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Mergers don’t always mean monopoly
HENRY ERGASTilting at windmills won’t help Rod Sims’s record as a pro-competition crusader.
Liberalism makes state answerable
Henry ErgasPoor decisions by regulatory authorities cost society and must be open to appeal.
We’re far from the Menzies era
HENRY ERGASJohn Howard’s TV series serves as a reminder of what stability looked like.
Where to for GOP after Trump?
HENRY ERGASThe Republican Party is facing fundamental challenges beyond its faltering presidential campaign.
Questions raised of regulators
HENRY ERGASStudies suggest the banking system is less secure now than it was before the global financial crisis.
Conroy leaves, undies on head
HENRY ERGASThe dysfunctional NBN assures outgoing Labor senator Stephen Conroy of a legacy not easily ignored.
Super changes will hit savers
HENRY ERGASThe government’s plan will reward those whose retirement is paid for by taxpayers.
Cohesion at heart of swimwear ban
Henry ErgasThere are basic notions of what is acceptable action when in public.
No great virtue in bank bashing
Henry ErgasThe Coalition should reset the economic agenda instead of taking cues from Labor.
COMMENTNew politics reaches sorry state
HENRY ERGASThe Coalition’s rejection of Kevin Rudd for a UN leadership role lays bare our fractured political culture.
Liberals not setting the rules
Henry ErgasVoters may not be policy wonks, but they do know what parties stand for — and when a party stands for nothing.
France takes centre stage
HENRY ERGASThe long-held French ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity are under sustained and brutal attack.
Trump unlikely to be dumped
HENRY ERGASA convention bloodbath is unlikely despite antipathy towards The Donald.
Long shadow of black ghettos
HENRY ERGASThe killings of police officers in Dallas last week highlight those African-Americans left behind by the economy.
Effective government recedes
Henry ErgasWhat little credibility politics had is fading and it remains to be seen where this will lead the country.
COMMENTShorten, Brexit share parallels
HENRY ERGASThe Australian Labor Party’s policy reeks of a deteriorating fiscal position.
AnalysisALP’s NBN growing green whiskers
HENRY ERGASWelcome to Labor’s plan for the National Broadband Network.
COMMENTLabor’s conjured costings
HENRY ERGASPublic spending is the glue which binds the Labor Party to its supporters.
How Clinton got sideswiped left
Henry ErgasThe putative nominee has been forced to be more ‘progressive’.
COMMENTCompany tax cut benefits workers
HENRY ERGASThe Labor Party’s objection to company taxation relief makes no sense in the shorter or longer term.
Vote for Labor will maim miners
Henry ErgasThe resources sector continues to give to the economy, even after the boom.
Supermarket red-tape unjustified
HENRY ERGASLabor can never bring itself to admit that the (super)markets are working just fine.
COMMENTALP’s spending is magic pudding
HENRY ERGASFirst there was the splurge on schools that would more than pay for itself.
COMMENTSuper debate deserves better
HENRY ERGASThe Turnbull government’s changes are not retroactive, but will they do any good?
The goals super should serve
HENRY ERGASLabor has framed the super debate and savers will end up wards of the state.
COMMENTAnger made Trump all the rage
Henry ErgasDisillusion at the US political class has fuelled Donald Trump’s success.
Grattan report a taxing read
HENRY ERGASFact-checking flies out the window as institute obsesses with wealth distribution.
Labor takes Europe’s road to ruin
HENRY ERGASHow has the need to raise taxes become an unchallenged part of the conventional wisdom?
Student union denying believers
HENRY ERGASThe evangelicals are defying the wind and tide of our times.
What PM should do with states
HENRY ERGASFederalism reforms are in trouble but there remain ways to improve public services.
Faith’s reshaping a troubled world
Henry ErgasAs Christianity spreads peacefully in the south, Islam slides further into fanaticism.
What is savers’ should stay so
Henry ErgasThe benefits of taxing super earnings are few compared with the damage caused.
Bowen’s right: leave act alone
HENRY ERGASIt’s rare we’re on the same side as Chris Bowen. But he’s right: section 46 of the Competition and Consumer Act should stay.
Trump would wreak world havoc
Henry ErgasIt is difficult to find precedents in US history for an equally incendiary populist candidate.
Labor’s negative gearing denial
HENRY ERGASThe ALP will engineer a weaker housing market, plus increase the burden on tenants.
Opinion
We’ll all win if PM cows unions
Janet Albrechtsen The power grab for volunteer firefighters goes to the heart of the federal election.
Disruption looms in anti-elitism
Paul Kelly Feeling ripped off by corruption and afraid of terrorism and migrants, voters are going to extremes.
Politics is turning into tennis
Greg Craven There are only two dogs in this fight — our first unashamedly imperial poll.
Don’t be fooled, focus on future
Catherine Livingstone We need policies that prevent a downward spiral as the world’s economy evolves.
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