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Is Trump killing the America we’ve always loved?
The US administration’s tariff chaos has roiled markets, distressed allies and will embolden America’s enemies. It’s too high a price to pay for Trump’s confused and contradictory ambitions.
COMMENTARY
What hope in world of plunging trust
The big parties are exhausted. Their membership has collapsed. But the worst of it is they have lost the trust of a large part of the population and that will be hard to recover.
INQUIRER
Clarion call for Dutton to rally a nation in peril
If we’ve learned anything, it’s bad governments do not improve with a second chance.
INQUIRER
Dumb and dumber policy auction imperils nation’s prosperity
Australians are yearning for leadership, vision and courage but this spendathon of a campaign is turning voters off politics.
INQUIRER
Move over, millennials: debunking the election’s biggest myth
The message this election is that the era of aged power is over, the boomers are busted and the new voting power is with the young. There’s just one problem with this narrative: it’s wrong.
COMMENTARY
Cost of living is not just groceries- it’s housing
Sometimes I wonder if any politicians actually do their own shopping, or know how, or pay their own bills. How many of them have a mortgage? It doesn’t seem to be front of mind for a lot of commentators, either.
EDITORIAL
Spending rails essential to curtail deficits and debt
If Sunday’s party launches are to mark a new, decisive stage in the campaign, Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton must both bring forward effective productivity strategies.
EDITORIAL
Meta preys on vulnerable teens
Objections to Australia’s social media ban for young teens have no credibility.
EDITORIAL
Great powers get set to divorce
We are ill-prepared to weather the storm of US-China uncoupling.
Energy policy ‘righteousness’ misses the forest for the trees
Labor Party leaders have managed to turn energy, a basic right, into part of their questionable ideology by not continuing to use coal as a baseload to a degree and selling off gas.
Beware the bull in the china shop
The stockmarket reports make for grim reading and one struggles to find the appropriate expression that describes the carnage initiated by the decisions of President Donald Trump.
Trumpian vision for US means unavoidable chaos for the world
The purpose in Trump’s wielding of power is for a triumphant Trumpian America. However, whether Trumpian designer chaos will deliver such an outcome is another matter.
Feeding the Chooks
Nats leader absent from flooded electorate for city fundraiser
David Littleproud’s western Queensland electorate is underwater but he was chasing the flow of campaign donors’ money at a $5000-a-head fundraiser in inner-Brisbane.
Who was the mastermind of Olympic rowing on croc-infested river?
Anthony Albanese’s union army goes on the march against Peter Dutton, and Chooks discovers who came up with the idea to host Olympic rowing in croc-infested Rockhampton.
The acknowledgement of country change not everyone is happy about
The new Speaker of Queensland parliament has quietly expanded the acknowledgement of country that recognises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders at the beginning of every sitting day – but not everyone is happy with the changes.
A-G wades into sex, gender discrimination stoush
Churches are applauding Queensland’s new Attorney-General Deb Frecklington for stalling implementation of Labor’s tougher sex and gender discrimination regime. But are women in the workplace at risk?
Off brand in a whole new world: Coalition message lost in small strategy
The Liberals’ strategy may have been the right one a month ago, but a dramatcially changed world demands a new approach … urgently.
The perfect book club tome is…
Choosing a hot new book also tells your friends that you are a literary habitue. You are the zeitgeist – you can even spell it. But don’t fall into these traps…
Achilles heel: Failure on economy, energy leaves Labor vulnerable
With Australia now more vulnerable to the international winds that are blowing than it should be, the Coalition, also challenged by worldwide developments, have proposed policies that offer real, practical relief.
Economy will run out of gas without reservation policy
Labor remains deeply conflicted about gas, failing to appreciate its importance in sustaining the employment of many in the party’s traditional base.
There must be a reason parents send kids to private schools
The new boss NSW’s education department has publicly wondered whether private schools should exist at all. There are tens of thousands of parents who could enlighten him on this subject.
Problems that put mums, bubs at risk demand urgent action
Bombshell research has highlighted serious problems in our health system – problems that put Australian mothers and their babies at risk and need urgent attention.
Xi quick to engage in Trump’s battle of ‘strongman’ wills
China’s leader has a historical obsession so chilling that, as with the US President’s most shocking statements, many hope it is not meant to be taken literally.
Why the AFL wants a Perth NRL team
The tactics that Peter V’landys used so successfully on the eastern seaboard have not gone down well in the west, taking his eye off the real game in the code war.
Markets will recover, but do you have time for that?
Are we looking at a crash or a V-shaped recovery? Learn the six things every investor should know.
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Will Pucovski had all the time in the world … until he didn’t
In a game of “what ifs”, Will Pucovski could not only have been one of the game’s great batters but also captains.
Tariffs or not, value always wins in the end
We’ve seen markets behave similarly during Covid and the GFC, and good value stocks always retain their appeal — even if investors must be more discerning.
Superstar Schroder has work to do
Paul Schroder, the boss of Australia’s largest super fund, has a major challenge ahead to develop AustralianSuper into a member-service-driven payments company.
Coalition gas policy should be a game changer. Win or lose, it should have bipartisan support
Gas policy should transform the game and rid the nation of the absurdity that Australians are paying a premium for LNG while the mining companies extracting and refining it are paying next to nothing.
Khamenei is ready for a nuclear fight: The question is – is Trump?
The US fails to understand that for the Supreme Leader, getting bombed is preferable to giving up the bomb. He and his mullahs believe Trump’s return to power increases the importance of atomic arms.
Lambo series a grand day out for ordinary billionaires
Last weekend, when you were glued to Max Verstappen’s F1 masterclass at Suzuka, the racing series for people with half a mill or so to throw around roared to life in Goulburn.
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