Yesterday
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JAUKUS shows Australia is seeking security in Asia
Ironically, turning AUKUS into JAUKUS would move the pact closer to satisfying the national strategic interest test formulated by its chief Australian critic, Paul Keating.
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This Month
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No hard data to back more costly supermarket regulation
The review represents a welcome move to contain any potential regulatory overreaction while also playing along with Labor’s political diversion to blame the two big supermarkets during the inflation outbreak.
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Israel must listen to its friends, not defy them
Israel has to show that it is better than the terrorists of Hamas. That means being accountable for its own behaviour.
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Tax review to avoid an ‘intergenerational tragedy’
Incremental change is a waste of time. Ken Henry says someone has to grab this thing and get on with it.
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Dutton’s slippery populist slope
The opposition leader should be challenging Labor’s bad ideas, not adding one of his own.
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A first governor-general from the business world
Sam Mostyn’s instinctive promotion of progressive cultural policies will now be cloaked in a vice regal role that should remain above politics and controversy.
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As NATO turns 75, Ukraine war remains a test of wills with a tyrant
Supporters of Ukraine must act quickly, lest the 75th anniversary of the key Western alliance instead marks a collapse of will and capacity in Ukraine.
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Solar fantasy gives industry policy a bad name
Australia does not have a great record at industry policy. Creating a bucket of government money for solar panels in the midst of a global subsidy war looks even less likely to work.
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March
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Bank bosses who speak the truth on reform
Tax reform is the cornerstone of rebooting national economic performance because its benefits are so pervasive. Business leaders are rightly taking up the conversation.
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We have to get the balance right in banking
Over-prescriptive and risk-averse rules on lending are not just a problem for bankers. They hobble the whole economy.
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Australia’s banks must rise to the challenges of the next decade
The underlying financial strength of the big four got them through a turbulent decade just gone. More competitiveness is needed to get them through the next 10 years.
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A competitive Australia needs more than words
Treasurer Jim Chalmers is now asking the right questions about Australia’s future, even if he needs to find better answers.
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Jobless rate shows RBA right not to rule anything in or out
The near 50-year low of 3.7 per cent should silence those who want to suggest that the Reserve Bank’s 13th cash rate increase last November was some sort of monetarist mistake.
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Labor’s home-grown foreign policy storms ambush Wong
No other Australian foreign minister has had to deal with a former prime minister - and reforming Labor legend no less - publicly second-guessing the government of the day’s foreign policy.
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Bullock’s nagging fear for ‘the last mile’
The governor’s failure to give firm guidance on interest rates in her press conference reflects genuine uncertainty about the end of the inflation fight.
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Greens’ farming ‘crisis point’ is rubbish
The Greens are using farmers as allies of convenience to pursue their left-wing populist campaign against the supposed price and profit gouging of Coles and Woolworths.
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Lee rebukes TWU’s monopoly
The court cases involving Uber and Qantas raised different questions about legalised business and union monopolies.
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Review points in the right self-reliant age care direction
Credit to the government for not simply ruling out making better-off Australians with healthy superannuation balances contribute more towards the cost of their care.
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GST system is paying for lost principles
The GST formula was meant to take the politics out of the system. Now we should be asking if the incentives were wrong in the first place.
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Rock star economists are prophets with nothing to say
This week’s sharpest economic analysis came not from left-leaning economists on tour in Australia, but from BlackRock global strategist Wei Li at The Australian Financial Review Business Summit.
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