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    Andrew Forrest has scaled back Fortescue’s green hydrogen ambitions.

    Don’t put all energy transition eggs in one green basket

    The energy revolution is producing militant evangelists and sceptics of individual technologies. Andrew Forrest’s hydrogen retreat shows policymakers need to be more open-minded.

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    The Albanese push to appoint an independent administrator is not a permanent fix.

    CFMEU’s industrial power has corrupted

    The scale of the systemic wrongdoing that has been uncovered demands a fuller judicial inquiry that must also probe the institutional enablers of the CFMEU’s crimes.

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    Sir Rod Carnegie had a major influence over Australian mining, business and national economic policy in the 1980s.

    Australia’s blue blood miner, management moderniser and business nationalist

    During his heyday in the 1970s and ’80s, Sir Roderick Carnegie was a believer in the power of big corporations competing in open markets to drive human progress.

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    Surely everyone knew the CFMEU’s dirty secrets?

    Given the money flows between the union, criminals, building companies and the Labor Party, cleaning out this poison must surely require action by federal or state corruption bodies.

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    A bloodied Mr Trump pumped a fist of defiance as he was whisked off stage to safety

    American democracy dodged a bullet too

    The failed attempt to take out Donald Trump might put him back in the Oval Office.

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    BHP’s Nickel West refinery in Kwinana WA will be mothballed in 2027.

    Nickel is a sobering reminder of commodity fortunes

    Australia has been showered with resources export wealth for nearly 20 years. BHP’s nickel operations show we still have to get the basics of cost and productivity right.

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    Middle Australia has every opportunity to rise up the income ranks, according to new Productivity Commission analysis.

    Australians need a sharp reminder of how well off they are

    A new study is an objective demonstration of why Australians have no cause to mimic the populist rhetoric that has poisoned politics in the US and Europe.

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    Shipping shock glimpse of world without rules

    The Houthi missile blockade in the Red Sea driving a new spike in import freight costs shows a global exporter and importer such as Australia has a critical interest in maintaining free and open global trade.

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    US President Joe Biden stands with fellow NATO leaders during a group photo in Washington DC for the alliance’s 75th anniversary.

    Ukraine remains NATO’s pressing test of global relevance

    The shadow that hangs over NATO’s 75th birthday is a strange brew of populism that now endangers the alliance’s claim to modern strategic relevance.

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    France says adieu to the centre

    Australia too faces a drift to minority government, polarisation and identity politics at the next election, which France showed how easily can go off course.

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    Foreign Minister Penny Wong has criticised malicious foreign cyber activities.

    Where do Australia’s China ties go after hack?

    The public outing only raises the question of where Australia takes the matter from here, and what it expects China to do.

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    With 81-year-old Joe Biden’s cognitive decline alarmingly obvious, his candidacy for the most powerful office in the world is no longer viable.

    For anyone but Trump, US needs anyone but Biden

    It’s likely Joe Biden will stumble again on the campaign trail, giving Americans more reason to make the Hobson’s choice of voting for the morally unfit Donald Trump.

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    The NDIS system is not in a healthy state.

    NDIS payback for Shorten

    The new regulations are a worthwhile but modest start, and after the Coalition’s playing politics, both sides should come together to get on top of disability spending.

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    The Australian Greens Pakistan-born Senator Mehreen Faruqi on Sunday went further down the road toward religious-based political tribalism.

    Reject injecting political Islam into Australia

    The British general election has underlined the dangers now facing Australia’s political and social cohesion.

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    David Rowe’s comment on Britain’s general election result.

    Keir Starmer can drive Britain to reform-led growth

    Britain’s new PM must lock in growth quickly if he is to secure Labour’s huge win. With a planning system from hell and a 17,000-page tax code, there is plenty of scope for reform.

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    David Rowe

    Sectarian divide threatens idea of Australia that benefits migrants

    Battling out toxic foreign feuds here, and pushing votes on issues far beyond the reach of Australian governments is both pointless and divisive.

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    David Rowe.

    Dutton’s populist break up big stick betrays Liberal principles

    Cheap anti-business sentiment is fuel for the left and right-wing populists causing havoc in Europe and the US. No one should be rushing to bring it here.

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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.

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    Figuring out where to extract value from the energy transition isn’t getting any easier for investors.

    Power price inflation risk for RBA and Labor

    Australia’s green energy superpower hope is cheap and clean power. The near-term reality is higher than expected electricity prices to the end of the decade.

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    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.

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