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    Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong, right, is questioned by Australian Financial Review editor Cosima Marriner.

    Australia’s going backwards in the fastest growing region

    Asian investment isn’t just good business, it’s good security as well.

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    Hence this week’s campaign blitz in the West by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his front bench colleagues, and the blizzard of funding announcements.

    WA a case study in Australia’s carbon challenges

    Where the west goes now, so might Labor’s political fortunes. More important is what WA’s economic fortunes mean for Australia’s prosperity.

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    Mr Taylor should accept Dr Chalmers’ proposed transition arrangements as a reasonable first compromise.

    Genuine bipartisanship is needed on the RBA dual board plan

    The question now is what Labor and the Coalition are prepared to do to ensure those best qualified are in the room when monetary policy is being set.

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    Commonwealth Bank chief executive Matt Comyn at a parliamentary inquiry in Canberra on Thursday.

    Business must speak up and push back on populism

    Matt Comyn was right to challenge the fact-free rhetoric that is debasing Australia’s politics.

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    The three directors of the $92 billion Cbus super fund have quit or been forced out.

    Time for lateral thinking on boards

    Representation of pensioner members on super fund boards is an eye-catching idea. What if similar lateral thinking was applied to the future of corporate boards too?

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    Students from China and dozens of other countries flock to the most prestigous universities because these institutions rank in the upper echelons of world university league tables.

    Have universities brought Clare’s hard cap on themselves?

    It’s a populist political fix for cutting immigration. But a failure of university self-regulation has also led to government intervention.

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    ASIC chairman Joe Longo is taking a close look at private credit.

    Private credit boom demands regulatory attention

    Investor protections, transparency and higher disclosure standards need to be put in place, so investors can have faith they’re being paid for the risk they’re taking by moving their money out of guaranteed bank deposits.

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    Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.

    Dutton’s populist politics trashes Liberal principles

    The Coalition’s junior National Party partner is running a populist anti-business agenda, trashing the pro-business principles the Liberals purport to stand for.

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    Lia Finocchiaro claimed victory as the first female CLP Chief Minister-elect.

    NT wipeout should spark real ‘closing the gap’ discussion

    Ideally, the prominent role Indigenous policy will play in two critical NT federal seats would prompt much-needed discussion of Noel Pearson’s responsibility agenda.

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    Kamala Harris speaks during the Democratic convention.

    Harris and Trump policies will only do more economic harm

    Both US presidential candidates are offering counter-productive or fringe economic policies. That is bad for the US and the world.

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    AirTrunk’s Robin Khuda.

    ASIC scrutiny of private markets must get balance right

    Extending disclosure requirements into private deals could be viewed as unjustified regulatory creep. But the corporate watchdog is right to be vigilant on this issue.

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    David Rowe CFMEU Monday Muzza

    Labor’s far from cleaning up CFMEU mess

    Rather than waste time on the seemingly hopeless cause of rehabilitating the law-breaking union, Labor should really be focused on laws and institutions that are now called for to reinstate and uphold the rule of law across building sites.

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    Education Minister Jason Clare speaking at the AFR Higher Education Summit on Tuesday.

    University scapegoats still need to get houses in order

    The Higher Education Summit heard a system based on decades of massive expansion, loan-funded students and big injections of foreign students is at a watershed.

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    The Hakoah Club development on the site of the old White City tennis complex.

    All should stand with Jewish Australians against antisemitism

    It is deeply concerning that antisemitism is emerging as an unthinking form of prejudice in parts of Australian society.

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    Governor Michele Bullock used last week’s parliamentary committee appearance on Friday to downplay the central bank’s previous warning about bigger public spending in federal and state budgets contributing to higher inflation

    Poll shows why productivity should be the main game in Canberra

    The gridlock of minority governments would mean that Canberra’s productivity policy problem, which is already partly to blame for prolonging the cost of living pain, will only get worse after the next election.

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    Gambling messages at the football grounds might change soon.

    Labor can’t hide gambling mess behind media

    The government has used newfound concern with media company health as cover for fudged gambling policy.

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    The growing power of the super sector raises some big questions.

    Super wars are over, but the governance fight is yet to be won

    The Australian Financial Review is on the side of members, and we believe their interests could be served by a more transparent and independent superannuation system.

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    A photo released by Kursk’s governor shows a house destroyed by Ukrainian shelling in the city of Sudzha.

    Ukraine punctures Russian invincibility

    Ukraine will hope the 20-kilometre drive into Russian territory shows the West that fears of Russian escalation are no reason to slow-walk aid to Ukraine as they have done.

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    In the results for 2024 this week, one in three students failed to meet the basic benchmarks for literacy and numeracy.

    NAPLAN puts schools in remedial class

    The hopes that the $319b Gonski funding revolution would turn around the worst-performing students are turning into one of the great public policy debacles.

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    Tom Seymour and Luke Sayers continued dodging of responsibility before a parliamentary committee in Canberra at the start of this month.

    PwC saga puts structural split of big four on radar

    At the front and centre of the tax leak scandal are fundamental questions about the structure and integrity of the consulting sector.

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    Lauren Williams, director of Megaport, Anna Leibel, director of AMP, David Whittle, director of Myer, and Joanne Palmer, director of Paladin.

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    Robin Khuda arrived in Australia as an 18-year-old from Bangladesh, and is now at the centre of the year’s biggest deal.