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Jennifer Hewett

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Inflation risk crashes into political risk

Market tantrums and the fall in the Australian dollar in response to the US Fed show that next year is likely to be even more volatile.

19.12.2024 7

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Jennifer Hewett

Budget update sounds a clear warning

Jim Chalmers is good at relaxed rhetoric about the economy. The mid-year figures are much tougher to explain.

18.12.2024 6

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Jennifer Hewett

Critical minerals manufacturing dream tempered by harsh reality

Falling prices mean Australia’s ambitions to develop the industry and downstream processing are on pause. Is this a waiting game, or is it all over?

17.12.2024 3

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Jennifer Hewett

Nuclear play snares energy industry in political pincers

Peter Dutton is betting big on nuclear power. Labor labels this economic insanity. And the public won’t believe either party’s estimates of what...

16.12.2024 10

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Jennifer Hewett

Energy efforts run into reality

The risk of power blackouts is real and rising this summer – along with the costs of frantically trying to avoid that happening,

28.11.2024 9

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Jennifer Hewett

Why interest rates won’t come down

Forget the headline number. The latest inflation figures are not good news for a government trying to sell its economic credentials.

27.11.2024 7

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Jennifer Hewett

Trump’s tariff war won’t spare America’s allies

Donald Trump is promising 25 per cent tariffs on supposedly close allies like Canada and Mexico as well as China. Where does that leave Australia?

26.11.2024 5

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Jennifer Hewett

Labor struggles down the last stretch

The Albanese government’s numbers don’t add up for voters as the election looms.

25.11.2024 7

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Jennifer Hewett

Chalmers sells intervention as economic salve

The US may have a different culture, but its politics still provide a recent lesson in the electoral risks of rural voters feeling ignored by...

21.11.2024 7

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Jennifer Hewett

Trump picks put Australia in the crossfire with China

The frenzy around a reinvigorated Republican administration can only make the voter ride much bumpier for everyone, Anthony Albanese included.

20.11.2024 5

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Jennifer Hewett

Foreign students row is political kryptonite

The government accuses Peter Dutton of hypocrisy for rejecting its foreign student caps, but the Opposition Leader is not about to do Labor any...

19.11.2024 8

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Jennifer Hewett

Liontown survived the lithium carnage, but can it handle Donald Trump?

After taking a wild ride in lithium over the past year, Liontown Resources thinks it can also adapt to whatever the Trump administration produces.

14.11.2024 9

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Jennifer Hewett

Musk rings alarm bells for business of government

Why the appointment of the world’s richest man to a cost-cutting role in the Trumpiverse challenges Labor’s approach to government in Australia.

14.11.2024 10

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Jennifer Hewett

Trump’s foreign policy agenda a high-stakes guessing game

Donald Trump’s presidency is about to show up the contradictions in Australia’s defence spending and its domestic economy.

12.11.2024 9

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Jennifer Hewett

Transurban tolls hit NSW roadblock

Transurban and the NSW government are at loggerheads over how to reduce the long-term costs to taxpayers and motorists from Sydney’s sprawling toll...

11.11.2024 9

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Jennifer Hewett

Trump turns the tables on identity politics

Donald Trump attacked the Democrats for being too progressive and woke on cultural issues. Many Americans agreed with that general theme, if not...

08.11.2024 20

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Jennifer Hewett

Kamala Harris turns the page on herself

Her gracious concession speech demonstrated the practical problems with her campaign and where the Democrats failed.

07.11.2024 10

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Jennifer Hewett

Trump’s stunning rebuff of his critics

Donald Trump’s return to the White House means the return of an unpredictable president with big plans to Make America Great Again – and fewer...

06.11.2024 10

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Jennifer Hewett

Trump claims election is being stolen again

The former president is priming his supporters to claim another election steal if he doesn’t win big.

05.11.2024 10

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Jennifer Hewett

How the US has a healthy economy, unhealthy politics

America’s economy remains robust despite the sickness infecting its politics. But Donald Trump still says emergency economic surgery is needed.

31.10.2024 10

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Jennifer Hewett

Harris reminds voters of Trump’s role in insurrection

Kamala Harris reminds voters of Donald Trump’s role in the January 6 insurrection. But a clumsy line from President Joe Biden derailed her appeal...

30.10.2024 10

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Jennifer Hewett

Biden made a historic apology to Native Americans. Few noticed

The US approach to Indigenous concerns and rights and history is very different to Australia’s.

29.10.2024 10

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Jennifer Hewett

Trump sells the dream while Harris warns of nightmare

Donald Trump can’t win over a staunch liberal New York City, but he used a rally at Madison Square Garden to flaunt his claim to own America’s...

28.10.2024 9

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Jennifer Hewett

Democrats fear nightmare of Trump win

To the frustration and alarm of Democrats, Kamala Harris is yet to “close the deal” to prevent a return of Donald Trump as US president. Why is...

24.10.2024 8

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Jennifer Hewett

Australia fails on inflation as US wins on growth

The IMF has reinforced America’s economic exceptionalism despite the poisonous politics on spectacular show. Australia is exceptional for another...

23.10.2024 4

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Jennifer Hewett

Coalition says king coal to stay on the throne

The Coalition’s nuclear policy gets most of the attention, but the future of coal will have a starring role in the continuing climate wars.

22.10.2024 7

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Jennifer Hewett

Gas shows the way to more renewables

There’s increasing focus on the crucial role of gas to support the energy transition. But bankers and politicians are yet to get the message.

21.10.2024 9

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Jennifer Hewett

Gas ignites fight over energy future

Energy Minister Chris Bowen insists there is no reason to underwrite gas projects, but the Coalition and some experts say the technology is essential.

16.10.2024 6

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Jennifer Hewett

Why Democrats are nervous about Harris campaign

Behind all the US campaign razzmatazz, there is apprehension at the seemingly stalled momentum of the vice president’s reinvention to become their...

15.10.2024 5

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Jennifer Hewett

Why there’s no free lunch in government

The Albanese government is still struggling to break out of a post-Voice gloom, with new policies failing to stop the lingering sense of drift...

14.10.2024 5

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Jennifer Hewett

Albanese spots a bargain bagging Coles and Woolies

The government needs a political scapegoat to blame for cost-of-living pressures and inflation. The big supermarkets are reliable targets.

10.10.2024 10

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Jennifer Hewett

Why Kamala Harris is not playing up her gender

Unlike Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate does not intend to attract votes for the ground-breaking achievement of becoming the first female US...

09.10.2024 10

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Jennifer Hewett

Why Australian miners are feeling anxious

The market and the miners were primed for good news from Beijing but they didn’t get it. Now it’s back to basics – or bids like Rio Tinto’s...

08.10.2024 7

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Jennifer Hewett

Netanyahu’s fight to be tested in a dangerous world

The risk of greater conflagration in the Middle East is keeping the world on edge, and Australia is no exception.

08.10.2024 20

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Jennifer Hewett

Australia’s politics of protest is on full display

The country might be well out of target range in the Middle East but its suddenly fragile social fabric is being severely tested.

03.10.2024 4

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Jennifer Hewett

No more weird: Vance remakes the Trump campaign record

J.D. Vance wanted to come across as a nice guy while making Donald Trump’s policies sound sensible. The real nice guy, Tim Walz, tried to challenge...

02.10.2024 6

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Jennifer Hewett

Where middle Australia meets the Middle East

Israel’s push into Lebanon ensures a greater fraying of any complacency about this country’s claims to enjoy enduring social cohesion over...

01.10.2024 5

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Jennifer Hewett

Why budget surplus is up, up, up

Jim Chalmers is claiming credit for delivering two budget surpluses in a row. He’s less keen to explain how much the high level of income tax...

30.09.2024 4

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Jennifer Hewett

Labor’s smoke and mirrors on housing

Jim Chalmers and Anthony Albanese face much tougher questions about their economic agenda than the confusion about negative gearing and capital gains...

26.09.2024 10

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Jennifer Hewett

Why Labor seems to be flirting with housing tax breaks again

The real story is that the government is desperately looking for a way out of the political dead end that has stalled any momentum in its drive to an...

25.09.2024 5

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Jennifer Hewett

Why there will be no relief on rates

Jim Chalmers claims “welcome and encouraging progress” in the fight against inflation. The Reserve Bank disagrees, writes Jennifer Hewett.

25.09.2024 10

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Jennifer Hewett

Coles and Woolworths score own goal on dodgy discounts

The big supermarket chains have already lost the public relations war over the ACCC’s allegations of fake discounts. What’s the next move?

23.09.2024 6

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Jennifer Hewett

Electric vehicles hit consumer speed bumps

Energy minister Chris Bowen doesn’t think hybrids offer a real advance in the transition to electric cars. Drivers disagree, and the road to a pure...

19.09.2024 8

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Jennifer Hewett

Labor says CFMEU situation is under control. But look on the streets

The CFMEU rallies are the obvious signs of turmoil behind the scenes as a government-appointed administrator struggles to deal with union threats.

18.09.2024 10

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Jennifer Hewett

Why business is prepared to headbutt Albanese

The Albanese government is under siege from a business community alienated from Canberra and dismayed by the lack of an economic agenda to drive...

17.09.2024 6

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Jennifer Hewett

The EPA is a dead end for Labor

The Coalition will almost certainly not agree to pass the bill next week, even if there are further negotiations and minor concessions from Labor.

12.09.2024 5

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Jennifer Hewett

Why Australia’s miners are so alarmed by Albanese

The powerhouse industry is aghast at the government’s policies on industrial relations and environmental changes and has broken diplomatic cover to...

10.09.2024 10

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Jennifer Hewett

Build, baby, build. The great Australian nightmare

The housing crisis has been years in the making. Clare O’Neil only has months to persuade Australians the federal government is actually doing...

09.09.2024 10

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Jennifer Hewett

Government spending plays hero and villain

Jim Chalmers says the weakness of the economy justifies high government spending. He doesn’t want voters to link that with interest rates and...

04.09.2024 8

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Jennifer Hewett

Why the Philippines is the new China flashpoint

Most people have never heard of the Sabina Shoal, but it’s become the latest global testing ground for confrontation with China. Will it trigger...

03.09.2024 8

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Jennifer Hewett

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