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Now Facebook’s owner has thrown the ball back into the government’s court and
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 * Mar 5, 2024

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ASEAN SUMMIT SIGNALS AUSTRALIA’S A TRUSTED PARTNER

Australia has a role to play in promoting “ASEAN centrality” in an open and
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THE LIBERALS GO DOWNMARKET AFTER DUNKLEY

The Coalition should have used the Sunday morning after Dunkley to start talking
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 * Mar 3, 2024

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NO PRODUCTIVITY REVOLUTION COMING FROM THE COUCH

Working from home to get through an emergency is not the same as the concerted
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 * Mar 1, 2024


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PHILIPPINES PARTNERS AUSTRALIA ON PEACE, STABILITY AND SUCCESS IN ASIA

President Marcos’s speech is in keeping with the tightening network of Asian
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intentions.

 * Feb 29, 2024

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DUNKLEY BYELECTION IS ABOUT NOTHING BUT POLITICS

A lot will be read into the implications of Saturday’s poll because it’s
essentially a purely political horse race short on substantial policy ambition.

 * Feb 28, 2024

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BOARD SEATS FOR SUPER RAISE GOVERNANCE ISSUES

Paul Keating’s 80th birthday interview raises the under-discussed issue of the
impact of the $3.6 trillion union-influenced superannuation funds on the
nation’s capital markets.

 * Feb 27, 2024

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GENDER PAY GAP CALLS FOR PROPER EXPLANATION TO MAXIMISE OPPORTUNITY

While business is not entirely to blame, there is clearly room for innovative
thinking about how corporates can tackle the cultural barriers to women working
different jobs at different times in different places for more pay.

 * Feb 27, 2024

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UNIVERSITY SUCCESS STARTS WITH FIXING SCHOOL PERFORMANCE FIRST

The Universities Accord social equity aspiration depends on students being ready
to study at a higher level after year 12.

 * Feb 25, 2024

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AS UKRAINE’S STOCKS FALL, STAKES GET HIGHER

Two years after Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion began, it’s not just about
whether Ukraine can avoid defeat but whether Europe can defend itself

 * Feb 23, 2024

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BOLD NAVY PLAN NEEDS BACKING WITH HARD CASH

Australia reaped a resources bonanza from China’s rise as the workshop to the
world. Now some of that needs to be redirected as a national security insurance
premium.

 * Feb 22, 2024

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AT 80, KEATING KEEPS THROWING DOWN THE GAUNTLET

Not everyone will agree with the former PM on AUKUS. Yet all should agree that a
more independent security posture would not be sustainable if Australia
continued to squander its opportunity of prosperity.

 * Feb 21, 2024

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MERGER RULING, MINER CUT THROUGH THE POPULIST POLICY MADNESS

Amid the stew of populist hysteria around banks, miners, supermarkets and
stevedores, two clear voices have blasted through the policy incoherence.

 * Feb 20, 2024

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CORPORATES SHOULD FOCUS ON BEING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF CUSTOMERS

Any social licence credits supposedly built up by supporting the Voice have
counted for nothing, as Coles and Woolworths are now portrayed as profiteering
pariahs at the eye of the cost-of-living political storm.

 * Feb 19, 2024


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VOTERS INDIFFERENT TO TAX CUTS, WORRIED ABOUT CRIME

The spring put in Anthony Albanese’s step by the redesigned stage three personal
income tax cuts has not produced a big leap in Labor’s standing.

 * Feb 19, 2024

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ONCE A KGB THUG…

During the Cold War, many on the political left in Western countries looked
through the repression of the Russian people. Today, the moral equivalence of
Russia’s “useful idiots” is on the populist political right.

 * Feb 18, 2024

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MIDDLE EAST WAR DOES NOT EXCUSE AN ANCIENT PREJUDICE

Jews are again the subject of hostility and conspiracy theories that no other
group has to face. It has happened too quickly and easily.

 * Feb 16, 2024

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POLITICIANS SHOULD NOT POLICE THE CORPORATE COP

The recent dysfunction at the very top of ASIC opens up the question of how to
sanction independent regulators.

 * Feb 15, 2024

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AUSTRALIA’S HIGH-COST NICKEL BUST

The truth we are discovering is that neither new nor old world mining do very
well when the basic policies are not right.

 * Feb 15, 2024

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