s dire budget predicament.
Should Firmus’ float on the ASX proceed, it will be a test of broader market sentiment, and may validate the hype or puncture the bubble around AI...
Should Firmus’s float on the ASX proceed, it will be a test of broader market sentiment, and may either validate the hype or puncture the bubble...
The true test is whether the budget shifts the dial on key policy settings in directions conducive to building a bigger, faster-growing and more...
The execution challenge is to get the full bang for the buck by implementing the strategic review on time and on budget.
The plan to impose a retrospective tax on foreign investors is a politically opportunistic attempt to bail out the budget that sets a dangerous...
The nation must reassert, as a social norm, the expectation that migrants leave ancient hatreds at the border and don’t import such divisions into...
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