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‘Decolonising’ Anzac Day’s revival

The day offers a welcome counterpoint in an age of fragmenting identity politics in which it is becoming more difficult to find agreement about...

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Musk sets test for social media without boundaries

The sudden row between Australia and Elon Musk is a test of sovereign writ against the biggest companies – but also where government control of...

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Chalmers’ puzzling budget strategy for year ahead

Ideally, the 2024 budget should be slightly contractionary or, at most, neutral to help the Reserve Bank deliver the difficult last mile of...

monday 9

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History shows Australia needs a strong Productivity Commission

The Financial Review helped forge the political and intellectual opposition to the nation’s 20th-century industry protectionism, which was once a...

21.04.2024 10

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A traumatic week, and a need for calmer politics

Murder in Bondi Junction and terrorism in western Sydney have come to a country already demoralised by a cost-of-living crisis. Time for politicians...

19.04.2024 10

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Australia must pay the price for defence and deterrence

A generation of politicians who grew up with a post-Cold War peace dividend are now struggling to switch from welfare to warfare.

18.04.2024 9

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Greens’ supermarket inquiry a Canberra political freak show

Does anyone think the public interest was served by the back and forth over the best metric of Woolworths’ profitability and threatening Brad...

17.04.2024 10

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Forensic judgment proves rape, debunks political cover-up

Justice Lee’s factual pushback at some of the unthinking cultural warfare that has overwhelmed politics and media in recent times has performed a...

16.04.2024 7

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Iran’s light show illuminates the real enemy of Mid East peace

Some Arab nations recognise that Iran is the biggest threat to peace in the Middle East. That is a reality which many in the West are blind too.

15.04.2024 7

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Bondi Junction tragedy brings out the best

The carnage at Bondi Junction Plaza may have lessons for mental health management. But it was also a violent exception that proves the rule of a...

15.04.2024 10

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The week Australia travelled further down the dead-end policy road

At the least, the Treasurer should join with whoever can claim to be an economic rationalist in this government to yell stop, wrong way, go back.

12.04.2024 9

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Competition case for merger shake-up is unconvincing

Giving the ACCC bureaucrats more power might just add more red tape costs for little return. It would be more productive to focus on the obvious...

10.04.2024 5

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What comes after the China boom for Australia?

As China and other advanced economies suffer mutual disillusionment, Australia needs to figure out how it maintains its sweet spot in China’s...

09.04.2024 7

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JAUKUS shows Australia is seeking security in Asia

Ironically, turning AUKUS into JAUKUS would move the pact closer to satisfying the national strategic interest test formulated by its chief Australian...

08.04.2024 5

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No hard data to back more costly supermarket regulation

The review represents a welcome move to contain any potential regulatory overreaction while also playing along with Labor’s political diversion to...

07.04.2024 4

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Israel must listen to its friends, not defy them

Israel has to show that it is better than the terrorists of Hamas. That means being accountable for its own behaviour.

05.04.2024 8

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Tax review to avoid an ‘intergenerational tragedy’

Incremental change is a waste of time. Ken Henry says someone has to grab this thing and get on with it.

04.04.2024 4

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Dutton’s slippery populist slope

The opposition leader should be challenging Labor’s bad ideas, not adding one of his own.

04.04.2024 5

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A first governor-general from the business world

Sam Mostyn’s instinctive promotion of progressive cultural policies will now be cloaked in a vice regal role that should remain above politics and...

03.04.2024 3

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As NATO turns 75, Ukraine war remains a test of wills with a tyrant

Supporters of Ukraine must act quickly, lest the 75th anniversary of the key Western alliance instead marks a collapse of will and capacity in...

02.04.2024 3

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Solar fantasy gives industry policy a bad name

Australia does not have a great record at industry policy. Creating a bucket of government money for solar panels in the midst of a global subsidy war...

01.04.2024 6

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Bank bosses who speak the truth on reform

Tax reform is the cornerstone of rebooting national economic performance because its benefits are so pervasive. Business leaders are rightly taking up...

27.03.2024 3

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We have to get the balance right in banking

Over-prescriptive and risk-averse rules on lending are not just a problem for bankers. They hobble the whole economy.

27.03.2024 7

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Australia’s banks must rise to the challenges of the next decade

The underlying financial strength of the big four got them through a turbulent decade just gone. More competitiveness is needed to get them through...

25.03.2024 2

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A competitive Australia needs more than words

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is now asking the right questions about Australia’s future, even if he needs to find better answers.

24.03.2024 20

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Penny Wong’s week of new foreign policy reality

The foreign minister is repairing relations with China while unsentimentally hedging against its military might. Eruptions from Paul Keating and...

22.03.2024 10

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Labor’s home-grown foreign policy storms ambush Wong

No other Australian foreign minister has had to deal with a former prime minister - and reforming Labor legend no less - publicly second-guessing the...

20.03.2024 3

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Bullock’s nagging fear for ‘the last mile’

The governor’s failure to give firm guidance on interest rates in her press conference reflects genuine uncertainty about the end of the inflation...

19.03.2024 7

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Lee rebukes TWU’s monopoly

The court cases involving Uber and Qantas raised different questions about legalised business and union monopolies.

18.03.2024 3

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Greens’ farming ‘crisis point’ is rubbish

The Greens are using farmers as allies of convenience to pursue their left-wing populist campaign against the supposed price and profit gouging of...

18.03.2024 2

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Review points in the right self-reliant age care direction

Credit to the government for not simply ruling out making better-off Australians with healthy superannuation balances contribute more towards the cost...

17.03.2024 7

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GST system is paying for lost principles

The GST formula was meant to take the politics out of the system. Now we should be asking if the incentives were wrong in the first place.

15.03.2024 5

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Rock star economists are prophets with nothing to say

This week’s sharpest economic analysis came not from foreign left-leaning economists on tour in Australia, but from BlackRock global strategist Wei...

14.03.2024 1

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Congressional horsetrading over AUKUS is not ‘optimal’

While this should not be misinterpreted as proof that AUKUS is dead in water, that the subs deal is once again caught up in how Washington “works”...

13.03.2024 4

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Four-year terms to end short-termism

New Business Council of Australia president Geoff Culbert pushed the idea at The Australian Financial Review Business Summit to “break out of the...

12.03.2024 4

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Australia must not accept a low-growth future

The unambitious Intergenerational Report must not become the benchmark for this country’s growth prospects. Bold structural reform is needed.

11.03.2024 3

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Politics, business must focus on aspiration, growth and security

There has been no major enduring, productivity-enhancing economic reform since the Howard-Costello GST package more than two decades ago.

10.03.2024 7

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Politics and business must focus on aspiration, growth and security

There has been no major enduring, productivity-enhancing economic reform since the Howard-Costello GST package more than two decades ago.

10.03.2024 9

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Joe Biden must rally voters around a rebounding economy

The octogenarian US president went for full relaunch at the State of the Union address, but he has yet to make his strongest card work for him.

08.03.2024 7

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Post-pandemic growth is now the question

Four years on, the government-driven saviour economy in which people feel entitled without having to do much for it is the attitude that must be...

07.03.2024 3

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ASEAN summit a worthwhile investment of Australia’s soft power

But the optics of forging stronger links with the nations of South-East Asia were undercut by the unprecedented and unedifying intervention by Paul...

06.03.2024 7

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Play hardball and make Meta pay fair share for news

Now Facebook’s owner has thrown the ball back into the government’s court and has to be “designated” in the interests of professional...

05.03.2024 3

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ASEAN summit signals Australia’s a trusted partner

Australia has a role to play in promoting “ASEAN centrality” in an open and stable region, and an interest in increasing trade and investment as...

04.03.2024 5

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The Liberals go downmarket after Dunkley

The Coalition should have used the Sunday morning after Dunkley to start talking about an alternative economic narrative that would have broad appeal.

03.03.2024 8

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No productivity revolution coming from the couch

Working from home to get through an emergency is not the same as the concerted drive for growth and productivity Australia desperately needs.

01.03.2024 9

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Philippines partners Australia on peace, stability and success in Asia

President Marcos’s speech is in keeping with the tightening network of Asian nations who are keen to keep the US engaged and are suspicious of...

29.02.2024 7

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Dunkley byelection is about nothing but politics

A lot will be read into the implications of Saturday’s poll because it’s essentially a purely political horse race short on substantial policy...

28.02.2024 3

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Super seeking board seats points to governance issues

Paul Keating’s 80th birthday interview raises the under-discussed issue of the impact of the $3.6 trillion union-influenced superannuation funds on...

27.02.2024 8

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Gender pay gap calls for proper explanation to maximise opportunity

While business is not entirely to blame, there is clearly room for innovative thinking about how corporates can tackle the cultural barriers to women...

26.02.2024 8

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University success starts with fixing school performance first

The Universities Accord social equity aspiration depends on students being ready to study at a higher level after year 12.

25.02.2024 10

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