Editorial

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has made a colossal hash of the negotiations to get its promised environmental regulator up that it had no choice but to kick the can down the road a bit. 

Plibersek’s Nature Positive ultimatum backfires

EDITORIAL: If you believe the Government’s reasoning for its Nature Positive legislation being yanked from the Senate notice paper, there’s a bridge in Brooklyn you might be interested in purchasing...

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Protesters confront police during an anti-war rally outside a weapons expo in Melbourne.

Violent ‘anti-war’ protesters show rank hypocrisy

EDITORIAL: The actions of the 1500 or so cerebrally-challenged crusaders who brought chaos and disorder to Melbourne’s CBD served only to further alienate their movement from the Australian mainstream.

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Dr Chalmers’ list of priorities reads: 1. Avoid recession. 2. Daylight. 3. Do something about inflation, if we manage to find time.

Desperate Chalmers prolonging household pain

EDITORIAL: Jim Chalmers is desperate to avoid being the Treasurer who sent Australia into a recession. Things were so much easier when he got to be the surplus guy.

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EDITORIAL: The three-year royal commission into defence and veteran suicide has ripped open festering wounds and revealed a darkness within Australia’s most revered institution.

Defence’s day of reckoning must not be ignored

EDITORIAL: The three-year royal commission into defence and veteran suicide has ripped open festering wounds and revealed a darkness within Australia’s most revered institution.

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Former treasurer Wayne Swan has joined in the attack on the RBA.

Labor’s RBA pile-on betrays economic incompetence

EDITORIAL: If the goal of this coordinated smash-up is to intimidate Michele Bullock into bringing down interest rates early, Wayne Swan and Jim Chalmers are going to be disappointed. 

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The prime minister paid tribute to Bill Shorten for his 'energy, enthusiasm, ideas and ambition'.

Failures won’t erase Bill Shorten’s significant legacy

EDITORIAL: As a political assassin, Bill Shorten did not miss. But when his own chance finally came around, he wasted his shot.

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Is Mark Zuckerberg and Meta on a collision course with the open-source community over his company’s new AI models?

Tech companies must do more to keep kids safe

EDITORIAL: Meta says its solution isn’t a blame-shifting exercise but a way to create uniform standards to help keep children out of harm’s way. It’s also an admission that its apps aren’t safe for kids. 

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Every time ASIO boss Mike Burgess opens his, he creates more problems for the Government.

Gaza visa debacle is back to bite Prime Minister

EDITORIAL: Every time ASIO boss Mike Burgess opens his mouth, he creates more problems for the Government. 

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Instead of actually working at finding some solutions that would ease the cost-of-living pressures, Labor is preoccupied with finding someone else to blame, or providing sugar-hit “relief measures”.

Voters want cost-of-living solutions, not spin

EDITORIAL: Instead of actually working at finding some solutions that would ease the cost-of-living pressures, Labor is preoccupied with finding someone else to blame, or providing sugar-hit ‘relief measures’.

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Kamala Harris in her first major TV interview as the Democratic presidential nominee.

Wilfully boring Kamala Harris remains policy enigma

EDITORIAL: After watching her much-hyped prime-time interview, it’s not clear if even Kamala Harris herself knows what kind of president she wants to be.

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Resources Minister Madeleine King has sided with the unions against BHP.

King’s attack on BHP a worrying sign for mining industry

To borrow a phrase from Mineral Resources boss Chris Ellison, it’s the s.......t time for the nation to have a Resources Minister anything other than 100 per cent committed to keeping the industry strong. 

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Greens leader Adam Bandt.

‘Robin Hood’ super profits raid a twisted fairytale

It’s no surprise that the Greens’ flagship economic policy for next year’s election is mad, bad and dangerous.

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Australians have become used to Peter Dutton over two years as Opposition Leader. 

Why vicious attacks on Dutton could backfire on Labor

EDITORIAL: It’s doubtful that positioning Peter Dutton as a Trump-like figure will have any cut-through with voters. The fact is that Australians have become used to him over two years as Opposition Leader. 

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The Albanese Government’s right-to-disconnect legislation, which came into effect today, has severed that two-way flow that modern, hybrid work has created - especially since COVID.

These Right to Disconnect laws threaten flexibility

EDITORIAL: Most of us have been on the receiving end of an after-hours call, text or email from the boss at some point in our careers. And, generally, it’s no big deal.

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There’s no doubt the momentum and the enthusiasm are all in Kamala Harris’ corner at this stage in the presidential campaign. The trouble is, vibes may be, but she’s bee running low on policy detail.

Kamala Harris is big on vibes but short on policy

EDITORIAL: There’s no doubt the momentum is in Kamala Harris’ corner at this stage in the presidential campaign. The trouble is, vibes may be high, but she’s running low on policy detail.

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