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Liu Jinsong may find that he has a lot more disagreeing to do than his predecessor, Xiao Qian.
Despite Trump bending the rule book, co-hosting the event has also been a successful PR exercise in an era where global anti-Americanism is rising.
The One Nation leader’s gallivanting in Sicily matters because she built her appeal railing against an establishment that had forgotten ordinary...
We’re unlikely to compete with the US and China on frontier models. But if the world really goes south, we would benefit from building and training...
The components that go into an AI factory, and where they are made, matter. That is the difference between building an AI industry and merely hosting...
Rather than shoring up Australian prosperity, politicians have squabbled over how to redistribute it.
The Liberal Party should show it is serious about attracting younger voters by pledging to unwind its disastrous Job-Ready Graduates scheme.
The technology aggregates what has already been created. It can’t leap beyond the material it has been given to wow film and tv audiences.
A new era of industrial strife looms large due to the Albanese government’s IR shake-up, which primarily serves the institutional interests of...
What has happened to the old principle of government that required you to park business interests – and fill out disclosure forms?
Government policy and unnecessary industrial action risk ruining the winning formula that has worked so well for everyone
Drawing on a painful childhood memory, a university chancellor calls out Australia’s collective failure of moral clarity and leadership after...
We deserve a genuine alternative, but what the opposition leader is serving up is simply a promise to manage the Leviathan a little more politely.
In the face of online misinformation and scaremongering about a “jobs apocalypse”, the PM is showing political intelligence taking preemptive action.
Much of the action in determining Labor’s position will be on the ALP National Conference floor next week.
Behaviour on campuses needs to change. Universities must be safe places for Jewish Australians,
As NSW Premier Chris Minns has given into public sector unions on wages, it’s no wonder there is less money for case workers to identify more...
The prescription is not to cut Sukhinder Singh Cassidy’s pay loose from the price. It is to reload her exposure to it – properly, and with...
The strength of the super system will now be judged by how effectively it ensures that retirees have a sustainable, reliable stream of earnings to...
Australian fixed income is on fire, and without any meaningful intervention. So when should we consider meddling with our capital markets?
The competition watchdog has pursued the grocers for years, perpetuating a political narrative that the companies are greedy and ripping off...
After PwC and KPMG, the question is no longer whether structural separation is too radical. It is whether another round of behavioural regulation is...
There is a big list of tax reforms Australia needs to tackle, including company tax, pricing natural resource extraction and dealing with the...
Let’s not relitigate the capital gains tax and trusts debacle. But we could use a good dose of firm masterly inactivity right now.
What the ramping up of the fighting again really demonstrates is that Trump lacks an effective strategy for ending the conflict in the Middle East.
If the royal commission treats antisemitism as a content moderation problem, it will fail to overcome the much deeper social failure antisemitism...
Conservative investing might have appeared dead during the past decade, but history warns that doubling down on growth could be a costly mistake.
Having achieved pre-eminence in Eurasia, Beijing is now free to project power globally, which is what it is doing. Australia can expect more of this...
The threats of mortgage pricing wars kicking off and business loan losses spiking come as volatile oil prices, slower growth and higher rates bite.
Policymakers have spent too long mistaking a larger economy for a more prosperous one and evaded the more difficult and consequential challenge of...
Altering the risk-reward equation will inevitably affect investors’ decisions about backing Australian startups.
Two companies operate in the same industry, facing similarly tough conditions. Yet even with the same auditor they’ve come up with totally different...
China’s missile test won’t be the last. Australia should get used to living in a more heavily militarised Asia.
Had Xi Jinping held Thursday’s rally, nobody would hesitate over what to call it: a political rally for a foreign power, held on Australian soil,...
Would our reaction be the same if a female Labor MP laughed that the attractive Socceroos are easy to watch?
It’s hard to fathom what political or public value Anthony Albanese thinks he stands to gain by playing shallow parlour games on air.
His company, which once managed $14 billion, is being ravaged by underperformance and is also dealing with high staff turnover and external forces.
This is the true significance of the ballistic missile test. One slice at a time, Beijing seeks to redraw the map of what it can do in the region.
That might be good or bad news depending on your perspective. Either way, blame Canberra’s catastrophic budget and the Reserve Bank of Australia’s...
Liberal-minded folks have failed. We got so obsessed with presiding over the match that we came to see ourselves more as referees than as players on...
UniSuper’s John Pearce is rare in his willingness to sit back and watch the Firmus bandwagon roll past. His reticence shows courage and...
The “good” optics of domestic politicians eagerly courting Modi belie the harder realities of the India-Australia strategic and economic relationship.
The contest for the hearts and minds of a new Howard battler generation could be fought in the schools hardest hit by the government’s tax changes.
I might be fined for not telling the government what I earned last year. An AI firm can quietly get the nod for a gas power plant without so much as a...
Are we taking the warning signs seriously enough? Are we doing enough to protect Jewish life? Could history repeat itself?
In India as in Australia, the challenge is how best to balance democracy, citizenship, constitutional governance and minority rights to forge a...
Manufacturers should be careful what they wish for. Artificially flooding the market with cheap gas would ultimately leave them paying higher prices.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has all the permission he needs to shed his previous green credentials in the name of pragmatic statecraft.
Unless Labor finally gets serious about pro-productivity policies, its flawed stewardship of the economy will continue to exacerbate the grievances of...
It’s ironic that Trump, who railed against the prospect of Biden regulating AI through some kind of favourite-playing licensing regime, has done...