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Meet the two doctors revolutionising emergency healthcare
In outer Melbourne a virtual emergency department has offered 250,000 patients treatment and created a model to help keep ageing baby boomers out of hospital.
- 45 mins ago
- Tom Burton
Why the RBA won’t cut rates soon; Supermarket stoush; Misguided push for Australian made
This week, James and editor-in-chief Michael Stutchbury discuss the data the RBA will be mulling, examine how the supermarket inquiry turned nasty, and ask whether the Made in Australia push is doomed.
Booming AI demand threatens electricity supply
Regulators are scrambling to factor the explosive growth of data centres into demand projections as one network warns of a 250 per cent surge in power needs.
- Ben Potter
Forced supermarket break-ups ‘a dopey idea’
Former Productivity Commission chairman Peter Harris questions legality of such an arrangement, citing the clause in the Constitution that saved The Castle’s Darryl Kerrigan.
- Ronald Mizen
- Perspective
- Australian economy
Why the inflation beast is so tough to tame
Price pressures are just not going away, with rising home values and rents a big part of the problem. That has big ramifications for interest rates.
- Karen Maley
Why India’s confidence is growing
Narendra Modi’s reign as prime minister is producing a less liberal but more assured nation that is predicated on the idea of Hindu supremacy.
- Ravi Agrawal
Opinion & Analysis
Forget solar panels, let’s focus on Australian-made pharmaceuticals
Readers’ letters on a better Future Made in Australia idea; judges’ claims to avoid a super tax; the real hurdle for young people buying a home; the irony of Dubai floods; and an outstanding expat.
Contributor
Appeasing Iran has proven weak and provocative
If Tehran’s power can be contained and then reduced, the Middle East will be a much more peaceful place.
Columnist
Future made in Australia critics show old orthodoxies die hard
The existential climate challenge is Australia’s opportunity to reverse the policy settings that hollowed out manufacturing.
Emeritus Professor
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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- Letters to the Editor
Forget solar panels, let’s focus on Australian-made pharmaceuticals
Readers’ letters on a better Future Made in Australia idea; judges’ claims to avoid a super tax; the real hurdle for young people buying a home; the irony of Dubai floods; and an outstanding expat.
- 1 hr ago
- Opinion
- Foreign relations
Appeasing Iran has proven weak and provocative
If Tehran’s power can be contained and then reduced, the Middle East will be a much more peaceful place.
- Alexander Downer
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Future made in Australia critics show old orthodoxies die hard
The existential climate challenge is Australia’s opportunity to reverse the policy settings that hollowed out manufacturing.
- Roy Green
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- Opinion
- The AFR View
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.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Carbon challenge
New Malthusians are wrong: a rich world will need less energy
We will need to generate only half the energy we do now to replace today’s electricity use, lift the global South, and feed all those data centres. So rejoice.
- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
- Analysis
- Interest rates
The global narrative on rate cuts has just been rewritten
Treasurer Jim Chalmers and the other attendees at this week’s meeting of the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors may be suffering from whiplash.
- Michael Read
- Opinion
- Biden's White House
America’s Superman foreign policy flies again
The hard realism of Asian allies about America’s direction must jostle with the return of uncompromising American unilateralism.
- James Curran
- Analysis
- Mental health
Why Schizophrenia no longer has to be a life sentence
Until the 1950s, there was no effective therapy and painful experimental treatments, such as brain surgery and sulphur injections, failed. That’s all changed.
- Jill Margo
- Analysis
- Competition
Five practical ways to turbocharge competition
Former productivity commission chairman Peter Harris suggests that supermarkets, banks and qualifications are some of the areas to focus on.
- Ronald Mizen
OpenAI’s model all but matches doctors in assessing eye problems
Ophthalmology has been a big focus of efforts to put AI to clinical use and fix obstacles to take-up, such as the tendency of models to ‘hallucinate’ by creating fictitious data.
- Michael Peel
Gas costs could sink more manufacturers after Qenos: AIG
Australian Industry group chief executive Innes Willox said the collapse of Qenos reflected the “erosion of key pillars of Australia’s industrial landscape” and high gas prices – and risked much more damage.
- Ben Potter
- Opinion
- The AFR View
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.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Jobs numbers pose a sticky conundrum
The Albanese government can only publicly welcome the strength of the jobs market, but a receding horizon for rate cuts is always difficult for political leaders eyeing their election prospects.
- Jennifer Hewett
International student numbers slump as reforms bite
Only 46,570 students landed in Australia to begin their studies last month.
- Julie Hare
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
It’s political spending that feeds inflation, not Coles and Woolies
Readers’ letters on wasteful spending; the need for a Made in Australia policy; the fantasy of sustainable aviation fuel; Climate 200 candidates; confusing petrol prices; and Woodside’s climate dilemma.
- Updated
- Employment
Business collapses hit record, jobs market stays strong
The slowing economy pushed a record number of businesses into insolvency last month, but just 6600 people lost their job, suggesting smaller firms were hit hardest.
- Ronald Mizen
China’s iron ore demand may have peaked, RBA warns
The country’s shrinking population is posing a multi-decade headwind for mining industry profits and government revenue.
- Updated
- Michael Read
Is this flat white really worth $500 a cup?
If you thought coffee was getting expensive in Melbourne, it’s hard to beat the eye-watering price for this Japanese-grown coffee in London’s Mayfair.
- Blathnaid Corless
- Analysis
- Defence
Marles forced to revise Canberra’s take on far away wars
The Defence Minister has made it clear the government is going to stare down critics who want our troops turning up at every world trouble spot.
- James Curran
- Opinion
- Australian economy
So-called ‘reform’ is working against the productivity objective
The government’s (self-)celebrated productivity agenda is mainly a spending agenda, indeed a spending more agenda, and avoids the regulatory reforms we need.
- Gary Banks
