Yesterday
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History shows energy transition is for the good
Australia needs to reframe the whole debate about heading into a low-carbon future from culture warfare to something rational and positive.
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This Month
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Speed up, take ownership, and hit vaccine target
Vaccination has been slowed for lack of a national plan, a target, and a face to front up the effort. All of them are needed to bring public urgency.
- The AFR View
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Future growth needs open borders and supply-side reform
The so-called shock absorbers rolled out to hold the economy together have turned out to be more like a trampoline. But we can’t ignore the looming headwinds.
- The AFR View
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Social problems need solutions, not grand designs
Given the endless worthwhile social causes, that should encourage policymakers to focus such spending first on where it can have maximum effect.
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May
- Opinion
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‘Anzac path’ to regional pushback against China
Jacinda Ardern has signed on to Scott Morrison’s strategy of regional pushback to protect the peace and stability of a free and independent Indo-Pacific from China’s power ambitions.
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Victoria’s decline shows fiscal buffer needed in a crisis
As Victorians endure their fourth major lockdown, attention is being focused on the pre-pandemic performance of Victoria’s political system.
- The AFR View
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The lessons from Victoria’s latest lockdown ordeal
The Victorian government cannot blame others for blows to the economy that hurt harder than they would elsewhere.
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Rich List renews and repurposes
Recycled, regenerated, renewable: this year’s Australian Financial Review Rich List shows Australia’s richest people are repurposing business for sustainability.
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The false dawn for Australian atomic power
From the archives: as part of our Platinum 70 Year, we take a look back at the AFR View on significant domestic and international events over the past seven decades.
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Why Australia didn’t go nuclear
In 1956, The Australian Financial Review enthused in an editorial about Australia’s nuclear future. By the early 1960s the Financial Review also highlighted the main obstacle: cheap and plentiful coal.
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Melbourne outbreak shows need for vaccine urgency
The only way to be safe from the virus and guarantee that normal life is here to stay is by encouraging Australians to get vaccinated as quickly as possible.
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Tech-neutral ‘green’ investment
Labor’s position on ‘green’ investments – which should be tech- and sector-neutral – is picking a political fight over something that should help, not hinder, Australia’s path to net zero.
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Unity needed to tackle our greatest strategic challenge
Domestic politics and foreign policy do not mix in a heated relationship with China. It is time to find a bipartisan middle way.
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Growth agenda needed to win back Labor base
The ALP struggles to retain its traditional heartland because, in a modern economy, blue-collar workers are the aspirational voters.
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Upper Hunter surfaces federal Labor’s political challenges
The byelection fallout leaves federal Labor in the weak position of needing to somehow resolve the internal culture war between its traditional blue-collar base and inner-city progressives.
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The time has come for harder vaccine nudges
A target for reopening borders and vaccine passports would create carrots and remove reasons for Australians not to get vaccinated.
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No JobKeeper ‘cliff’
The April employment numbers are remarkable, but it is going to take a lot more to keep joblessness falling.
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Victoria’s big tax and spend budget
The Andrews government is keen to extricate itself from Australia’s deepest pandemic hole, but Thursday’s budget does not look like the wisest way of tackling that task.
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Australia-China ties undone by changes under Xi Jinping
Outside the unnecessarily provocative rhetoric, it’s hard to see how Australia should have fundamentally managed the China challenge to achieve a different outcome.
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Regrettable retreats into protection and intervention
For the government’s oil refining and electricity-generating interventions to be justified, they need to be integrated into an energy transition plan.
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