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Dutton should be ‘comfortable and relaxed’ about flag stance

The opposition leader knows the better path to social cohesion in an increasingly diverse community is to find what Australians have in common.

12.12.2024 3

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Australia’s social media ban is a joke

Media-manufactured moral panics come and go. That so many Labor and Coalition politicians have succumbed to this latest one, so unthinkingly, is...

28.11.2024 9

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Why the Libs can’t do a Trump

The lesson for Peter Dutton is not to copy the Donald – which in an Australian context would be impossible anyway. What he must be, though, is...

14.11.2024 7

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COVID-19 bullies could get away with it again

During the pandemic, few Australians were brave enough to say “stop”. We can hope for a different future, but there’s no sign things will be...

31.10.2024 10

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Charles III will find republicans who missed their best chance

The vibrant republican sentiment of the 1980s has been replaced by a dour, downbeat guilt-ridden version in the 2020s.

15.10.2024 10

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For the Liberals, Israel is a rare moment of cultural unity

Even multicultural societies need some shared values. The Liberals feel confident they are defending them.

03.10.2024 4

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CEOs who spend less time trying to be liked are heard more often

When company bosses spent less time trying to be liked, they got listened to more often.

19.09.2024 10

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The MSO brought this row on itself

Young self-absorbed artists and old complacent arts organisations like the MSO don’t understand that great art is powerful because it transcends...

05.09.2024 10

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Albanese should trust Australians by answering Gaza visa questions

The prime minister must tell us whether he agrees with the ASIO boss and explain why ‘rhetorical’ support for Hamas shouldn’t automatically...

22.08.2024 20

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Albanese should call out the Greens on antisemitism

The PM is correct that “words matter”. So he should stop talking in code about the elevated terror threat.

08.08.2024 10

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If Trump and Vance are ‘populist’, there should be more of it

The “great realignment” of US politics is not just about the reversal of the economic interests the parties speak for.

25.07.2024 20

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New sectarianism has Albanese in a multicultural muddle

A commitment to multiculturalism doesn’t answer why “Muslim Votes Matter” sits so uneasily with Australia’s liberal democracy.

11.07.2024 10

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Nuclear should fire Coalition’s Fightback!

Finding the same combination of politics and principle on other policies might be the start of a strategy to win, not necessarily the next election...

27.06.2024 10

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No truth in claim Dutton needs net zero to win teal seats

When the reality of the energy transition dawns on the Australian public, the Coalition will be able to get away with leaving the Paris Agreement.

13.06.2024 10

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Business has bigger worries than ESG

One explanation for the seeming decline in discussion about ESG is that it’s something that goes in and out of fashion according to economic...

30.05.2024 40

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Australia’s new course is to be managed decline

The budget is our politics writ small: too lacking in confidence and optimism to seek out new growth.

16.05.2024 70

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No safe spaces for Jewish students at universities

Vice chancellors say what’s happening on campuses here is a million miles away from what’s happening in the US. That’s a statement of wishful...

02.05.2024 50

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Higgins ‘cover-up’ no Watergate. It was another ‘Russsiagate’

Journalists won “glittering prizes” for the stories that were misinformation, but there’s no sign of anyone giving back their awards.

18.04.2024 20

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A governor-general from the Chairman’s Lounge

The PM is truer than he knows when he says Sam Mostyn represents modern Australia. It’s a nation of talkers, not doers.

04.04.2024 30

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Loser Victoria shouldn’t be a GST winner

Any federal government that’s serious about reforming Commonwealth-state relations would stop rewarding Victoria’s disastrous financial...

14.03.2024 20

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Dunkley is the Liberal Party’s chance to advance on Morrison

The timing of the former PM’s departure with the byelection is coincidental but symbolic of potentially a new form of politics on the centre-right...

29.02.2024 10

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Dutton needs his own version of Fightback

As the Coalition tries to work out a way forward on tax, the focus should be on how it won some of the big policy debates of the past.

15.02.2024 20

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Tax cuts reveal Albanese is brazen and cynical

After this, the suggestion that now is a good time to start a discussion about the development of a broad agenda for tax reform is naive.

01.02.2024 20

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Enter the Liberal Party, working-class heroes

The Liberals have won over the battlers before. Now they have a new cause in voters’ fears that their children will never be able to afford a home.

18.01.2024 8

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Existential panic at the ivory tower

The Claudine Gay fiasco at Harvard has triggered a US debate about the purpose of higher education that Australia seems determined not to have.

04.01.2024 8

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Why Penny Wong and academic elites are wrong on Gaza

Penny Wong demonstrated the moral corruption of the UN and the opinion of many of its members, and Claudine Gay the intellectual corruption of higher...

14.12.2023 5

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Libs and Labor should put the Greens last over antisemitism

Australia’s elites in business, the media, and our cultural institutions have for too long humoured the Greens. It’s time for that to stop.

07.12.2023 8

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