Want honesty in politics? Teals should ditch the big-spending hypocrisy
Never in the field of political conflict has so much been invested by so many to protect the vested interests of so few.
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Here’s how Trump hopes his plan will play out
In President Donald Trump’s perfect world, a 10 per cent tariff on imports would eventually become the norm, creating a global GST that lowers taxes on income. But the pain is very real now.
Trapped amid the market carnage
Every sign is that Donald Trump’s tariff policy will not work and instead inflict grave damage on the US economy and the world.
‘Devastating blow’: Trump goes rogue before the world
The immediate task is to stay calm, keep making the trade argument for a concession but take the essential leap to greater defence self-reliance.
Our welfare addiction is killing Australia
It’s self-evidently a good thing to help genuinely disabled people. Australians don’t begrudge that. But the NDIS is perhaps the worst designed public policy initiative in Australian history.
Return of the tariff man: why trade protection wins hearts and minds in America
The impetus behind Donald Trump’s tariffs is not difficult to understand when seen against the carnage caused to the US by cheap imports and a predatory China.
‘Big Australia’ is over yet home hangover remains
Population growth has eased but we still need a surge in housing supply.
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Gazans, ‘the bravest people on Earth’, confront Hamas
Protests in Gaza have virtually no chance of overthrowing Hamas, but they have potentially momentous implications for Israeli policy towards the strip.
This battler seat buried the Yes campaign. Could it witness the birth of a Dutton government?
If Tony Abbott is right, and the residents of Adelaide’s gritty north stump for Peter Dutton, the battle will not only be over for the Coalition. The war also will have been won.
Maybe the liberal world order was always an illusion
The fundamental ideas that grounded us are shifting, for better or for worse. What is for sure; we will miss America when it is gone.
Keen renewables promoter, flop as energy minister
There is nothing that the left in Australia likes more than high-profile Liberals who turn on the institution that made them politically famous.
Social media influencers dumb down the election
Voters face a serious choice in perilous times – yet political debate has never been so frivolous.
A tale of two fleets: gunboat diplomacy in an era of rising military power
The parallels between the visits to Australia of Teddy Roosevelt’s Great White Fleet in 1908 and Xi Jinping’s Chinese flotilla in 2025 could not be more stark.
Go to bed with Greens, wake up to a toxic society
When Adam Bandt, with his twisted logic, blames Israel for the despicable actions of Hamas you know you are entering an alternative reality.
Trump’s bold plan to reawaken the American dream
There may be a degree of method in the US President’s tariff madness, but higher domestic prices are a hard sell to voters.
‘Rare gift worth the burden’: the struggle of being Jewish
If anti-Semitism is not managed effectively we will find ourselves in a spiral we can no longer exit.
An insiders’ guide to the radical left’s march through our institutions
This abuse of power and exploitation of young university students is committed by the same group of academics who rail against abusive power structures in our society – and taxpayers are stumping up for the hypocrisy.
Spills, thrills and a new mother’s chills on the campaign trail
Peter Dutton did his best tradie impersonation in a high-vis hit-out, while Anthony Albanese took the fall but held onto a precious arrival during a week marked by a liberating announcement.
It’s hard to score political points when you’re Mr Me Too
Peter Dutton faces a difficult task cutting through with a clear election message as he comes under maximum pressure from Anthony Albanese.
Team Labor: frightening the electorate since 1975
Fifty years ago, Labor claimed Malcolm Fraser was a ‘right-winger’ who had a ‘secret agenda’ to attack basic services including health. Sound familiar?
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