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Matt Comyn announces CBA results.

Why Comyn is cautious celebrating CBA’s bumper profit

Chief executive Matt Comyn has plenty to celebrate in the bank’s results. Unlike politicians, he prefers to avoid claiming much credit for that.

  • Jennifer Hewett

January

Treasurer Jim Chalmers, is happy with the fall in inflation

Falling inflation boosts Labor’s election push

The Albanese government will be even more relieved than the Reserve Bank that the latest consumer price index shows a further drop in inflation.

  • Jennifer Hewett
Former US ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy and her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

‘Predator’: Caroline Kennedy warns America of RFK jnr

In a searing letter, the former ambassador to Australia said Robert F. Kennedy jnr had led family members to drug addiction, and was unfit to be health secretary.

  • Jacqueline Alemany, Dan Diamond and Liz Goodwin
Substantial productivity improvements in the economy are still possible, but the regulation of our economy is extraordinary.

Nicholas Moore: blame bigger government for falling living standards

Much of the cost-of-living malaise in Australia is the result of policies that have expanded the role of government at the cost of long-term productivity.

  • Nicholas Moore and Tom Switzer

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  • Tom McIlroy
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The ultimate in destination dining around Australia

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  • Jill Dupleix
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
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
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
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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

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