Today
Conflict concerns at Kean advising government and rich investors
Former NSW treasurer Matt Kean has defended taking dual roles as a federal government climate change adviser and at a private green investment fund led by a former Macquarie banker.
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- John Kehoe
- Opinion
- China relations
High-level dialogue shows China chill is ending
The resumed annual face-to-face meeting of government and industry has been crucial to stabilising the relationship.
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- Craig Emerson
Yesterday
New ageing minister held ageing stocks
Anthony Albanese’s addition to the Ministerial Code of Conduct has caused problems for a raft of his ministers.
- Myriam Robin
PM’s election slogan must be: Get productivity moving again
Readers’ letters on productivity; Labor’s Future Made in Australia policy; the Qantas board; the passing of Orica, Woodside director Gene Tilbrook; and Olympic breaking.
This Month
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Can our prosperity survive a year of political madness?
Public policy is now swinging in the populist wind. And it’s hard to imagine the election of a government that can rationally take back control of it all.
- Michael Stutchbury
- Opinion
- Canberra Observed
Short-term politics won’t leave sustainable childcare legacy
Five years ago, Labor promised to subsidise childcare wages and was howled down. Now, it hardly moves the dial.
- Phillip Coorey
PM hints at universal childcare by middle of next term
Childcare fees could continue to be capped in return for long-term government wage subsidies.
- Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- Australian economy
RBA returns serve on inflation
The RBA’s take down of government spending is reverberating loudly in Canberra and can only undermine Labor’s key argument that its fiscal policy complements monetary policy.
- Jennifer Hewett
Voice architect fears Indigenous policy ‘deja vu’ trap
Uluru Dialogue co-chairwoman Pat Anderson warned Labor not to throw its promise of a Makarrata commission “out with the referendum bathwater”.
- Tom McIlroy
Labor working ‘arm-in-arm’ with RBA on inflation, Albanese insists
The prime minister has pushed back on claims that federal government spending is making it harder for the Reserve Bank to tame inflation.
- Tom McIlroy
Labor’s silence is TikTok’s boon
The federal government may have banned TikTok on government-issued devices, but the Australian public has been left to its own devices.
- Max Mason
Labor’s $3.6b pre-election pay boost for childcare workers
The government will fund a 15 per cent, $3.6 billion pay rise for child care workers over the next two years on the proviso their employers agree to limit fee increases until after the election.
- Phillip Coorey
Cannon-Brookes, Turnbull-backed solar maker cuts staff, replaces CEO
SunDrive, which also counts Blackbird as an investor, is restructuring its business at the same time as it courts global partners to expand its operations.
- Ben Potter
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Future Made in Australia is already running off the rails
The Albanese government has fallen into the trap of trying to achieve political wins at high economic cost. And nobody is stopping them.
- John Kehoe
Frustration, confusion and Andrew Tate driving extremism in the young
Extremism experts warn that young men are becoming radicalised after looking to social media for simple answers to complicated economic and social questions.
- Gus McCubbing
PM not tough enough on Iranian envoy: Libs
Ambassador Ahmad Sadeghi has hit out a “Zionist plague”, describing Hamas’ commitment to the “wiping out” of Israel by 2027 as a “heavenly and divine promise”.
- Phillip Coorey
- Analysis
- National security
The politics of grievance has become something more sinister
Ever since 9/11, terror alerts and politics have been inseparable, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t substance behind them either.
- Phillip Coorey
- Updated
- Gas
Woodside’s $30b Browse LNG project faces EPA knockback threat
The recommendation is not final and could be reversed after further negotiations, but a final rejection would be a blow to Labor’s long-term gas strategy.
- Updated
- Ben Potter, Tom Rabe and Brad Thompson
PM’s Indigenous economic plan ‘not enough’
Businessman and Voice advocate Sean Gordon says many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities are not well placed to benefit from renewables development.
- Tom McIlroy
Dead email address for CFMEU evidence a ‘technical issue’, Allan says
The Victorian premier has defended Labor’s investigation into illegal activity in the construction industry against claims it is a “smokescreen”.
- Gus McCubbing and James Hall
