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Having been the first person in his family to go to university, Education Minister Jason Clare wants to extend the ladder for others.

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

Vladimir Putin has found himself on a quagmire in Ukraine.

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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Artist’s impression of Navantia’s Tasman class warship, a Tier 2 corvette or light frigate.

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.

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Paul Keating’s predictions for the super industry.

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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Mike Henry says Labor would be better off reversing the damage it has done to the mining industry with its industrial relations laws.

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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Useful corrective: Woolworths chief Brad Banducci.

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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Anthony Albanese has a spring in his step.

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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February 19, 2024

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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Antisemitism has quickly spiked with the Gaza war.

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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Former ASIC deputy Karen Chester and former chairman James Shipton.

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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Jessica Farrell of BHP.

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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US President Joe Biden: “My memory is fine.”

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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Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto is the frontrunner in the Indonesian election.

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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Danielle Wood

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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Michele Bullock said that she was a glass-half full “optimist” about a recovery from Australia’s post-pandemic productivity slump.

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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RAAF EA-18G Growlers give Australia superior electronic warfare capability.

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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Employment and Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke.

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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RBA governor Michelle Bullock said the odds of a soft landing were evenly balanced.

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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RBA governor Michele Bullock.

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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Life & Leisure

Andrew Caillard

Rich List

Francisco Widjojo is the head of his family office Arkblu Capital, an example of the younger generation of family offices.