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Is Frydenberg the white knight the Liberals need?

Is Frydenberg the white knight the Liberals need?

Labor assumes the Coalition is too diminished and divided to mount a serious comeback. But an ailing economy has turned the Liberal Party into a wild...

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Trust tax betrays Labor’s forgotten small business voters

Trust tax betrays Labor’s forgotten small business voters

Ironically, the Greens’ obstructionism might save the government from crashing on the rushed, poorly thought-out crackdown on investment tax...

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AirTrunk, Firmus stumbles test investors’ faith in the AI boom

AirTrunk, Firmus stumbles test investors’ faith in the AI boom

We must take a clear-eyed view of the potential fallout if the technology fails to live up to the hype, or is knocked off course by changing market...

14.10.2026 20

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Realism about old and new energy at climate summit

Realism about old and new energy at climate summit

Australia needs to maintain supplies of legacy fuels while developing new sources of power to shore up the nation’s energy security.

14.10.2026 20

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Mergers on higher education agenda as foreign student trade falls

Mergers on higher education agenda as foreign student trade falls

It is significant that a second state government is now considering university amalgamations to engineer consolidation of the sector.

12.10.2026 30

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Wilson yet to pass the campaign or budget test

Wilson yet to pass the campaign or budget test

The Coalition will need to level with Victorians about the deeper budget cuts required and seek the election mandate needed to repair Victoria’s...

12.10.2026 20

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Card surcharge ban shows inflation makes everything harder

Card surcharge ban shows inflation makes everything harder

The institutional failure to restore low, stable prices and ease pressure on rates has come back to bite both the government and the RBA over the...

09.10.2026 20

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Turning tide of investor sentiment becalms Firmus float

Turning tide of investor sentiment becalms Firmus float

Investors’ data centre FOMO has clearly cooled, replaced by hesitancy to finance the huge capex costs of massive hardware fit-out required to train...

09.10.2026 20

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Pre-COP flop not all Australia’s fault

Pre-COP flop not all Australia’s fault

The event falling flat is also very much another sign of wavering global support for concerted international action to achieve a carbon-neutral world...

07.10.2026 30

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Coalition takes the beaten path to immigration middle ground

Angus Taylor has gone big on headline cuts to try to play catch-up with One Nation while promising to do this in what he says is an economically smart...

06.10.2026 20

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KPMG Australia might have a case for a bailout from global HQ

There may be a legitimate argument that innocent KPMG Australia partners should not be financially squeezed for misdeeds they had no part in or...

05.10.2026 30

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One Nation populist insurgency spreads to cost-of-living pressures

Our latest poll shows that fewer people are buying the idea that more of the same from Labor will make a difference to key economic issues.

04.10.2026 30

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Don’t let big tech write all the rules of AI

Allowing the tech giants to self-police the most consequential technology of our era requires blind trust that they will exercise fair judgment over...

03.10.2026 40

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It’s now or never for the Libs on the economy

All things being equal, Labor messing up on the economy plays right into the Coalition’s traditional strength as a superior economic manager.

01.10.2026 30

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Easy money made private credit look safer than it was

Private credit’s golden era was built on cheap money, soaring property values and abundant liquidity. That safety net has evaporated

01.10.2026 20

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RBA must finally do whatever it takes

Tuesday’s unanimous decision by the Reserve Bank to lift the cash rate for the fourth time this year confirms the double failure on interest rates...

30.09.2026 40

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Labor is gaslighting us on its part in the RBA rate rise

Labor should belatedly commit to demand-side budget discipline and the supply-side pro-productivity agenda needed to help the RBA finally get...

28.09.2026 30

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Like AI, budget risks are a global threat too

To truly prepare the nation to withstand all the possible sources of instability, the government’s priority should be to control the known...

28.09.2026 30

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Trump can’t charm away America’s China problem

For all the pomp, pageantry and claims of stronger ties, the two nations’ deeper foreign policy divides remain largely unaddressed.

25.09.2026 30

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Medicare hack reveals the AI threat Australia can’t see coming

The breach lays bare our brittle IT defences and how Australia’s national security is paying the price of foreign tech giants’ trial-and-error...

24.09.2026 60

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Labor wants to save you from doomscrolling. But the fix could be worse

The PM wins easy praise for appearing to tackle the dark side of the internet while delivering a draft bill that is either defunct or promoting...

23.09.2026 30

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ASIC is right to litigate to clean up private credit markets

The shakeout in the $200 billion ‘shadow banking’ sector goes far beyond the cyclical headwinds of the property downturn.

22.09.2026 20

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Australia should demand early access to America’s frontier AI

It is reasonable for Australia to request early-stage access, when models are still in the testing phase, to guard against AI models running amok.

21.09.2026 30

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P for productivity is Chalmers’ intergenerational problem

Boosting Australia’s stagnant productivity as a matter of urgency is far more important than making the IRG modelling add up.

21.09.2026 30

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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.

18.09.2026 30

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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...

17.09.2026 40

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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...

16.09.2026 40

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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...

16.09.2026 40

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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 30

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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 40

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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.

11.09.2026 40

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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 40

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Turn up, tune in, and turn off to lift student performance

The latest PISA results suggest some basic building blocks of good school practice have gone missing in Australia.

10.09.2026 40

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Labor government owns property crash – and downstream supply risks too

The key long-term question is what impact the tax changes from budget night have on the economics of the housing market.

08.09.2026 40

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Tax changes cast a shadow over Labor’s housing target

The perception is that the government underestimated the impact of its disruption of the housing market.

07.09.2026 40

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UK backpackers low-hanging fruit for migration cuts

The government should be taking all reasonable steps to refocus a more politically sustainable program on bringing in the most qualified migrants.

06.09.2026 40

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Will Chalmers’ change on trusts save SMEs from a tax hit?

Whether the exemption regime proves truly effective will depend on whether small businesses can avoid the shell game of paying one tax to avoid double...

04.09.2026 40

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NSW Bar shouldn’t be a private club

Rather than shoot the media messenger, the legal profession should meaningfully address the obvious flaws in the accreditation system for joining its...

03.09.2026 40

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Bathla went bust building the homes Australia needs most

The reasons why affordable housing is prohibitively expensive to build point to the nation’s wider policy problems.

02.09.2026 50

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Sydney’s aviation near-misses expose a failure of leadership

Despite the obvious managerial problems at Airservices Australia, ultimate responsibility lies with the federal minister in charge, Catherine King.

02.09.2026 40

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Star wants the casino without the compliance

More damaging misconduct allegations engulfing the scandal-plagued business mean it’s unlikely to regain its gaming licence in the near future.

01.09.2026 40

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Secret Harbour byelection outs Labor’s Hanson challenge

The PM is right that a One Nation government would likely mean Trump-style chaos. But Labor’s seemingly chaotic management of immigration is not...

30.08.2026 40

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Bathla’s $3.3b collapse puts housing sector at risk

The scale of the problem was encapsulated by another Sydney developer calling it “the biggest housing disaster story Sydney has ever seen”.

29.08.2026 40

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WA premier’s attacks on Productivity Commission diminish public debate

It’s a great shame that one of the country’s more accomplished leaders feels he has to pander to parochialism rather than properly debate a...

27.08.2026 40

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Ben Carroll’s claim to ‘respect your money’ can’t be taken seriously

The new premier’s claim to respect other people’s money can’t be taken seriously in light of his decision to continue with the multi-billion...

26.08.2026 50

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Will Betty from Blacktown hear BCA’s pro-growth message?

Pushing against Labor’s big-government model, the Business Council of Australia is turing to voters to drive reform.

26.08.2026 40

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We take international students, so why not foreign tradies?

The Master Builders proposal for a priority migration pathway for construction apprentices is a way to target the migration program to fill genuine...

24.08.2026 40

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ACTU fights the Reserve Bank and laws of economics again

Ending a survey that helps shape economic modelling and informs decisions about the trajectory of interest rates is not in the national interest.

24.08.2026 50

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$1trn debt is the bill for political cowardice

Returning to low debt feels like a pipe dream when politicians lack both the appetite for austerity and the honesty to level with voters about the...

21.08.2026 40

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Governor-General should stay out of Swans scandal

The issue isn’t what Sam Mostyn said, it is whether she should have spoken out about the scandal in the first place

20.08.2026 60

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