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Election campaign leaves defence questions unanswered

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...

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The Coalition has a credibility gap on the budget

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...

22.04.2025 6

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Election promises will leave young Australians bitter

Future generations will bear the brunt of the major parties wagering the nation’s future for instant political dividends.

21.04.2025 3

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Why Canberra can’t afford to ignore Jakarta

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.

16.04.2025 5

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Trump’s trade war is a sledgehammer to America’s tech dominance

The president’s instincts on rebalancing the trade deficit with China aren’t wrong, but his methods are constraining the talents that have...

15.04.2025 20

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The housing crisis isn’t about buyers, it’s about broken supply

Without serious reforms, we risk cementing a future where younger Australians are trapped in a cycle of inflated prices and growing debt.

14.04.2025 4

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The 'whatever it takes' election campaign

A future government will inherit a dog’s breakfast of housing and tax policies and be left to clean up the mess.

13.04.2025 5

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Trump’s pause no relief from great power showdown on trade

Australia confronts a worrying dilemma as the economic conflict between our major alliance partner and our major trade partner ramps up.

11.04.2025 2

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Trump’s economic cold war forces trade pragmatism from Australia

Deepening South-East Asian trade ties would prevent an assertive China exploiting the vacuum left by Trump’s unpredictability.

10.04.2025 3

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No room for super complacency about cyber risk

Big super’s governance failures are now piling up coordinated cyberattacks targeted some of the nation’s largest industry funds.

09.04.2025 10

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ASX’s James Hardie waiver is not in the market’s best interests

The bourse has set a terrible precedent by being complicit in undermining shareholder democracy.

08.04.2025 4

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Trump dump a stiff examination of investment strategies

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.

07.04.2025 4

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Trump’s trade war makes Dutton’s task harder on May 3

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...

06.04.2025 10

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Election campaign sidesteps economic reform

Without a credible plan to steer Australia through mounting risks and uncertainty, the prospect of a majority government now hangs in the balance.

04.04.2025 8

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Trump’s tariffs call for regional foreign policy response

The political class must resist the temptation to be swept up in the parochialism of current events.

04.04.2025 8

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No election road out of Australia’s energy perdition

The election contest between Labor’s faltering subsided renewables policy and the Coalition’s nationalised nuclear pipedream does not inspire...

02.04.2025 9

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A Trump–proof Australia needs productive industrial relations

The lack of a real election contest over greater workplace flexibility will condemn Australia to lower productivity and leave the nation less...

01.04.2025 5

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Boost business investment to restore lost prosperity

A 20 per cent investment allowance would be a start. But the focus should be on sharpening the overall international competitiveness of the economy

31.03.2025 10

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Govern as fiscal conservatives to revive economic growth

Policy competition over budget repair to help sharpen the economy’s growth prospects and make everyone better off appears to be beyond Australia’s...

31.03.2025 9

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Labor and Coalition must seek a mandate for reform

After a lost two and a half decades in Canberra, both major parties are bogged down in the “politics of incrementalism”.

28.03.2025 6

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Dutton losing the political race for lower taxes

Rather than replicate the Howard government’s innovative tax reform thinking, Dutton has instead lazily copied from the less creditable playbook of...

27.03.2025 5

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Three budget problems bigger than the puny tax cuts

The pre-election row over the tax cuts is a political distraction from the substantive problems Jim Chalmers’ fourth budget fails to address.

26.03.2025 9

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Pre-election budget keeps us on a dangerous fiscal trajectory

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...

25.03.2025 6

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For Trump, the strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must

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...

25.03.2025 9

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Why the budget response could be Dutton’s last shot at redemption

The major parties’ unwillingness to differentiate their policy positions explains the decline in the primary vote of both and why a hung parliament...

24.03.2025 5

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Wish list for a budget week that was never meant to be

Instead of talking about big reforms so near to a tight election, both major parties will probably spend the week trading political blows over...

23.03.2025 9

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Supermarket inquiry ends not with a bang but a whimper

Instead of wagging fingers at the big chains for the economic challenges, politicians must get serious about tackling some of the underlying causes of...

21.03.2025 10

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CFMEU is still Building Bad nine months later

New reports of criminal activity underline how inadequate the measures taken have been to stamp out illegal CFMEU-linked behaviour.

20.03.2025 8

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Three questions about higher defence spending

If the Defence Department is to receive more taxpayer money, it should not be treated as a sacred cow.

19.03.2025 8

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Australia must heed turning tide of banking regulations abroad

APRA’s regulatory mission creep is unlikely to help banks and insurers compete more effectively against nimble start-ups and tech giants expanding...

18.03.2025 7

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Appeal to aspiration to avert a minority government

A hung parliament would just exacerbate the populism, opportunism, and polarisation that are already destabilising the political system.

17.03.2025 5

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Australia cannot afford a phoney budget debate next week

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...

16.03.2025 5

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Five years after Covid, Australia is unprepared for next global storm

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...

14.03.2025 5

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White House should stay out of Australian universities

The US risks shooting itself in the foot by forcing other countries to comply with Trump’s anti-DEI, America First ideology.

13.03.2025 5

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Trump’s tariff shock must shake Canberra’s complacency

If the president’s actions spark a tit-for-tat global trade war the damage to Australia’s economy could be substantial.

12.03.2025 6

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Speaking truth to Trump not as easy as Turnbull says

Australia’s leaders simply cannot ignore the possible implications for the US alliance when crafting their public rhetoric about the serving...

11.03.2025 10

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Mullen is on the money on genuine board diversity

The right way forward is a proactive approach to genuine diversity that would rightly reject performative box-ticking.

10.03.2025 4

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Defence spending is election issue Labor and the Coalition are avoiding

Both sides of politics are refusing to engage seriously with the “guns versus butter” fiscal challenge Australia now faces.

09.03.2025 8

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Women need credible pathways to reach C-suites

Organisations should focus on broadening the diversity pool by providing support and development opportunities to women.

07.03.2025 3

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Honesty about wind and gas is best energy transition policy

The willingness to lead and tell the truth about the energy transition is lacking across the political spectrum.

06.03.2025 3

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Wong should have sent a stronger message about China and US uncertainty

The foreign minister missed an opportunity to be firm about the challenges from Beijing and the US, and Australia’s defence.

05.03.2025 2

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Australia must control the controllables to compete with Trump’s America

While Trump is sending America in a more productive and competitive direction, Australia is going nowhere fast.

04.03.2025 7

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The age of uncertainty calls for a new reform era

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...

03.03.2025 2

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Zelensky was right. But he didn’t read the MAGA room

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.

02.03.2025 10

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Chinese warships a wake-up call to step up our maritime security

The clear and present China threat that sailed so close to home must mobilise the political class to take action.

28.02.2025 4

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Labor still lacks real aviation competition policy

The proposal to turn nationalised Rex into TWU Airlines is another sign that Labor remains all too open to political interventions in the aviation...

27.02.2025 7

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Good regulation could be the making of private markets

The goal should be a regulatory circle that increases investor confidence and helps legitimise and spur growth of both private equity and private...

26.02.2025 10

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Trump’s tempest and China’s live-fire means Australia must do more on defence

Trump’s capricious foreign policy and ambiguous commitment to alliances mean we need to become more self-sufficient in how we safeguard our security

25.02.2025 8

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WiseTech is still a prisoner of its founder

Investors have now passed a harsh judgment on the company’s governance problems.

24.02.2025 4

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Labor loses ground and brings on new Mediscare election

The concern is that Labor’s new policy abandons the existing targeted approach and would expand eligibility for bulk billing incentives to all...

24.02.2025 6

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