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    Floral tributes and solidarity on show at Westfield Bondi Junction.

    A traumatic week, and a need for calmer politics

    Murder in Bondi Junction and terrorism in western Sydney have come to a country already demoralised by a cost-of-living crisis. Time for politicians and other opinion formers to put the hyperbole away.

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    Yesterday

    David Rowe

    Australia must pay the price for defence and deterrence

    A generation of politicians who grew up with a post-Cold War peace dividend are now struggling to switch from welfare to warfare.

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    This Month

    Greens senator Nick McKim was looking for a scalp on Tuesday, and outgoing Woolies boss Brad Banducci had nowhere to hide.

    Greens’ supermarket inquiry a Canberra political freak show

    Does anyone think the public interest was served by the back and forth over the best metric of Woolworths’ profitability and threatening Brad Banducci with six months in prison for contempt of parliament?

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    Forensic judgment proves rape, debunks political cover-up

    Justice Lee’s factual pushback at some of the unthinking cultural warfare that has overwhelmed politics and media in recent times has performed a great service.

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    Joe Biden is now leading the international response and seeking to forestall any retaliatory escalation.

    Iran’s light show illuminates the real enemy of Mid East peace

    Some Arab nations recognise that Iran is the biggest threat to peace in the Middle East. That is a reality which many in the West are blind too.

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    Sydneysiders could rely on NSW Police and Ambulance NSW launching a massive response.

    Bondi Junction tragedy brings out the best

    The carnage at Bondi Junction Plaza may have lessons for mental health management. But it was also a violent exception that proves the rule of a harmonious society.

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    As with the old protectionism, the worst reason for this new protectionism policy is because everyone else is doing it.

    The week Australia travelled further down the dead-end policy road

    At the least, the Treasurer should join with whoever can claim to be an economic rationalist in this government to yell stop, wrong way, go back.

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    April 12, 2024

    Future Made in Australia a regression to the past

    Anthony Albanese’s new protection carries all the old risks of the old protection that took generations to dismantle.

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    Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers and ACCC chairwoman Gina Cass-Gottlieb are reshaping Australia’s competition laws for the 21st century.

    Competition case for merger shake-up is unconvincing

    Giving the ACCC bureaucrats more power might just add more red tape costs for little return. It would be more productive to focus on the obvious competition black spots.

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    Even Australia is not spared from China’s economic turn sharply inwards under President Xi Jinping.

    What comes after the China boom for Australia?

    As China and other advanced economies suffer mutual disillusionment, Australia needs to figure out how it maintains its sweet spot in China’s economy.

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    Virginia submarine

    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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    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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    April 3, 2024

    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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    Ken Henry, right, says politicians like Jim Chalmers must avoid a “tragedy” on tax reform.

    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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    Coalition going down the wrong aisle on supermarkets.

    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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    Incoming governor general Sam Mostyn

    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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    A shuttle bus at last year’s NATO summit, provided by the Lithuanian hosts, had a clear message for delegates.

    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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    Rooftop solar adoption has taken off.

    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

    Matt Comyn defied his comms team to talk tax.

    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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    Asking the right questions at the 2024 Banking Summit.

    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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    RM Williams CEO Paul Grosmann with Tattarang director Nicola Forrest at the Salisbury factory