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Former prime ministers Tony Abbott and Kevin Rudd brandishing each other’s books while in Washington.

It’s your own fault you are losing, Abbott tells world’s conservatives

The former prime minister also met privately with US Vice President JD Vance during his trip to Washington.

  • Michael Koziol

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US President Donald Trump, left, and US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at the White House on Wednesday AEDT. The president said Australia’s superannuation system was a “good plan”.

Trump ‘seriously’ considering version of Australia’s superannuation system

Though he was light on details, the US president said Australia’s system was a “good plan” and suggested it could help lift America’s declining fertility rate.

  • Michael Koziol
Few students are enrolling in Chinese Studies, including the language.

How do we compete with Beijing when so few of us can speak Chinese?

The tiny numbers of students learning an Asian language is a “systemic failure” which will cost us dearly.

  • Lisa Visentin
 At almost every step in our daily lives, there’s something in the way of taxpayers and businesses trying to go about their lives.

Whenever I ask about Australia’s $1 trillion failure, the response is pure anger

I spoke to hundreds of people about how Australia’s mishmash of local, state and federal government functions (or doesn’t). Everyone is angry about it, so what’s the solution?

  • Shane Wright
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A ruddy brilliant career

While mother dismisses the Dismissal.

Our former prime ministers have claimed more than $1.4 million in expenses so far in 2025.

Taxpayers foot $1.4m in expenses for our former PMs

The report doesn’t include pensions for the former prime ministers, or the costs of staff.

  • Brittany Busch
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Whitlam’s revenge?

A rear-ending on the back page.

A portrait of John Laws taken on the July 10, 2008

John Laws scores our PMs out of 10

There was no more familiar voice in Australian broadcasting than John Laws. At 90, he had lost none of his characteristic alpha male belligerence.

  • Peter FitzSimons
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Missing out on the art of the steal

Ballroom blitz disdains East Wing bits.

Ambassador to the United States Kevin Rudd and NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey at the Citi A50 Sydney Investment Summit

Kevin Rudd reveals Sydney’s trump card to lure global investors

Australia could do more to leverage its vast pool of superannuation savings, the Australian ambassador to the US told the NSW treasurer during a Sydney investment summit.

  • Matt Wade

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