If Australia wants productivity growth, it needs to start in the classroom.
We’re not in danger of becoming a banana republic, like Paul Keating warned in 1986. But we are losing our exceptional prosperity and sliding back into the pack of other less prosperous developed economies.
Eraring’s recently announced extension until 2029 has highlighted the absurdity of two key government decisions to approve spending in the name of the energy transition.
Those still clinging to the claim that renewable energy is cheapest will look back at the end of 2025 as …
Instead of rushing to add new laws to an already swollen statute book, we should enforce rigorously and without hesitation the laws already in place.
What should Australia have done over the past two years to prevent this moment — and why was it not
done?
Taxpayers know all too well that massive increases in education funding (approaching $100 billion a year) have had little impact on results.
What we saw that Sunday at Bondi not only highlighted the immediate and palpable threats to Jewish communities in Australia but also signalled a greater sociopolitical undercurrent spreading across the Western world.
Whether Australia responds to the murders at Bondi with clarity or caution will reveal not only how it confronts antisemitism, but how seriously it takes the obligations of liberal democracy itself.
Tomago aluminium smelter’s latest subsidy deal represents a desperate attempt by the federal government to stick a band-aid solution on an economic bullet wound.