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    Treasurer Jim Chalmers has talked up Labor’s supposed inflation-fighting prudence.

    August reprieve but no interest rate relief yet

    Inflation remains sticky, well-above the 2 per cent to 3 per cent target band, and has basically moved sideways.

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    Disappointed, but disciplined: BHP chief executive Mike Henry.

    BHP’s energy transition truths

    The peaking of iron ore and coal and the need to shift to new sources of income has left the threadbare reform agenda exposed. In fact, it’s worse: it is going backwards.

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    July

    Rex

    Rex turmoil flies into airline competition confusion

    The Transport Minister seems too inclined to accept Australia’s two-airline syndrome, that a third player on the busiest routes will inevitably be trampled by Qantas.

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    Health Minister Mark Butler and Ramsay Health Care’s Australia boss, Carmel Monaghan, are key figures in working to resolve the financial crisis in private hospitals.

    Beware propping up ‘bricks and mortar’ hospitals disrupted by ‘virtual care’

    Australia needs a big picture reimagining of how to organise and pay for the kind of healthcare services an ageing society needs, setting aside scare tactics about ‘US-style managed care’.

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    Uranium mining bans belong to a previous era

    Labor’s efforts to keep Australia’s energy transition uranium mining-free amount to a self-defeating hobbling of the nation’s green superpower hopes.

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    The two ministers responsible for immigration, Clare O’Neil and Andrew Giles, have gone to sideways.

    Will Albanese’s ‘no losers’ reshuffle be enough?

    The former workplace relations minister who let the law-breaking CFMEU off the leash by abolishing the Australian Building and Construction Commission has been put in charge of policing the nation’s borders.

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    Kamala Harris: multiculturalism or shrill identity politics?

    Harris v Trump presents starkly different Americas

    The exit of Joe Biden and the entry of Kamala Harris means real campaigns and robustly articulated choices.

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    These Games are an integrated part of rebuilding Paris to better connect the wealthy centre the tourists see with its poorer suburbs.

    War-torn world pauses in gratitude for Olympic Games

    In 2024 with geopolitical tension everywhere, the Olympics are once again showing their power to get on with important matters like playing games.

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    Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority chairman John Lonsdale told the Roundtable that the prudential regulator is undertaking cross-industry stress tests.

    Big super leans into private capital

    It makes sense for regulators to peek under the hood on non-bank lending while seeking to remove obstacles to the free and efficient allocation of risk capital.

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    Anthony Albanese can’t afford to offend the union bosses who rolled his predecessor Kevin Rudd.

    CFMEU lawlessness demands three responses

    But instead, Labor and the unions are seeking to dodge reinstating the ABCC, overhauling the governance of industry super, and scaling back Victoria’s Big Build.

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    Vice President Kamala Harris has the backing of Bill and Hillary Clinton, but may still face a challenge at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August.

    Biden exits the Democrat dog’s breakfast

    The question for Democrat hardheads will be whether Kamala Harris is a sufficiently compelling candidate to stop Donald Trump returning to the White House.

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    Kevin Rudd says people should “just chill” about what a second Trump term might mean for Australia.

    Trump’s return is no cause for chill in Australia

    Trump’s America-first populist mash-up of right-wing nationalism and left-wing economics threatens to jeopardise US leadership of the international rules-based order that benefits Australia.

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    Donald Trump speaks before his own bloodied image at the Milwaukee convention.

    Trump sets out his flawed vision for America

    Donald Trump’s policies will bake inflation in, and isolate America while weakening it. The Democrats need to field a credible challenge quickly.

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    Productivity Commission pours cold water on care spending

    Jim Chalmers’ misclassification of the care economy as a driver of productivity simply underlines why Labor needs a genuine reform agenda.

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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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