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Jim Chalmers is not God’s gift to 21st century economics, but a spin doctor for the ages.

Coalition government will go back to basics on fiscal responsibility

Economic theory and empirical evidence demonstrates that a responsible approach to managing the nation’s budget is a prerequisite for prosperity.

  • Jane Hume

This Month

WA Premier Roger Cook and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

This year’s election gives miners a chance to flex their muscle

With plenty of marginal seats up for grabs, the road to power for both Labor and the Coalition could run through Western Australia, rather than western Sydney.

  • Mark Wembridge
Eric Siegloff with Christine Collins, whose face we have deliberately blurred at her request.

What it’s like to fall for a crypto scam

Christine Collins, 79, was unknowingly in the thrall of cryptocurrency scammers who had hacked her computer.

  • Nina Hendy

December 2024

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks with members of the Prime Minister’s XI and the Indian cricket team on Thursday.

PM chooses journalists over cricket elite

Albo made the photoshoot and the game, but not the sold-out function, where the list of dignitaries sending their apologies was long.

  • Myriam Robin

November 2024

President Donald Trump was more polite to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2019. New US tariffs will change that.

Trump’s tariff war won’t spare America’s allies

Donald Trump is promising 25 per cent tariffs on supposedly close allies like Canada and Mexico as well as China. Where does that leave Australia?

  • Jennifer Hewett
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The ACCC rarely holds public hearings. Of the four it has held, three have been against the major supermarkets and petrol retailers. Supermarkets are clearly a high-profile target for the regulators.

Supermarket grilling just a political distraction

The primary driver of the Coles and Woolworths business model is volume, not margin as the politicians or regulators would have us all believe.

  • Robert Hadler
Eric Gao is in China signing off on investments in a big new VC fund targeting Aussie tech firms.

New $1b VC fund will back Aussie start-ups with Chinese money

A Melbourne-based fund manager for Chinese money is set to close the first part of a targeted $1 billion to back Australian start-ups that could expand into China.

  • Jessica Sier
Queensland Premier David Crisafulli speaks to media after being sworn in.

Queensland LNP puts heat on Albanese before federal election

In just three weeks of being in government, the LNP’s first taste of power in the state in nearly a decade has been frenetic, with clear signals to Canberra.

  • James Hall
Donald Trump with Marco Rubio before his expected appointment as US Secretary of State

Trump’s foreign policy agenda a high-stakes guessing game

Donald Trump’s presidency is about to show up the contradictions in Australia’s defence spending and its domestic economy.

  • Jennifer Hewett
Transgrid CEO Brett Redmond, running for the board of the Clean Energy Council

Bonfire of the rent-seekers at the Clean Energy Council

The peak renewables industry group is seeking four new directors. Some 37 want on.

  • Mark Di Stefano
Visitors viewing Lindy Lee’s Ouroboros at night.

National Gallery handed $15m in biggest-ever donation

Kerry Stokes’ $15 million donation is about one-quarter of what the Canberra institution needs to raise for a new sculpture garden.

  • Michael Bailey

October 2024

Premier-elect David Crisafulli addressing the media on Sunday morning, alongside his deputy Jarrod Bleijie.

Crisafulli presses Albanese on funding share, Olympics

Incoming Queensland premier David Crisafulli will be officially sworn in on Monday, triggering a shift in policies and a new wave of cabinet ministers.

  • James Hall
Hikvision security cameras.

China’s dystopian surveillance operator gets eyes in Canberra

Labor-aligned Hawker Britton recently took on a new client: China’s surveillance giant Hikvision.

  • Mark Di Stefano
Parliament House is still addicted to Qantas.

The political addiction to Qantas is getting worse

There’s nothing like accruing status credits on someone else’s dime.

  • Myriam Robin
Queensland’s gas pipeline to the southern states is at capacity.

Gas shows the way to more renewables

There’s increasing focus on the crucial role of gas to support the energy transition. But bankers and politicians are yet to get the message.

  • Jennifer Hewett
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King Charles III will make his first visit to Australia as its crowned head of state.

Charles III will find republicans who missed their best chance

The vibrant republican sentiment of the 1980s has been replaced by a dour, downbeat guilt-ridden version in the 2020s.

  • John Roskam
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese joined Premier Steven Miles on the Gold Coast to campaign for the re-election of the Queensland Labor government.

Why there’s no free lunch in government

The Albanese government is still struggling to break out of a post-Voice gloom, with new policies failing to stop the lingering sense of drift permeating Canberra.

  • Jennifer Hewett
Coles is defending the ACCC lawsuit against alleged “illusory discounts”.

Albanese spots a bargain bagging Coles and Woolies

The government needs a political scapegoat to blame for cost-of-living pressures and inflation. The big supermarkets are reliable targets.

  • Jennifer Hewett
Federal Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather.

The Chandler-Mather plan to take Queensland (and beyond)

The Greens hope to claim another four seats in the Queensland parliament, before transforming the nation’s political landscape.

  • James Hall
Former Qantas chief Alan Joyce has signed some hefty advisers.

Alan Joyce arms himself ahead of Aston launch

After over a year of keeping a distinctly low profile, the former chief has this week signed not one but two hefty PR operatives.

  • Myriam Robin

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