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Chalmers came to Sydney, left his humility in Canberra

The treasurer promotes the national security benefits of protectionism, but can’t explain how his government can find better investments than the...

01.05.2024 10

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Albanese’s investment fund doesn’t want to pick winners?

The new $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund is already doing strange things, including holding its first two board meetings on the same day.

23.04.2024 30

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Musk wants $87b. Tesla’s Aussie chair is defying a court to help him

Robyn Denholm is asking investors to over-rule a judge who cancelled the biggest pay package in history for an AWOL chief executive.

18.04.2024 40

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Albanese is setting the Labor Party up for failure

The prime minister’s Future Made in Australia plan is part of a shift to bigger government and higher taxes that will sap support for the government...

12.04.2024 20

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Sayers knows the importance of trust. Has he lost his in PwC scandal?

The former chief executive came off badly from a Senate inquiry, undermining years spent carefully cultivating a reputation for integrity.

01.04.2024 7

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Another win for the monopolists

A law to shield pharmacists from competition will take Queensland back to the last century.

26.03.2024 5

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The five worst decisions this century by politicians

Important lessons can be learned from foreseeable stuff-ups that were so bad that the leaders who made them don’t deserve to be forgiven.

20.03.2024 10

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Sexual harassment is being used to shape business culture

Directors who don’t follow the Human Rights Commission’s anti-establishment directives are taking a big risk.

13.03.2024 2

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An uber NIMBY fights Balmain development from Martha’s Vineyard

Celebrated writer Geraldine Brooks epitomises a movement that opposes apartments to protect their privileged suburbs.

29.01.2024 5

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The law’s veneration of Indigenous mythology has gone too far

Judges should give up blocking valuable projects based on stories passed through generations that can’t be proven or are myths.

18.01.2024 5

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He called for political integrity. Will he defend a Jewish cricketer?

Cricket Australia chairman Mike Baird wants leaders to do what is right, not popular. So why isn’t he defending a Jewish cricketer who supported...

15.01.2024 10

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What I wish I’d known when I started university

With the new academic year around the corner, one writer reflects on bad higher-education choices.

05.01.2024 10

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I’m ashamed of Harvard, a university I loved

University administrators and academics have allowed a cult of anti-Jewish activism to flourish under the banner of anti-colonialism.

08.12.2023 10

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Why Ray Dalio should not be venerated

He created the world’s biggest hedge fund at Bridgewater Associates. But the business operated a cult-like psychodrama under his leadership.

03.12.2023 10

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The public servant being paid to hold back Sydney

NSW’s Heritage Council, under chairman Frank Howarth, opposes one of the most important developments planned for central Sydney.

26.11.2023 10

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Liberal Party is tired of Crosby Textor politics

A report into this year’s NSW election loss concludes the party needs to adapt to younger voters and drop campaign approaches from the Howard era.

17.11.2023 7

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Israel lobby watches Penny Wong, and worries

After spending years investing in their relationships with the foreign minister, Jewish leaders are nervous she is being swayed by pro-Palestinian...

17.11.2023 30

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A left-wing editor and Jew despairs over his industry

Former Age editor-in-chief Michael Gawenda wants journalists to give claims by Israel more credence than those of Hamas.

12.11.2023 10

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The architects holding back Sydney

The veneration of 1950s office design is going to leave a large, decaying tower empty for years.

30.10.2023 20

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A young reporter’s unpleasant experience of country politics

A 26-year-old journalist, Zoe Askew, was banned from playing for her regional soccer club after she reported on what she felt was poor conduct by a...

18.10.2023 5

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Australians didn’t want a new, black elite

Leaders in politics, business, the law and academia wrongly believed they could use their power to help a profoundly disadvantaged group.

15.10.2023 6

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