Yesterday
Australia set for weakest growth since WWII over next 40 years
The latest Intergenerational Report forecasts annual average growth 0.9 percentage points lower than the average annual growth of the past 40 years.
- Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Ontario nuclear model may not suit Australia
Canadian nuclear energy plan, SMRs, market’s role; threat to Victorian landscape; union seat on RBA board; CFMEU, Labor conference and Voice; Australia’s role in Timor-Leste.
Don’t foist IR bill on us hastily, teals warn Albanese
Labor wants its second tranche of workplace laws passed before Christmas, but key crossbenchers say time for proper scrutiny is needed.
- Tom McIlroy
David Rowe cartoons for August 2023
David Rowe is a multiple Walkley award-winning cartoonist. He draws a daily political cartoon and one for the Chanticleer column. You can see all of his political cartoons for August 2023 here.
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- David Rowe
- Exclusive
- AUKUS
AUKUS subs deal ‘could worsen US shortfall, blunt China deterrence’
A report for US politicians warns that AUKUS could worsen submarine shortages, fail to deter China and increase the risk of enemies stealing military secrets.
- Andrew Tillett
More than 11pc of boys aged 5-7 are on the NDIS
The NDIS is on track to once again exceed official participant projections as the program experiences strong enrolment rates among children with autism.
- Michael Read
Hanson and No campaigners drowning out Voice case
New analysis of speeches, interviews and social media posts reveals the ferocious push against constitutional recognition.
- Tom McIlroy
Climate change is an economic risk: Chalmers
Jim Chalmers says climate change poses a risk to the budget and the nation’s credit rating; Qantas is facing a class action lawsuit. How the day unfolded.
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- Lois Maskiell
Battler for small business could be next ATO commissioner
The ATO should improve public guidance about rules for legal assistance in disputes with small-business operators, a new report has warned.
- Tom McIlroy
This Month
BCA urges billions for transformative industry policy
The BCA says its economic overhaul would leave the Australian economy $200 billion larger and national income $7000 per-person higher after a decade.
- Ronald Mizen
States should get paid to do better on red tape and taxes, BCA says
Incentive payments would be complemented by broad-based tax reform that reduced reliance on income and company taxes, and increased GST revenue.
- Ronald Mizen
- Opinion
- Productivity
New BCA boss has an uphill battle ahead of him
When one minister’s response to the BCA’s blueprint for changing the economy is an eye-roll, it shows incoming chief executive Bran Black faces a challenge prosecuting his case.
- Ronald Mizen
Ageing population driving $140b blowout in spending
The top five budget pressures will rise from a third to one-half of spending within four decades with ageing driving the shift based on the current trajectory.
- Ronald Mizen and Phillip Coorey
$1.7b Tomahawk deal to expand strike power
The purchase will make Australia just the third nation, along with the US and the United Kingdom, to have the Tomahawk strike capability.
- Ronald Mizen
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Yes, No and the widening gap
The Voice: Amanda Stoker’s arguments, service delivery, Labor’s role; Callan Park NIMBYs v YIMBYs; government’s single aim; growth obsession; climate threat; nuclear power.
Business support for Yes campaign is backfiring, Price says
Big mining companies and other corporations donating millions of dollars to support an Indigenous Voice to parliament are assisting the No campaign by ostracising their own workers, Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says.
- Tom Rabe and Ronald Mizen
- Exclusive
- Russia-Ukraine war
Don’t give up on us, pleads Ukraine envoy
The Ukrainian counteroffensive’s lack of progress has come under criticism but Ambassador Vasyl Myroshnychenko maintains gains are being made.
- Andrew Tillett
How China is arming Russia with drones, choppers and metals
Russian firms have received tens of thousands of shipments from Chinese companies since the Ukraine war began; Woodside unions set date for NWS gas strike action; Rupert Murdoch is urging Glenn Youngkin to run for US president. Follow the latest here.
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- Andrew Hobbs
Albanese attacks ‘great contradiction’ in Liberals’ Voice campaign
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the Liberals’ position undermined “some of the fear campaign that is there about the impact of the Voice.”
- Ronald Mizen
Top-five budget pressures to add $140b a year to spending
NDIS and aged care are among the top five spending pressures that will account for one half of all Commonwealth spending within four decades.
- Phillip Coorey
