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Rudd’s successor will need to have more than exceptional credentials. They must also have the “X-factor” that gets them meaningful access to the...
When governments seek to regulate speech, we should be cautious, sceptical and wary of possible overreach that would compromise Australia’s liberal...
It is an upside-down world when Labor, traditionally the working-class party, is using tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer funds to help the...
Instead of rushing to add new laws to an already swollen statute book, we should enforce rigorously and without hesitation the laws already in place.
The challenge is not to add fashionable modules on AI tools, but for education to build judgement and decision-making capabilities, and to...
The CSLR was intended to give basic protection to mum and dad-type investors. It should not be a collectively funded vehicle for removing...
Nationwide protests entering their third week are showing no sign of abating and there are now serious parallels to the lead-up to the 1979...
Has the President’s latest outrageous attack on the Federal Reserve chair signalled the end of a broadly successful monetary policy era?
The US president has long spoken in thuggish terms about chair Jerome Powell and his reluctance to slash interest rates as fast as Trump would like.
While the focus will be on President Donald Trump’s choice to succeed Jerome Powell, there are many other worries for markets to navigate.
Imagine what the government could do if it chose to cut back on some of the 300 taxation expenditures, or even just stopped adding to the number of...
Probing the fixation with Israel must form part of the deliberations of the Bondi royal commission as it seeks out the drivers of the rising tide...
After antisemitic attacks in my electorate, I proposed to introduce stronger hate speech laws addressing vilification. Both major parties declined...
Authors boycotting the event seem unaware the Bondi attack has revealed to mainstream Australia the phenomenon of antisemitism clothed as...
One must question whether Anthony Albanese’s decision to recall parliament to rush these laws through is a lazy diversion to make him look “on...
Literary festivals can and should be edgy, challenging and thought-provoking. But festivals must not platform speech that is hateful and divisive.
The treasurer surely gets an A for diagnosis of the problem. His market for solution is pending. But it’s not looking good so far.
The announcement of a royal commission was necessary and welcome. But this cannot be where things end. We must be clear-eyed about what this moment...
The health minister should proceed with caution and be wary of government interventions that suboptimally shift costs around an inefficient private...
Experts say Dry January is less about permanent abstinence and more about evaluating how alcohol affects our mental performance and emotional...
The imagery echoed long-standing antisemitic tropes just as a multi-faith coalition was scraping together donations to buy advertising space to be...
The United States has realised that leasing military access from Denmark is an incomplete contract fraught with intolerable transaction costs.
English cricketers have enjoyed a beer as long as I can remember, and I’m in no position to criticise them for that. But there is a time and a...
The vast majority of big superannuation fund members and SMSFs will never derive value from the CSLR. Yet, they are disproportionately affected by...
Everything the prime minister and Tony Burke said on Thursday could have, and should have, been said two weeks ago.
Jewish Australians’ disappointment in Anthony Albanese was hard-baked by the time of the Bondi attack. His hope that anger would pass has proven...
The Albanese government’s fate will depend on how the inquiry is conducted, what it finds, its final report and what the government does with...
To drive around England, urban and rural, these days is to see an epidemic of recently closed boozers.
To reduce Iran’s history to conspiracy is inaccurate and insulting. It dismisses the courage of people who have paid an extraordinary price for...
Although the central bank pushed politicians to spend during the pandemic, it has been gun-shy when it comes to calling for them to tighten their...
Landing the $11.6 billion buyout of the logistics giant is just one of the big challenges facing the investment and banking firm in the year ahead.
Anti-Zionism is not about legitimate criticism of Israel, it’s an eliminationist obsession with the legitimacy of the Jewish state.
The royal commission must hold people responsible. This does not necessitate a descent into blame, but it does require clarity about who enabled...