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A productivity-enhancing reform agenda ought to be the focus in this year’s political campaigns.

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Voters laboring under gutless government

Ross Gittins may well bemoan the “era of gutless government”, but perhaps he should direct his criticism to the people responsible, the electors of Australia.

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Foreign Minister Penny Wong.

Wong pulls out of October 7, Jewish community event in Melbourne

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Josh Frydenberg

Frydenberg 2.0 presents a problem for the Liberals

A faction in Kooyong has started to agitate for Mr Josh Frydenberg to be the Liberal candidate in this seat. The current selected candidate, Amelia Hamer, won the right to be the candidate with a large majority vote nine weeks ago. Will we next hear that she has “generously” stepped aside for Mr Frydenberg? Being a woman, she must know what action is expected of her.

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Josh Frydenberg says he will not contest his former seat of Kooyong at the next federal election.

If not now, when? Frydenberg now bets on a distant future

The former treasurer has no realistic way to contest the next election. Could he try for Kooyong later? The truth is that nobody gets a smooth elevation to the top.

  • David Crowe
Josh Frydenberg hoses down speculation of a return to politics.

The Liberal Party created the perfect female candidate in ... Josh Frydenberg?

Could it be that a boundary redistribution was a pretext to Fryden-float this balloon of an idea of a return to politics for the former treasurer?

  • Jacqueline Maley

They say they ‘need’ Frydenberg. There’s an awkward problem with his return

The rush to restore Josh Frydenberg to parliament looks like a sure Liberal victory. But it’s a huge risk when anyone stops to think.

  • David Crowe
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‘Lifters, not leaners’: Analysing 123 years of Australia’s budget speeches

We’ve used artificial intelligence to analyse one million words from 124 budget speeches from 40 treasurers since 1901. Here’s what we found.

  • Shane Wright, Matt Malishev and The Visual Stories Team

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