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It’s a good interim result and an early victory roll for soon-to-depart chief executive Jane Hrdlicka.

Qatar-Virgin deal finally the right result for consumers

Petrodollars underwriting a more competitive aviation sector is not new for Australia or many other countries. And it’s something that should be welcomed as ultimately giving consumers the best chance to benefit from meaningful competition.

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Yesterday

The reality is Australia’s position will make no real difference to the war in Gaza that is spreading into Lebanon.

October 7 protests would do more damage to social cohesion

Ideally, the protest organisers would rule out the rallies proceeding based on taste and sensitivity, without even waiting for the court decision in NSW.

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This Month

The central bank could now publish the diaries of deputy and assistant governors - as Ms Bullock already does.

RBA must make rules of engagement explicit

The central bank should keep on talking to bankers, market economists, and politicians. But it needs transparent rules to guide it when it does.

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September

Treasurer Jim Chalmers delivers the 2023-24 budget outcome in Canberra on Monday.

Chalmers isn’t a fair dinkum fiscal repairer like Keating and Walsh

It’s not unfair to look through Dr Chalmers’ two vanishing surpluses to the bigger budget picture: not enough has been done to tackle Australia’s long-term spending.

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Opposition leader David Crisafulli has an 8-point lead as preferred premier.

Queensland wipeout good for Labor’s federal election chances

The LNP small target strategy is politically effective. It’s on track to take out an unpopular Labor premier and, in the process, give a Labor prime minister a better chance of keeping his job.

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Long-term results for super depends on vigilance over the risks now.

Keeping vigilance over our big super risks

Australians now have a mountain of capital saved in their super system. But size brings its own challenges.

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Inflation has also made the chief inflation fighter the second most powerful person in the country, with Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock installed at number two on the Power list.

Inflation makes or breaks this year’s Power list

The power rankings reveal the splintering of traditional political power in a two-party system that is emerging alongside the economic strains.

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The Greens’ calls to abolish capital gains deductions and limit negative gearing have wedged Labor with younger voters who are struggling to buy a first home amid steeply rising rents and house prices.

Real tax reform could help fix the housing crisis

The political system lacks the maturity to even discuss using tax policy as a serious instrument to help solve the housing shortage.

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Gina Cass-Gottlieb is making the biggest statement of her relatively short time as head of the ACCC

Retail politics of ACCC Coles and Woolies case are bad for business

The investor reaction underlines challenges facing the business community which has tried to push back against the populist anti-big business bashing in Canberra.

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David Rowe

Dutton nuclear policy sell fails to add up the cost

The energy future of Australia requires details – and lots of them – so that voters can make an informed choice. 

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Despite Israel’s pager attack on Hezbollah and the funerals that followed, both sides have held off an all-out war.

Israel and Iran must stay away from the brink

Outside Hamas, nobody in the Middle East has much to gain from an all-out war. But that does not make the off-ramps from conflict any easier to find.

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Bran Black, CEO of BCA, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, and Geoff Culbert, president of BCA.

A week that put Australia’s reform challenges up in lights

A fractious political class distracted by populism, opportunism, and polarisation is failing to tackle key growth and productivity challenges.

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Time may have arrived to consider alternative ways to increase supply and meet demand.

The economic case for higher childcare spending should stack up

Simply throwing more money at the system doesn’t seem to be the answer for cheaper childcare or increasing women’s participation in the workforce.

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Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke.

Cybersecurity for the C-suite, not just the IT crowd

At Tuesday’s Australian Financial Review Cyber Summit, the corporate regulator warned boards and managers against “cyberwashing”.

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Reform has taken a back seat in recent decades.

Labor needs to listen to its reform legends again

The frequent references to reform heroes just underscore the message at the BCA dinner that government and business need each other.

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The BCA dinner is It is also the opportunity for the Prime Minister to take on the big economic reform challenges, such as tax reform and boosting productivity called for by Bill Kelty.

Not pulling the climate trigger shows needle Labor must thread

Anthony Albanese has overruled Tanya Plibersek on a deal with the Greens because he doesn’t want to hang a lantern over what a Labor-Greens minority government might entail for the mining industry, especially in WA.

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The Business Council of Australia CEO Bran Black (left), Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and former BCA president Tim Reed at the BCA annual dinner last year.

BCA must speak out on Australia’s big-picture policy challenges

Some of the criticism in our story of the declining power and influence of an institution, whose meaningful voice helped reform Australia’s economy, we believe is merited.

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Aged Care Minister Annika Wells and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announce the long-awaited aged care deal this week.

A reform to face the test of an ageing Australia

It is encouraging that the two main parties have tackled such a fundamental challenge to the nation in a bipartisan way.

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese greets Minerals Council of Australia CEO Tania Constable and Glencore head of coal Earl Melamed at a parliamentary dinner on Monday night.

Stop taking our mining good fortune for granted

There is a danger of not only bashing the mining industry, but in treating new minerals as the “next big thing” while overlooking legacy conventional mining.

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Ms Harris performance in a debate (which most pundits think she won) will keep her competitive in the race.

A polarised America is yet to turn the page on the Trump show

What the debate ultimately underlined is why the election will be close in what remains a divided country.

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