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NSW to lease more offices for public servants ordered back
NSW is ready to lease extra office space after declaring it was time to end pandemic work-from-home conditions for its 80,000 public servants.
- Tom Burton
Warnings over ASIO workload because of heightened terror threat
The ASIO chief admits the spy agency is “stretched” as it deals with twin challenges of politically motivated violence and foreign espionage.
- Andrew Tillett
Foreign student crackdown is ‘economic self-sabotage’: uni chiefs
The policy change is over-reach, interventionist, Draconian and probably unworkable, scores of experts told a a Senate inquiry.
- Julie Hare
Frustration, confusion and Andrew Tate driving extremism in the young
Extremism experts warn that young men are becoming radicalised after looking to social media for simple answers to complicated economic and social questions.
- Gus McCubbing
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- International students
Unis to be capped at 40pc overseas students
The federal government will limit universities to 40 per cent international enrolments and bring numbers back to 2019 levels.
- Julie Hare
PM not tough enough on Iranian envoy: Libs
Ambassador Ahmad Sadeghi has hit out a “Zionist plague”, describing Hamas’ commitment to the “wiping out” of Israel by 2027 as a “heavenly and divine promise”.
- Phillip Coorey
Opinion & Analysis
Kim Beazley is utterly wrong, says Paul Keating
Former prime minister Paul Keating writes on WA’s risk from China; other writers on uranium mining in Jabiluka; Ismail Haniyeh’s death; lack of AUKUS transparency; and NSW eviction laws.
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The politics of grievance has become something more sinister
Ever since 9/11, terror alerts and politics have been inseparable, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t substance behind them either.
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Philanthropy needs reform to be more inclusive and effective
Philanthropy is not just for the 1 per cent. To maximise the impact of giving, all registered charities should qualify for tax-deductible status.
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Election timing no longer swings on an elusive rate cut
The government is at the mercy of the Reserve Bank. But the central bank is also subject to forces beyond its control.
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Kim Beazley is utterly wrong, says Paul Keating
Former prime minister Paul Keating writes on WA’s risk from China; other writers on uranium mining in Jabiluka; Ismail Haniyeh’s death; lack of AUKUS transparency; and NSW eviction laws.
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- Russia-Ukraine war
Australian ambassador shared work space with TikTok and a dog trainer
Australia’s ambassador to Ukraine worked out of a WeWork building in Warsaw amid fears Russian missile attacks make it too unsafe to go back to Kyiv.
- Andrew Tillett
NSW public servants ordered to return to office
Updated guidelines call for more than 400,000 public servants to be in offices “across the whole working week”.
- Campbell Kwan
- Analysis
- National security
The politics of grievance has become something more sinister
Ever since 9/11, terror alerts and politics have been inseparable, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t substance behind them either.
- Phillip Coorey
Beazley names state ‘most vulnerable and worthwhile’ to attack
The former defence minister says a nuclear submarine is vital to protecting the resources industry, urging an even harder line on blocking Chinese investment in critical minerals.
- Brad Thompson
PM’s Indigenous economic plan ‘not enough’
Businessman and Voice advocate Sean Gordon says many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities are not well placed to benefit from renewables development.
- Tom McIlroy
David Rowe cartoons for August 2024
David Rowe is a multiple Walkley award-winning cartoonist. He draws a daily political cartoon and one for the Chanticleer column.
- David Rowe
Reynolds’ claims ‘retraumatising’ Higgins, court told
Lawyers for Brittany Higgins have hit back at claims she cast Senator Linda Reynolds as a villain in an imaginary fairytale, calling them “harassing”.
- Tom Rabe
Extremism rising across the board makes terror attack ‘probable’
Security officials are alarmed by Australians embracing more extreme ideologies over issues such as pandemic lockdowns, the war in Gaza and economic hardship.
- Andrew Tillett
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- Big four consultants
Big four’s river of gold from taxpayers slashed 50pc
The Department of Defence recorded the biggest fall in spending as Labor cuts the public service’s reliance on outside advice.
- Ronald Mizen
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- Philanthropy
Philanthropy needs reform to be more inclusive and effective
Philanthropy is not just for the 1 per cent. To maximise the impact of giving, all registered charities should qualify for tax-deductible status.
- John Hartman
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- Immigration
New migration judges appointed to stop ‘bad actors’
Nine new federal judges will start work on Monday as part of a push to tackle delays in migration cases.
- Michael Pelly
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- Building Bad
Calls grow for royal commission to clean up CFMEU
There are growing calls for the federal government to launch a royal commission into the CFMEU, with the Business Council of Australia warning that an administrator does not have the powers to properly investigate misconduct.
- Patrick Durkin and Gus McCubbing
Telling overseas students what they can study is ‘pointless’
Dictating what overseas students can and cannot study to help Australia’s skills profile achieves little because 84 per cent of them go home, ANU analysis says.
- Julie Hare
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Pilbara at risk from Africa, Brazil without green iron push: Fortescue
Mining giant Fortescue has warned that the future of the Pilbara rests on government and industry forging a green iron industry.
- Tom Rabe
Burke working on steps for 2000 Palestinians to stay in Australia
“Obviously, no country in the world would send people back to Gaza at the moment,” says the Home Affairs minister.
- Ronald Mizen
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AFP discovers 2000 compromised Australian cryptocurrency wallets
Hundreds of compromised accounts were discovered on crypto exchanges including BTC Markets, Binance, Crypto.com, Ebonex, Independent Reserve, OKX, SwyftX, and Wayex.
- Ronald Mizen
‘A good idea’ to acknowledge Australia’s history: PM
The PM promises to renew Indigenous policy after “considerable hurt” from Voice referendum; Donald Trump proposes alternative election debate, but Kamala Harris says no. Follow updates here.
- Andrew Hobbs, Zoe Samios, Hans van Leeuwen and Lois Maskiell
PM promises major Indigenous economic plan
Anthony Albanese will attend the Garma Festival in Arnhem Land on Saturday, saying his determination to close the disadvantage gap has not wavered.
- Tom McIlroy
Fair Work names CFMEU administrator, seeks extraordinary powers
The FWC has chosen a senior barrister to administer the union and wants to give him sweeping powers to follow dirty money and sack officials. The CFMEU says it’s taking legal advice.
- Nick McKenzie, David Marin-Guzman, Ben Schneiders and James Hall
