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To borrow an AFL adage that WA Premier Roger Cook will be familiar with, critics should play the ball, not the (wo)man.
A serious government would reckon honestly with the costs of rapid immigration before regulating its downstream consequences.
A NSW judge journeyed far into contested questions of history, politics and international law on which he appears to have had no independent expert...
Pushing against Labor’s big-government model, the Business Council of Australia is turing to voters to drive reform.
If Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh is committed to bringing inflation to target, he will need to slow the growth in asset prices.
Focusing on individual actions ignores the systemic architecture that makes such behaviour not just possible, but entirely rational.
We should not allow fear to overwhelm the facts or stand in the way of an opportunity Australia cannot afford to miss.
Bond markets are taking note of growing government debt, and Australia is entering this higher-risk environment less resilient than it could be.
Before we debate the size of migration, we must ask a deeper question: what do we want our system to achieve for Australia?
The hit horror movie about a man who wishes for more adoration from a young woman, who falls under his spell and provides it, is playing out in...
The Master Builders proposal for a priority migration pathway for construction apprentices is a way to target the migration program to fill genuine...
Despite repeated inquiries, it took nine days after the arrests were widely publicised for the headmaster to respond. It was not enough, and came a...
The bank’s track record on making windfall gains on equity investments is somewhat mixed, but lately Matt Comyn’s bets have been paying off.
Celebrity examples abound, but more ordinary people are following their children into new midlife careers.
The 2018 changes not only reduced the level of fairness in the distribution system, but also increased complexity and reduced transparency.
The continent has the worst of all worlds: none of the influence of a superpower, but all the scrutiny. An uglier place would at least be left to...
Tech platforms should be in no doubt that accessing world-class Australian content requires commercial respect and willingness to negotiate with those...
Rather than blindly defending the school or condemning an entire community, we need to focus on doubling down on conversations about respect and...
Ending a survey that helps shape economic modelling and informs decisions about the trajectory of interest rates is not in the national interest.
Australia is asking tougher questions about the Chinese wealth flowing into its property market, just as Beijing intensifies its own crackdown on...
Law schools, which often attract the most talented and highly motivated students, should be leaders in encouraging respectful disagreement.
Former macro maven Scott Bessent is trying to bend financial markets and his own central bank to his will. History suggests this is a tricky trade.
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...
True social cohesion in Australia requires shared action and choosing uncomfortable curiosity over fear.
Bendigo Bank is grappling with claims that insiders were involved in laundering funds in its network, as other banks fight hard against a scourge in...
Testing of facial recognition by Coles and Woolworths spells trouble for our egalitarian manners and the social trust the market economy depends on.
If tobacco tax cuts were the gold standard for curbing the illicit market, we would expect other countries to adopt them. But they haven’t.
Cultures change when leaders make decisions that certain conduct is incompatible with membership of the organisation – and back those decisions with...
Do not get cast as a representative of your identity. Assert your glorious human messiness. Defy the whole sanctimonious circus.
Without self-imposed discipline, the red numbers will continue, especially as Labor continues to seek and spend money it does not have. And boasting...
The line that there are no ethical billionaires is close to received wisdom now, and I understand the instinct. But look around you.
The issue isn’t what Sam Mostyn said, it is whether she should have spoken out about the scandal in the first place
Many British notables have trod the path from villain to hero. There is room for the pair to start trading access for favourable coverage.
With any luck AI will drag higher education towards a more equitable assessment model, one that rewards critical thinking over traditional artefacts...
If we are serious about keeping insurance affordable, we need to address costs wherever they arise, including those that are allowed to grow in plain...
The federal government’s $1 trillion debt milestone comes as interest rates on government debt hit multi-decade highs in global bond markets.
Data centres are more like a modest-return quarry than a high-value iron ore mine, operating on much lower profit margins and employing fewer people.
The opposition will look at challenges posed by Labor’s disorderly transition pragmatically to deliver secure, reliable and affordable energy for...
If it’s permissible for super funds to give product advice, despite the potential conflicts of interest, why should heavily regulated and...
The academic’s investigators did find real cause for concern, but he was also held to a higher standard than some colleagues.
I hope other ASX boards are brave enough to follow the Cleanaway board’s lead in ignoring external noise and focusing on their core duties and...
The boss of global football is counting his votes as allies desert him, including Europe. But the rest of the world might just keep him in power.
Australians are moving their life savings into SMSFs, but it’s very difficult for anyone to know how they measure up against the other options...
A financial institution that sells products has a responsibility to give its customers good advice on those offerings, tailored to their personal...
Many regard the GST as one of the Howard government’s crowning achievements. It was not, and inflicted a productivity-asphyxiating knot on the...
The institutions are more likely to fulfil their core educational mission not by further regulation, but by recruiting talented, committed and...
There are two reasons to doubt whether cheaper Chinese challengers such as Kimi K3 will catch up to the power of US frontier models such as OpenAI.
Since we spend so much of our lives writing these things, it seems sensible to try to keep the most dire to a minimum.
The Productivity Commission has given politicians the option of pretending to do something big when what they’ve actually done is small.
While unions decry AI, the technology could paradoxically help them in their crusade to re-regulate Australian workplaces by emboldening workers to...
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