Politics
Federal
Sydney and Melbourne property prices slow after record-breaking boom
Sydney and Melbourne house prices increased by tens of thousands of dollars last month but there are now signs the record-breaking national property boom has peaked.
- by Jennifer Duke
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Indigenous
Native title financial structures under scrutiny
The Adnyamathanha people question what there is to show for millions of dollars of mining royalties, as investigators probe the tangled finances of their native title body.
- by Adele Ferguson, Deborah Snow and Chris Gillett
Taxpayers will have to decide how to repay COVID-19 budget debts: Kennedy
Treasury secretary Steven Kennedy says while Australian debt levels are modest by global standards, taxpayers will have to decide how they are paid.
- by Shane Wright
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China relations
Dutton vows to call out Beijing and declares everyday Australians are with the government
Defence Minister Peter Dutton has vowed to call out China for its acts of aggression, declaring everyday Australians understood the threats posed by Beijing.
- by Anthony Galloway
Opinion
Education
National curriculum must ditch politics for evidence
The achievements of Australian students have declined more consistently and steeply than in any other country, barring fad-friendly Finland. We must reverse this trend.
- by Glenn Fahey
A $98 billion budget improvement but debt and deficit still ahead
Deloitte Access Economics believes the budget has improved by almost $100 billion since the mid-year update while workers are increasingly optimistic.
- by Shane Wright
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Telecommunications
MP to introduce bill banning telcos from charging customers during outages
Liberal MP Julian Leeser is trying to force Australia’s biggest telcos to resolve mobile breakdown issues through a private members’ bill.
- by Zoe Samios
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‘Extraordinary action’: Labor says government must justify India ban
Foreign Minister Marise Payne said the decision to criminalise Australians trying to return from India was “absolutely not” racist or immoral, but a necessary temporary measure.
- by Lisa Visentin
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National security
‘Strategic own goal’: Defence reviews Port of Darwin’s Chinese ownership
The Morrison government has tasked the Department of Defence to review the Northern Territory’s 99-year-lease of the Port of Darwin to a Chinese-owned company - a deal that has unsettled national security figures.
- by Anthony Galloway