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The real leadership test for both sides of politics this Anzac Day is whether they can match remembrance for our military past with readiness for...
If the Dutton team is serious about convincing voters it’s the best party to manage Trumpian uncertainty, it must stop sending mixed messages about...
Future generations will bear the brunt of the major parties wagering the nation’s future for instant political dividends.
In the shifting tides of the Indo-Pacific, the real danger lies not in Indonesia’s dance with others, but in our failure to keep in step.
The president’s instincts on rebalancing the trade deficit with China aren’t wrong, but his methods are constraining the talents that have...
Without serious reforms, we risk cementing a future where younger Australians are trapped in a cycle of inflated prices and growing debt.
A future government will inherit a dog’s breakfast of housing and tax policies and be left to clean up the mess.
Australia confronts a worrying dilemma as the economic conflict between our major alliance partner and our major trade partner ramps up.
Deepening South-East Asian trade ties would prevent an assertive China exploiting the vacuum left by Trump’s unpredictability.
Big super’s governance failures are now piling up coordinated cyberattacks targeted some of the nation’s largest industry funds.
The bourse has set a terrible precedent by being complicit in undermining shareholder democracy.
The complacent who have clipped the ticket during the good times will be exposed during the bad times at great cost to their customers and members.
With the ASX set to slump a further 4 per cent at today’s opening, attitudes towards Trump’s revanchist protectionism are the wild card thrust...
Without a credible plan to steer Australia through mounting risks and uncertainty, the prospect of a majority government now hangs in the balance.
The political class must resist the temptation to be swept up in the parochialism of current events.
The election contest between Labor’s faltering subsided renewables policy and the Coalition’s nationalised nuclear pipedream does not inspire...
The lack of a real election contest over greater workplace flexibility will condemn Australia to lower productivity and leave the nation less...
A 20 per cent investment allowance would be a start. But the focus should be on sharpening the overall international competitiveness of the economy
Policy competition over budget repair to help sharpen the economy’s growth prospects and make everyone better off appears to be beyond Australia’s...
After a lost two and a half decades in Canberra, both major parties are bogged down in the “politics of incrementalism”.
Rather than replicate the Howard government’s innovative tax reform thinking, Dutton has instead lazily copied from the less creditable playbook of...
The pre-election row over the tax cuts is a political distraction from the substantive problems Jim Chalmers’ fourth budget fails to address.
When Australians head to the polls in a few weeks, this budget will have left them none the wiser about how Labor will restore the nation’s lost...
The US president’s hastiness to secure peace overlooks the often laborious work usually required for a long-term, stable and durable solution to a...
The major parties’ unwillingness to differentiate their policy positions explains the decline in the primary vote of both and why a hung parliament...
Instead of talking about big reforms so near to a tight election, both major parties will probably spend the week trading political blows over...
Instead of wagging fingers at the big chains for the economic challenges, politicians must get serious about tackling some of the underlying causes of...
New reports of criminal activity underline how inadequate the measures taken have been to stamp out illegal CFMEU-linked behaviour.
If the Defence Department is to receive more taxpayer money, it should not be treated as a sacred cow.
APRA’s regulatory mission creep is unlikely to help banks and insurers compete more effectively against nimble start-ups and tech giants expanding...
A hung parliament would just exacerbate the populism, opportunism, and polarisation that are already destabilising the political system.
The budget and budget reply will be failures if they do not include a genuine plan for fiscal restraint and do not explain how higher defence spending...
Neither major party has offered a credible path for “growing the pie”, fixing the budget and preparing the nation’s military for a new era of...
The US risks shooting itself in the foot by forcing other countries to comply with Trump’s anti-DEI, America First ideology.
If the president’s actions spark a tit-for-tat global trade war the damage to Australia’s economy could be substantial.
Australia’s leaders simply cannot ignore the possible implications for the US alliance when crafting their public rhetoric about the serving...
The right way forward is a proactive approach to genuine diversity that would rightly reject performative box-ticking.
Both sides of politics are refusing to engage seriously with the “guns versus butter” fiscal challenge Australia now faces.
Organisations should focus on broadening the diversity pool by providing support and development opportunities to women.
The willingness to lead and tell the truth about the energy transition is lacking across the political spectrum.
The foreign minister missed an opportunity to be firm about the challenges from Beijing and the US, and Australia’s defence.
While Trump is sending America in a more productive and competitive direction, Australia is going nowhere fast.
The Summit is an opportunity to drive an important conversation about how we can develop a policy framework that enables Australia to ride out the...
The best outcome for Australia would be if Trump is pursuing a grand China strategy. But we also need to hedge against him cutting deals with tyrants.
The clear and present China threat that sailed so close to home must mobilise the political class to take action.
The proposal to turn nationalised Rex into TWU Airlines is another sign that Labor remains all too open to political interventions in the aviation...
The goal should be a regulatory circle that increases investor confidence and helps legitimise and spur growth of both private equity and private...
Trump’s capricious foreign policy and ambiguous commitment to alliances mean we need to become more self-sufficient in how we safeguard our security
Investors have now passed a harsh judgment on the company’s governance problems.
The concern is that Labor’s new policy abandons the existing targeted approach and would expand eligibility for bulk billing incentives to all...