Yesterday
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University success starts with fixing school performance first
The Universities Accord social equity aspiration depends on students being ready to study at a higher level after year 12.
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This Month
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As Ukraine’s stocks fall, stakes get higher
Two years after Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion began, it’s not just about whether Ukraine can avoid defeat but whether Europe can defend itself
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Bold navy plan needs backing with hard cash
Australia reaped a resources bonanza from China’s rise as the workshop to the world. Now some of that needs to be redirected as a national security insurance premium.
- The AFR View
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At 80, Keating keeps throwing down the gauntlet
Not everyone will agree with the former PM on AUKUS. Yet all should agree that a more independent security posture would not be sustainable if Australia continued to squander its opportunity of prosperity.
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Merger ruling, miner cut through the populist policy madness
Amid the stew of populist hysteria around banks, miners, supermarkets and stevedores, two clear voices have blasted through the policy incoherence.
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Corporates should focus on being on the right side of customers
Any social licence credits supposedly built up by supporting the Voice have counted for nothing, as Coles and Woolworths are now portrayed as profiteering pariahs at the eye of the cost-of-living political storm.
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Voters indifferent to tax cuts, worried about crime
The spring put in Anthony Albanese’s step by the redesigned stage three personal income tax cuts has not produced a big leap in Labor’s standing.
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Once a KGB thug…
During the Cold War, many on the political left in Western countries looked through the repression of the Russian people. Today, the moral equivalence of Russia’s “useful idiots” is on the populist political right.
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Middle East war does not excuse an ancient prejudice
Jews are again the subject of hostility and conspiracy theories that no other group has to face. It has happened too quickly and easily.
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Politicians should not police the corporate cop
The recent dysfunction at the very top of ASIC opens up the question of how to sanction independent regulators.
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Australia’s high-cost nickel bust
The truth we are discovering is that neither new nor old world mining do very well when the basic policies are not right.
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America faces no good choice for president in 2024
The bipartisan internal party gridlock leaves America - and allies including Australia - unable to move on and stuck with Biden versus Trump 2.0.
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Energy protectionism complicates our ties with Indonesia
Rather than the lack of complementarity between the nations’ economies, it is the clash with Indonesia’s resource nationalism that is now a key focus of Australian interest in the election contest.
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Workforce summit exposes IR inflexibility mismatch
The government calls its new industrial relations laws ‘closing loopholes’ when it is really about closing off flexibility.
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A bad week for Australian productivity and prosperity
Michele Bullock may be a glass-half-full optimist, but Labor’s latest moves will make economic recovery that much harder.
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Labor must face up to the reality of defence costs
The war in the corridors of Canberra has echoes around the world as Western politicians are forced to take defence seriously for the first time in years.
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Death sentence another harsh lesson in Xi’s China
In President Xi Jinping’s post-reform era in China, security paranoia is starting to trump any other consideration, economic or diplomatic, in a dismaying development in the world’s second-largest economy.
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Labor’s IR bill as bad as the poor process
The changes extend the archaic inflexibility of Australia’s complex, legalistic and proscriptive industrial relations regime.
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Bullock warns inflation job is not done yet
The RBA governor’s soft landing messaging depends on a greater “business dynamism” that the Labor government is doing its best to retard.
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Will new RBA era clarify or confuse monetary message?
Two key questions must be answered in the new era in Australian central banking that started this week.
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