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Getting ahead with leadership.

Modern Labor is losing the battle of ideas

Whatever their faults, former PMs Turnbull, Abbott and Keating were all driven to change things.

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Albert Bourla, chief executive officer of Pfizer Inc and board member of PhRMA, has long-standing links with US President Donald Trump.

Big pharma’s ill will

Trump’s move on the PBS has shown that the US alliance is over. We are now on our own.

Donald Trump has re-litigated America’s relationship with Europe, but he has undermined the Australian-US alliance.

Three cheers for Reaganomics in a sea of tariff storms

Ronald Reagan said that “trade strengthens the free world”, in 1988. Trump needs to heed that advice.

Illustration by Dionne Gain

Cometh the election hour, cometh the teals

While Labor and the Coalition are busy mud-slinging and one-upping each other, independent candidates and their volunteers are hard at work on the doorstep.

The fog of inflation is lifting.

Dutton plan: Free lunches, cuts to services

Stand by for the whole gamut of Trump’s MAGA suite of anti-government moves, which would make our lives more difficult.

Protesters gather outside the Northern Beaches Council meeting.

Liberals using ratepayers’ pain for political gain

The NSW Liberal Party is stating that if they had not made a mess of nominating Liberal Party candidates in the last local government elections on the northern beaches, the proposed 40 per cent rate rise would not be happening.

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Brandis’ reminder of previous pathetic governments

George Brandis had the gall to denounce Whitlam’s cabinet as “old dinosaurs and clueless eccentrics” but what of those who hid behind Scott Morrison, a reader writes.

Trump’s war on efforts to slow climate change futile

By doubling down on his cry to “drill, baby, drill” and removing all limits on America’s booming fossil fuel industry, the new president has once again declared war on the world’s climate mitigation efforts. But this is a war he can’t win.

NEWS: Generic train, public transport, railway, train driver, state rail, NSW Transport, Sydney Trains. October 30, 2023. Photo: Wolter Peeters, The Sydney Morning Herald.

Rail strike adds to the argument for driverless trains

Jennifer Giles was always mystified as to why Sydney would duplicate a perfectly good Bankstown rail line with a driverless metro line. Not any more

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

Back to (or building) the future?

It is both ironic and appropriate that Peter Dutton has chosen to copy the New Zealand Nationals’ election slogan of “Back on track”.

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