Editorial

The political battle for Australia’s future energy network has just gone nuclear.

Energy policy is no place for ideological zealotry

EDITORIAL: Once upon a time, fear of nuclear was justified. Now, technology has come a long way, but Labor’s attitudes remain rooted in the Seventies. 

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The parent companies of Facebook, Google and Tiktok face paying hundreds of millions of dollars to the government unless they strike fresh deals with media companies to pay for news content.

Democracy depends on reliable, trustworthy news

EDITORIAL: Why are tech giants squabbling over being asked to pay a fair price for the news content created and paid for by Australian publishers which they then use to turn a profit?

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Anthony Albanese says every child will be able to attend childcare for at least three days a week.

Prime Minister hoping for clear air on child care poll pitch

EDITORIAL: Child care is all Anthony Albanese wants to talk about. The problem for him is that the rest of the country is keen to talk about other issues. 

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Michele Bullock, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia.

More to the economic picture than rates policy 

EDITORIAL: With BBQ season heating up, there will be plenty more talk about what’s going right or wrong with the economy...

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People gather outside the Adass Israel Synagogue after a firebombing in Melbourne, Monday, December 9, 2024.

Descent into terrorism could cost Albo his job

EDITORIAL: When the nation needs you, as leader, you should do everything you can to be there. Yet as of Monday, Mr Albanese still hadn’t made it to Ripponlea to support and reassure the Jewish community.

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Victorian and national leaders have condemned the arson attack on a Melbourne synagogue.

Synagogue attack follows failure to tackle anti-Semitism

EDITORIAL: After we feel revulsion at what has taken place we need to ask are we surprised? Sadly the answer is that we probably are not.

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Westfarmers chief executive Rob Scott.

Rampant unions show why Federal IR laws must be wound back

EDITORIAL: It is clear that what the nation needs now is an economic defibrillator. But instead we are getting a union-applied handbrake.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has chosen to turn his back not only on Israel, but also the US, our key ally, and support an “irreversible pathway” to a Palestinian state.

Australia’s Israel backflip may come at a grave cost

EDITORIAL: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has chosen to turn his back not only on Israel, but also the US, our key ally, and support an ‘irreversible pathway’ to a Palestinian state.

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Public trust in the Government is currently on a par with the Morrison administration as it emerged from the torrid lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Slide in public trust a new post-election pointer

EDITORIAL: A new voter survey by the Australian National University adds another piece to the electoral puzzle.

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A day that should be about our multicultural nation coming together, is increasingly tearing us apart.

Australia Day should be one we can all drink to

EDITORIAL: Australia Day should be a day where we unite and celebrate everything that is good about our great nation. Instead, it has become the most divisive date on the calendar.

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EDITORIAL: It is deeply concerning that the rush of legislation depended on cutting a deal with the extremist Greens. 

Australians suffer in mad legislative scramble

EDITORIAL: It is deeply concerning that the rush of legislation depended on cutting a deal with the extremist Greens. 

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Santos was ordered to stop work on the 262km pipeline in November last year.

The cynical EDO erodes Australians’ faith in the system

EDITORIAL: The Santos decision is an important step in restoring the balance to environmental law, which in recent years has tipped too far in the activists’ favour. 

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EDITORIAL: Reliable energy supply is key to maintaining living standards and keeping the economy ticking over. We can’t allow a relentless, ideological focus on renewables to leave us in the dark. 

How will Sydney cope when summer really hits?

EDITORIAL: Reliable energy supply is key to maintaining living standards and keeping the economy ticking over. We can’t allow a relentless, ideological focus on renewables to leave us in the dark. 

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Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek.

Redundant EPA will strangle productivity 

EDITORIAL: Global uncertainty means our Government should be doing everything it can to create an agile investment environment with speedy approval processes, not strangling industry with more green tape. 

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EDITORIAL: Suddenly yanking social media away from kids and then expecting them to have the digital literacy to navigate it upon turning 16 is a fool’s errand which could potentially create greater risks.

Blasting kids into past with social ban will fail

EDITORIAL: Suddenly yanking social media away from kids and then expecting them to have the digital literacy to navigate it upon turning 16 is a fool’s errand which could potentially create greater risks.

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