Opinions
OPINION
Business groups want the government to overhaul the tax system? Excellent – we have some ideas
The landslide win by the ALP has seen business groups come out demanding the government listen to their demands despite having provided them no support, and plenty of opposition, over the past 3 years.
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Expensive, publicly-funded Carbon Capture & Storage is barely visible in new emissions data
The Australian government needs to put a stop to new coal and gas projects, instead of granting operators new ways to shuffle pieces on the board, and CCS offsets simply shouldn’t exist.
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What matters for the country is not that differences of opinion exist in political parties, but how those differences are managed
The Australian Labor Party is as much a broad church as John Howard once proclaimed the Liberal Party to be.
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The Productivity Commission is floating AI copyright exemptions – with worrying implications for Australian authors and publishers
Australia can be a leader in this space, not a follower.
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Donald Trump cannot make the Epstein files go away. Will this be the story that brings him down?
Conspiracy theories are funny things.
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A fair go for temporary workers from the Pacific
On a whistlestop tour of Fiji, Tonga, and Vanuatu in May, Foreign Minister Penny Wong wanted to focus on climate change, security, and aid funding.
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Let’s rethink Australia’s national security – and focus on fairness and climate action, not blind fealty to the US
The America we thought we knew is not coming back. America in 2028 will be different, perhaps worse. And Australians, along with much of the world, are eager for something different.
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The rise of early voting in Australian elections
Are voters missing out on more than their democracy sausage?
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One way to improve the 'dumpster fire of dumb stuff' which is Australia’s housing policy
Everyone agrees we need to do something about housing in Australia. But first we need to ask a very obvious, but often ignored question: what is housing is for?
