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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...
Ironically, the Greens’ obstructionism might save the government from crashing on the rushed, poorly thought-out crackdown on investment tax...
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...
Australia needs to maintain supplies of legacy fuels while developing new sources of power to shore up the nation’s energy security.
It is significant that a second state government is now considering university amalgamations to engineer consolidation of the sector.
The Coalition will need to level with Victorians about the deeper budget cuts required and seek the election mandate needed to repair Victoria’s...
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...
Investors’ data centre FOMO has clearly cooled, replaced by hesitancy to finance the huge capex costs of massive hardware fit-out required to train...
The event falling flat is also very much another sign of wavering global support for concerted international action to achieve a carbon-neutral world...
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...
There may be a legitimate argument that innocent KPMG Australia partners should not be financially squeezed for misdeeds they had no part in or...
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.
Allowing the tech giants to self-police the most consequential technology of our era requires blind trust that they will exercise fair judgment over...
All things being equal, Labor messing up on the economy plays right into the Coalition’s traditional strength as a superior economic manager.
Private credit’s golden era was built on cheap money, soaring property values and abundant liquidity. That safety net has evaporated
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...
Labor should belatedly commit to demand-side budget discipline and the supply-side pro-productivity agenda needed to help the RBA finally get...
To truly prepare the nation to withstand all the possible sources of instability, the government’s priority should be to control the known...
For all the pomp, pageantry and claims of stronger ties, the two nations’ deeper foreign policy divides remain largely unaddressed.
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...
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...
The shakeout in the $200 billion ‘shadow banking’ sector goes far beyond the cyclical headwinds of the property downturn.
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.
Boosting Australia’s stagnant productivity as a matter of urgency is far more important than making the IRG modelling add up.
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.
The government should not just mechanically limit temporary migration, but retarget the program to bring in the most needed and most qualified...
If Australian companies can borrow more cheaply from Chinese lenders, there is a case for being realistic about the benefits – while managing the...
The stakes for the great power competition may be too high to slow down artificial intelligence development, strange as this may sound, given the...
Copying Canada’s approach suggests the once-fringe party’s proposals aren’t necessarily extreme and that some recalibration of migration...
Criticising Pauline Hanson risks generating more sympathy for her. But there can be no pandering to populism when fundamental legal and military...
Lack of budget discipline will compromise our ability to weather the uncertain economic implications of the global bond storm now under way.
If the ubiquity of global sports encourages Australians youngsters to look overseas for professional sporting careers, the AFL and NRL may find...
The latest PISA results suggest some basic building blocks of good school practice have gone missing in Australia.
The key long-term question is what impact the tax changes from budget night have on the economics of the housing market.
The perception is that the government underestimated the impact of its disruption of the housing market.
The government should be taking all reasonable steps to refocus a more politically sustainable program on bringing in the most qualified migrants.
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...
Rather than shoot the media messenger, the legal profession should meaningfully address the obvious flaws in the accreditation system for joining its...
The reasons why affordable housing is prohibitively expensive to build point to the nation’s wider policy problems.
Despite the obvious managerial problems at Airservices Australia, ultimate responsibility lies with the federal minister in charge, Catherine King.
More damaging misconduct allegations engulfing the scandal-plagued business mean it’s unlikely to regain its gaming licence in the near future.
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...
The scale of the problem was encapsulated by another Sydney developer calling it “the biggest housing disaster story Sydney has ever seen”.
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...
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...
Pushing against Labor’s big-government model, the Business Council of Australia is turing to voters to drive reform.
The Master Builders proposal for a priority migration pathway for construction apprentices is a way to target the migration program to fill genuine...
Ending a survey that helps shape economic modelling and informs decisions about the trajectory of interest rates is not in the national interest.
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...
The issue isn’t what Sam Mostyn said, it is whether she should have spoken out about the scandal in the first place