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Here are some travel hacks to fly high like a politician

Here are some travel hacks to fly high like a politician

Sure, travel hacking isn’t free, and it isn’t as easy as taking gifts from Qantas, but it’s more dignified.

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Josh Szeps

Hayne inquiry’s most shocking lawyer walks into a political storm

Hayne inquiry’s most shocking lawyer walks into a political storm

Rowena Orr should be a no-brainer for the Victorian courts’ top job. But with an election looming, politicians are eyeing up the courts as a...

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Janek Drevikovsky

Inflation over jobs: why the RBA walked away from the ‘narrow path’

Inflation over jobs: why the RBA walked away from the ‘narrow path’

RBA governor Michele Bullock is putting Australia on notice that fighting persistent inflation is now the priority, even at the cost of employment.

yesterday 10

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John Kehoe

The AI boom can’t be built on stolen content

The AI boom can’t be built on stolen content

For too long, the road to AI riches has been paved by pirated content. Forcing big tech to account for the costs on creators is necessary.

yesterday 10

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The Afr View

Even a $50b tech float can’t save Australia’s vanishing sharemarket

Even a $50b tech float can’t save Australia’s vanishing sharemarket

Firmus is heading towards the ASX in the biggest float in a generation, and yet a massive wave of M&A is quickly running down options for equities...

yesterday 10

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Joyce Moullakis

Liberal Party’s fall was about the C-word

Liberal Party’s fall was about the C-word

Look deeper than the personality clashes and hatreds, and the Coalition’s civil war was a fundamental contest between the progressive and...

yesterday 10

Financial Review

Alex McDermott

Kevin Warsh the hyper-hawk has only just begun

Kevin Warsh the hyper-hawk has only just begun

A conventional rate cycle would be brutal for equities and private markets. Yet investors are behaving as though the first Fed hike in three years is...

yesterday 10

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Christopher Joye

How AI is creating new risks for the big four accounting firms

How AI is creating new risks for the big four accounting firms

The technology, which is being adopted rapidly by firms such as KPMG and EY, still needs humans in the loop.

yesterday 10

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John Gapper

Your AI adoption is failing because employees are afraid

Your AI adoption is failing because employees are afraid

Employees aren’t resisting AI because they lack the technical skills to use it – they’re resisting because they feel threatened by it.

yesterday 10

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Errol Amerasekera

Locals tell why my hometown bush seat will vote One Nation

Locals tell why my hometown bush seat will vote One Nation

The declaration often heard in focus groups echoes back: it is time to blow the place up. Goulburn seems to have decided that Pauline Hanson is the...

yesterday 10

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Pru Goward

Labor has finally poked its head out of the sand on migration

Labor has finally poked its head out of the sand on migration

Polls have warned about this since support for One Nation began to rise. The government has spent almost its entire time in power hoping it would go...

yesterday 10

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Phillip Coorey

Immigration cuts add to economic headwinds for Labor

Immigration cuts add to economic headwinds for Labor

The government should not just mechanically limit temporary migration, but retarget the program to bring in the most needed and most qualified...

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The Afr View

Business bleating about migration cuts is turning voters to One Nation

Business bleating about migration cuts is turning voters to One Nation

A mass migration program in itself does nothing to lift productivity, which is the only variable that can improve living standards over the long run.

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Daniel Wild

No nuclear energy means no sovereign Australian AI

No nuclear energy means no sovereign Australian AI

Chris Bowen’s strict renewable power mandates threaten to lock Australian start-ups out of the sector while deep-pocketed US firms dominate.

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Inshu Misra

Labor created asylum seeker problem undermining the immigration system

Labor created asylum seeker problem undermining the immigration system

Those seeking refuge in Australia used to have 45 days to make a claim. The Rudd government changed the rules, leading to a deluge of applications and...

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Philip Ruddock

China came to the rescue after Nepal mudslide

China came to the rescue after Nepal mudslide

Climate-induced disasters know no borders. China hopes to enhance cooperation with Australia and others on disaster preparedness and climate response.

previous day 10

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Liu Jinsong

Tech leaders’ safety alert our last chance to reset AI trajectory

Tech leaders’ safety alert our last chance to reset AI trajectory

The warnings are clear, and so is the lesson: Australia must not wait any longer to regulate this all-powerful new technology.

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Melissa Donnelly

Beware Chinese loans with strings attached

Beware Chinese loans with strings attached

If Australian companies can borrow more cheaply from Chinese lenders, there is a case for being realistic about the benefits – while managing the...

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The Afr View

Can a changed China agree to an AI pause with America?

Can a changed China agree to an AI pause with America?

The stakes for the great power competition may be too high to slow down artificial intelligence development, strange as this may sound, given the...

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The Afr View

The four horsemen of the apocalypse are coming for the global economy

The four horsemen of the apocalypse are coming for the global economy

Fuel price spikes and trade disruption from the wars in Iran and Ukraine are converging with extreme weather and overinvestment in AI to paint a bleak...

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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Men’s misogyny online pushes women out of politics

Men’s misogyny online pushes women out of politics

The current push for a digital duty of care could mean the difference between women staying in the public sphere or walking away.

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Licia Heath

Chalmers hits reverse on CGT but still can’t find economic accelerator

Chalmers hits reverse on CGT but still can’t find economic accelerator

Since the budget, the treasurer has been doing the bare minimum to provide a sound bite aimed at silencing legitimate criticism.

wednesday 20

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Richard Holden

Sydney Sweeney just pulled off the oldest trick in advertising

Sydney Sweeney just pulled off the oldest trick in advertising

The Hollywood actress is under fire from female athletes for a vulgar sports betting campaign, with one describing it as a “kick in the face”.

15.09.2026 10

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Fiona Tomas

US marines and Aussie Diggers are joining up to deter Beijing

US marines and Aussie Diggers are joining up to deter Beijing

As China expands its reach in the Pacific, the American-Australian alliance is moving from mateship to modernisation of our joint forces’ capacity.

15.09.2026 10

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Paul Gillikin

China and USA will not slow the race. We must regulate AI ourselves

China and USA will not slow the race. We must regulate AI ourselves

Australia cannot pace the frontier on its own, but we can decide what artificial intelligence agents do inside our governments and companies.

15.09.2026 5

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Alastair Macgibbon

Pauline Hanson and Mark Carney are a unity ticket on migration

Pauline Hanson and Mark Carney are a unity ticket on migration

Reducing migration is rapidly becoming a popular and powerful stance for progressive governments, rather than something they reactively treat as...

15.09.2026 4

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Geoff Russ

Trump and Xi would win the Nobel Peace Prize for an AI slowdown

Trump and Xi would win the Nobel Peace Prize for an AI slowdown

Any such agreement just requires getting half a dozen companies in the US and China – those with the resources to be pushing the frontier – to toe...

15.09.2026 10

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Toby Walsh

Australia should mobilise Asian partners to open Strait of Hormuz

Australia should mobilise Asian partners to open Strait of Hormuz

No region has been more affected by the energy supply disruptions caused by the Iran war, but Asia has been mostly absent from efforts to resolve it.

15.09.2026 10

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Anthony Bubalo

Five years on, AUKUS has endured through extraordinary political change

Five years on, AUKUS has endured through extraordinary political change

Successive governments in all three countries have concluded that the nuclear submarine technology partnership serves their national interests.

15.09.2026 10

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Jennifer Parker

One Nation raises stakes for Labor’s migration plan

One Nation raises stakes for Labor’s migration plan

Copying Canada’s approach suggests the once-fringe party’s proposals aren’t necessarily extreme and that some recalibration of migration...

15.09.2026 10

Financial Review

The Afr View

One Nation’s migration cuts add up to a deep recession

One Nation’s migration cuts add up to a deep recession

Cutting migration by 766,000 over three years would damage our economy, hit the budget and weaken our capacity to provide services for Australians.

14.09.2026 10

Financial Review

Andrew McKellar

I served in Afghanistan. Andrew Hastie is a true patriot not a traitor

I served in Afghanistan. Andrew Hastie is a true patriot not a traitor

I am baffled by the descent of some into a place where loyalty to the idea and values of ANZAC are “othered” by the loud, pernicious,...

14.09.2026 20

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Johnny Mercer

Hastie right to fire back against One Nation’s ‘traitor’ troll

Hastie right to fire back against One Nation’s ‘traitor’ troll

Criticising Pauline Hanson risks generating more sympathy for her. But there can be no pandering to populism when fundamental legal and military...

14.09.2026 20

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The Afr View

More heat on Macquarie as rivals claim it has an unfair advantage

More heat on Macquarie as rivals claim it has an unfair advantage

CBA has privately calculated that if Macquarie Bank were to have the same capital framework as CBA, it would have to raise an additional $18 billion...

14.09.2026 20

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Tony Boyd

Border wars: Hanson on the front foot again as major parties dither

Border wars: Hanson on the front foot again as major parties dither

One Nation will again aim to set the agenda, this time with an immigration policy which, while hard line, is not unsophisticated.

14.09.2026 20

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Phillip Coorey

Data centres lack of popular licence is new territory for big tech

Data centres lack of popular licence is new territory for big tech

Global technology giants have used consumer popularity to shield their activities from national governments. Their problem is that the public mood has...

14.09.2026 10

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Matt Rowley

After a century of plenty, we can bend the economic curve again

After a century of plenty, we can bend the economic curve again

Perhaps our biggest collective job is to rebuild optimism: that growth is good, growth is for everyone and growth is possible.

14.09.2026 10

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Chris Bradley

Customers are hitting back as banks recalibrate card reward programs

Customers are hitting back as banks recalibrate card reward programs

It’s the biggest shake-up in the market for more than 20 years, and if current trends persist, big banks are facing hefty declines in credit card...

14.09.2026 20

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Joyce Moullakis

One Nation super plan would open tax trick for high earners

One Nation super plan would open tax trick for high earners

A close look at One Nation’s new superannuation policy reveals how high earners could bounce cash through their fund to score thousands in tax...

13.09.2026 20

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Glen James

Silicon Valley’s massive debt machine takes control of the bond market

Silicon Valley’s massive debt machine takes control of the bond market

For Australia, the irony is that we import the shock without the boom. We account for a sliver of AI capex, yet an open economy pays the world price...

11.09.2026 20

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Christopher Joye

Bond markets exact the revenge of rational economics

Bond markets exact the revenge of rational economics

Lack of budget discipline will compromise our ability to weather the uncertain economic implications of the global bond storm now under way.

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The Afr View

Coalition dances to tune of online right on social media censorship

Coalition dances to tune of online right on social media censorship

Sensible conservatives have warned that unregulated platforms have too much power; the populist right treats restraint on that power as an assault on...

11.09.2026 20

Financial Review

Lidija Ivanovski

Technology shake-up in focus as Macquarie awaits the Greg Ward era

Technology shake-up in focus as Macquarie awaits the Greg Ward era

The former accountant is forensically assessing the structure of key divisions, including whether the group’s tech spend is being deployed...

11.09.2026 30

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Joyce Moullakis

Labor should clean up tobacco tax mess

Labor should clean up tobacco tax mess

The pandemic confirmed that the public health lobby should not be left to determine the policy trade-offs, incentives and costs of seeking to...

11.09.2026 20

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Michael Stutchbury

Millenium Prize solution shows AI adding up is no joke

Millenium Prize solution shows AI adding up is no joke

Artificial intelligence has become remarkably good at mathematics. These advances are part of a wider revolution pushing the boundaries of knowledge.

11.09.2026 20

Financial Review

Rohan Silva

25 years on, these are my enduring memories of being there on 9/11

25 years on, these are my enduring memories of being there on 9/11

As the years go by, and I get older, I think more about the leadership I saw that day and the power of rebuilding.

11.09.2026 20

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Ro Knox

Times have changed, but 9/11 never completely goes away

Times have changed, but 9/11 never completely goes away

With Donald Trump now engaged in another forever war and the rest of us screwed at the bowser, one can’t help thinking that Osama bin Laden got...

11.09.2026 20

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Phillip Coorey

NFL at MCG shows global games gatecrashing Australian sport

NFL at MCG shows global games gatecrashing Australian sport

If the ubiquity of global sports encourages Australians youngsters to look overseas for professional sporting careers, the AFL and NRL may find...

11.09.2026 20

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The Afr View

No amendments can save the ‘Only in Victoria’ WFH legislation

No amendments can save the ‘Only in Victoria’ WFH legislation

Before voting on this Bill, members of the upper house ask whether it makes Victoria a more attractive place to do business, to invest time, and to...

10.09.2026 10

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Sally Curtain

Labor’s digital duty of care privatises political censorship

Labor’s digital duty of care privatises political censorship

Political elites have much to fear from the ‘little-people’ talking among themselves. It is perfectly understandable that the government would...

10.09.2026 20

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Sinclair Davidson