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    Evidence of a link between social media and poor mental health in young women is growing.

    Mental health crisis for young women started in 2012, study finds

    More research has found a strong link between the emergence of social media and depression, anxiety and self-harm.

    • Julie Hare

    Which states are in ‘the slow lane’ for retail spending?

    Retail sales in Victoria and Queensland are lagging the rest of Australia on a per-person basis, while Western Australia tops the spending charts.

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    • Ronald Mizen

    Powell: The US is back on a ‘disinflationary path’

    Still, US policymakers need to have more confidence that price pressures are continuing to ease before pivoting to rate cuts, the central bank boss said.

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    • Balazs Koranyi and Howard Schneider

    RBA inflation target challenged by power prices

    Other areas of the economy will need to offset the impact of higher than expected power prices to keep inflation within target, economists say.

    • Angela Macdonald-Smith and Ronald Mizen

    Labor appoints former NBN boss as nuclear head

    Mike Quigley has been appointed as the head of the federal government’s peak nuclear organisation.

    • John Kehoe

    Rising inflation tests RBA’s ‘limited tolerance’

    More rate rises could be needed, as soon as August, after the Reserve Bank noted inflation “increased the risk” rates would not rein in CPI as quickly as forecast.

    • Ronald Mizen

    Opinion & Analysis

    There is no catastrophic failure of AUKUS Plan A

    The “optimal pathway” may not run exactly to plan, but the risk is known, is being managed, and all three partners have demonstrated their commitment to the process.

    Jennifer Parker

    Defence expert

    Jennifer Parker

    AUKUS future is resting on belief alone

    Defence and government figures brim with confidence over Australia’s nuclear submarine program, but there’s no Plan B and – to some – an air of desperation.

    James Curran

    International editor

    James Curran

    Why we need to have a genuine look at nuclear energy

    Nuclear energy is the kind of nation building policy we need when our lucky country’s luck is running out.

    Georgina Downer

    Robert Menzies Institute

    Georgina Downer

    Slashing foreign student numbers would be economic self-harm

    Before the government puts the squeeze on Australia’s $48 billion university export industry, it should consider how much GDP it is prepared to sacrifice.

    Bran Black

    BCA chief executive

    Bran Black
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    There is no catastrophic failure of AUKUS Plan A

    The “optimal pathway” may not run exactly to plan, but the risk is known, is being managed, and all three partners have demonstrated their commitment to the process.

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    • Jennifer Parker

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    AUKUS future is resting on belief alone

    Defence and government figures brim with confidence over Australia’s nuclear submarine program, but there’s no Plan B and – to some – an air of desperation.

    • James Curran
    Prime Minister Robert Menzies launches Australia’s first nuclear reactor,  HIFAR, on April 18, 1958.

    Why we need to have a genuine look at nuclear energy

    Nuclear energy is the kind of nation building policy we need when our lucky country’s luck is running out.

    • Georgina Downer
     Student numbers are at around 786,000—close to pre-pandemic levels of around 756,000 in 2019.

    Slashing foreign student numbers would be economic self-harm

    Before the government puts the squeeze on Australia’s $48 billion university export industry, it should consider how much GDP it is prepared to sacrifice.

    • Bran Black
    Australia faces higher power costs.

    Energy transition will cost much more than politicians are pretending

    The brutal reality is that taxpayers and consumers will be on the hook for much higher costs under a renewable or nuclear energy system.

    • John Kehoe
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    It’s no surprise that a non-market-facing government bureaucracy has failed to turbo-charge competition.

    Open banking offers a salutary tale

    The lesson is that governments trying to regulate their way to a greater bank competition can have anti-competitive effects.

    • The AFR View

    This Month

    The Bank of England has now reached its inflation targets.

    Central banks have done their job. Now others must do theirs

    Central bank independence from governments has proved its worth yet again. But it is politicians who now have to step up reforms that cannot be put off.

    • Agustin Carstens
    Queensland will review its housing tax structure.

    Queensland mulls expansion of stamp duty discounts in tax shake-up

    Expanding stamp-duty concessions and overhauling land tax in Queensland will be considered as part of a new tax shake-up.

    • James Hall

    AUKUS ‘moonshot’ may be a tragically expensive failure

    It is alarming that both Coalition and Labor politicians fail to acknowledge the risk that Australia could be left with no submarine capability by the end of the 2030s.

    • James Curran
    Peter Briggs, Paul Greenfield, Jon Stanford

    ‘A cruel joke’: Why AUKUS might leave Australia stranded

    A group of defence experts says that the Albanese government is on course for a financial and strategic AUKUS disaster, in the final part of an exclusive series.

    • James Curran
    James Curran’s AUKUS series is timely.

    On AUKUS, Australia must catch up, not start again – yet again

    Australia’s political, diplomatic and defence chiefs need to work with AUKUS counterparts in America and Britain to find a way through the gridlock.

    • The AFR View
    The quality of healthcare outcomes has risen, but so has the cost.

    The public sector is the key to Australia’s productivity puzzle

    There is some cause for cautious optimism for increased productivity in the healthcare sector if outcomes can be more accurately measured and assessed.

    • Alex Robson
    Nuclear power would cost households at least $200 more a year says Rod Sims.

    There is a respectable economic argument for nationalised nuclear

    The bottom line is that there are sound public choice arguments for the government to build and own nuclear power plants.

    • Sinclair Davidson
    Scott Morrison incurred the wrath of French President Emmanuel Macron when he announced the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal with UK PM Boris Johnson and US President Joe Biden.

    Morrison’s ‘longest night’: Inside the making of AUKUS

    The military agreement is a mess and risks leaving Australia with no submarine capability at all by the late 2030s. The cloak of secrecy that secured the deal could now be its undoing.

    • James Curran
    Technology stocks, and global equities more broadly, were crucial to ART’s returns, Andrew Fisher says.

    Super giant seeks tech stock ‘second wave’ after delivering 11.3pc

    Rising tech stocks helped land an 11.3 per cent return for Australian Retirement Trust superannuation members, but unlisted property was still a drag.

    • Hannah Wootton
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    Humans typically struggle to see patterns in complex high-frequency transactions, but computers can be trained to identify networks and suspicious transactions.

    Why people with cancer don’t get the full benefit of clinical trials

    Australian researchers say regulators should mandate the requirement to share data.

    • Jill Margo
    The Suncorp deal only adds about 2.5 per cent to its market share in home loans and will keep ANZ the smallest of the big four.

    Chalmers’ ANZ-Suncorp merger approval is ironic for bank competition

    The whole drawn-out process could end up discouraging market dynamism by offering no way out to the smaller banks lacking the economies of scale to compete effectively.

    • The AFR View
    Reserve Bank of Australia deputy governor Andrew Hauser.

    RBA’s new Englishman tells Aussies: you’ve forgotten how rich you are

    If Australians don’t appreciate their fortune, as Andrew Hauser correctly points out, they may not be well placed to preserve it.

    • Michael Stutchbury
    Former AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan will step into a big new role at Tabcorp.

    Businesses failing to weigh wider risks

    Readers’ letters on the need for boards to consider risks beyond their organisation; the links between gambling and sport; and the fight against inflation.

    The reformed safeguard mechanism is expected to deliver at least 200 million tonnes of net abatement by 2030.

    Better carrot and stick provides investment certainty for carbon cuts

    The climate safeguard mechanism for large emitting facilities means reaching the 43pc emissions reduction target by 2030 is certainly “doable”.

    • Kerry Schott