expand_moreexpand_lessexpand_moreexpand_less
|
 |
 |
Financial Review |
Without setting foot on Taiwan’s shores, China could enforce a blockade similar to the one Tehran has been operating in the Strait of Hormuz.
The question of “what else” can be done carries an implicit assumption that there is no viable alternative. We should not accept that.
The leader of the free world has agreed to negotiations with an Iranian regime that is still standing, even if it’s on piles of rubble and dead...
As time goes on, it has become progressively easier to pass off words and images that might once have been readily recognised as antisemitic as...
The war is acting like an accidental carbon tax that is speeding up the region’s high-stakes turn towards a future driven by renewable energy and...
Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the levy was “an idea whose time has come”, but the government is stuck in the slow lane.
Ensuring the supply of essential goods like fuel, fertiliser and medicines is sensible, but making more things at home will cost consumers, taxpayers...
AI evangelism is spreading throughout C-suites across the country. But for workers, it sounds a lot like Big Brother and a road to redundancy.
The miner has spent four years stewing over the state’s decision to raise coal royalty rates. With a new CEO about to arrive, it’s time to like it...
The uncertain EPBC and the deeply unsophisticated domestic political debate on energy has guaranteed 42 years of Australian oil stays underground.
The tech giant boss believes in the promise of artificial intelligence to lift human welfare, while also warning of the dangers of the powerful new...
The president’s refusal to acknowledge the lack of any coherent US strategy means it’s not just Iranian spokesmen considering him “delusional”.
Making sure there is bitumen to drive on in the future requires applying a road-user charge to EVs to replace the current source of road funding.
Much of the capital needed to fund resilience is domestic, patient and already looking for infrastructure exposure. Superannuation is the obvious...
The prime minister is enabling a treasurer who relentlessly, and it must be said very effectively, whitewashes what the government is actually doing.
Producers’ complaints about unwieldy and costly approvals processes have taken on an extra edge amid worries on domestic shortages and a global LNG...
Governments and central banks are out of policy ammunition to contain the economic fallout from the continuing conflict in the Middle East.
Labor needs to show leadership and set out why a properly run migrant program is in the national interest, rather than resorting to knee-jerk...
US protection for Cuban-Americans wanting to return to their parents’ and grandparents’ homeland to revive its faded appeal can open it in ways...
The Iran conflict has cemented the shift from concerns about sustainability to security of supply.
Anthony Albanese has spent four years in government presiding over a decline in our economic resilience in general and our supply chain resilience in...
As our environment grows more uncertain, pressure on government will grow, and cracks in key parts of our transparency framework will be further...
A year ago, the market fretted that Donald Trump’s tariffs would unmoor inflation expectations. This recent iteration from him seems to have...
A right-wing movement founded on loucheness is making an electorally risky turn towards religion.
The young did what they were told but still face stagnant wages, unaffordable housing and a diminishing sense of achieving normal milestones like...
Imagine buying an investment bank and withholding its debt position from your shareholders. That is actually happening.
The attorney-general and homeland security secretary, “Pam Blondi” and “ICE Barbie” to their critics, learnt the hard way that sycophancy has...
Every major artificial intelligence firm wants our land and grid. We should negotiate for enforceable commitments rather than non-binding memorandums.
Electric cars are smoother, quieter, cleaner, cheaper to run and cheaper to service. And the data shows people are rushing to make the switch.
The resurrection story does not promise that suffering will be avoided. On the contrary, it takes trauma with full seriousness before it speaks of...
Even if the war in Iran ends today, it will take months to restore crude output and years to repair Qatar’s terminal for liquefied natural gas.
Stripping festivals of religious rhetoric out of respect to minority groups denies our cultural heritage. Make this weekend about optimism, not dogma.
The Iranian conflict has precipitated the dissolution of the Five Eyes alliance and Australia’s security guarantees.
Critics tend to reduce Judeo-Christianity to a right-wing slogan arrayed against those associated with multiculturalism, “political correctness”...
What’s worse: spiking inflation and rising interest rates or an economy that is struggling for growth? Both options are likely.
The policy settings for recognising qualifications must be reconfigured to ensure the skilled migration program delivers the right labour market...
Research shows that without alternative payment methods, banning fees merely shifts transaction costs rather than remove them.
The Islamic republic aims to set up a toll booth on the Strait of Hormuz. It may succeed.
It seems the fog of war is being used to rationalise spraying more cash on cost-of-living relief, in alignment with Albanese’s “no one left...
Authoritarian powers are helping each other fight against democratic states – which is more than some first-world allies are doing for each other.
If our signal to a $US380 billion firm is just being stable, Anglophone, and top Claude users, we’re negotiating as a location – not a country...
With oil and gas prices spiking, and likely to remain elevated for some time, the government is well-placed to sell the Petroleum Resources Rent Tax.
Perversely, in Australia’s preferential systems, One Nation will continue to elect Labor governments they do not want until the centre-right lifts...
Health Minister Mark Butler says the scheme is one of the great reforms of the past few decades. Why is it so badly off track – and not just because...
Australia should back Sanae Takaichi’s drive for Indo-Pacific security. It is in our interest to create partnerships with nations that share our...
The knee-jerk reaction is just the start of more inflationary spending and puts Jim Chalmers’ pledged “reform” budget on life support.
During the pandemic there was no time to think – in this crisis, the government has more time. But will the Albanese government use that time wisely?
Most of us are just one event away from resigning, even though we probably should stay put. A new book titled Jolted explains the phenomenon.
Labor’s vote is holding, but the Coalition’s is in free fall: Why you’d still rather be Anthony Albanese than Angus Taylor.
The rise of One Nation among Australia’s working- and middle-class battlers is a story of economic decline and political abandonment by Labor and...
login
who are we?
contact us
qosheapp
