When a society forgets the difference between learning and performance, between a mind and a computer algorithm, the result isn’t progress; it’s parody.
The government has been rightly blamed for fuelling the inflation flames with too rapid growth of its own spending. This has come not just from the federal government but from several state governments as well.
The decisions that made higher rates unavoidable were taken in Canberra. If inflation is the fire, interest rates are the fire brigade. Labor lit the match.
Jim Chalmers doesn’t have a central bank governor to blame for his forward misguidance or for his complaint that monetary policy may be “smashing the economy”.
Morrison deserves credit for insisting accusations of Islamophobia must not shut down necessary debate. But if this conversation is to lead anywhere constructive, it must move beyond symbolic architecture and confront a harder truth
The problem is not academic freedom itself. The problem is that universities have forgotten what it means and, just as importantly, what it does not.
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 …