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Trump's dictatorship is a fait accompli

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Moving to Canada

Armistice Day

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The 35 hour week is overdue

Consolation

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Education and Training for the Modern Labour Market

Time to renationalise electricity transmission

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The end of US democracy: a flowchart

Some thoughts on the housing crisis

Deputy sheriff or imperial outpost ?

Expanding coal mines – and reaching net zero? Tanya Plibersek seems to believe both are possible

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The death of the book, again

The US just lost a war, and no one noticed

Assessing Albanese

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In their plaintive call for a return to the office, CEOs reveal how little they are needed

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The Australian states are natural political units

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Help to Buy ...

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We or They

The implausibility of a Taiwan blockade

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Researchers analysed 1,500 climate policies to find what works. These are the lessons for Australia

Chalmers is more in touch with the economy than the RBA

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Academic nepo babies?

Australians should be angry about Coles’ latest billion-dollar profit. But don’t blame the cost of living

The RBA is making confusion about inflation and the cost of living even worse

Gina Rinehart’s latest grab-bag of opinions is more proof billionaires are no smarter than the rest of us (corrected)

Gina Rinehart’s latest grab-bag of opinions is more proof billionaires are no smarter than the rest of us

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Young men aren't shifting right ...

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The not-so-strange shortage of conservative professors

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After Neoliberalism

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The Chairman's Lounge view of the airline industry

AI won’t use as much electricity as we are told

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Ask me anything (for this week)

Ask me anything (from last week)

The era of privatisation is nearly over. But cleaning up the mess left behind will take years

Getting old and being old

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Czech nuclear deal shows CSIRO GenCost is too optimistic, and new nukes are hopelessly uneconomic

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Achieving net zero with renewables or nuclear means rebuilding the hollowed-out public service after decades of cuts

Why neither growth nor degrowth make sense as long-term objectives for Australia’s economy

Be careful what you wish for

ANZ’s $4.9 billion Suncorp takeover will now go ahead.

Peter Dutton has promised to solve our energy problems – but his nuclear policy still leaves Australians in the dark

Sex, lies and Videotape

Low inflation targeting is such a dubious idea. Why did the Reserve Bank adopt it in the first place?

Coming soon from an AI near you

Updated: The European far right has abandoned nationalism ...

The edge of extinction

The Left and THE LEFT

After neoliberalism

It’s time to give Labor’s first term a scorecard – have we actually seen any transformative vision?

Ross Gittins

Bonza is the latest victim of Australian neoliberalism. It’s hard to see a new airline arriving any time soon

PM must pick his winners with more care

Machines and Tools

The war to end war, still going on

Aircraft noise

Naval power and expertise

Metallurgical coal is coming to the end of the road

Wenar on why you shouldn’t try to help poor people

Olympics 2032: Can Brisbane come out a winner?

Australia now has a $70 ‘shadow price’ on carbon emissions.

Dutton’s decaying nuclear energy plans have the briefest half-life

Four-day work weeks are inevitable

Big business in Australia faces less competition than almost anywhere else

Australia must wean itself from monster utes ...

Daniel Kahneman has died

Navies are obsolete ...

The Australian Grand Prix is expecting a record turnout — but how does it benefit Victoria?

Grand Prix or booby prize ?

Towards deliberative Parliaments

On nuclear, Coalition prefers the optimism of misleading, decade-old, unverified claims

From micro to macro, Andrew Leigh’s accessible history covers the economic essentials

Old

Dutton wants a ‘mature debate’ about nuclear power. By the time we’ve had one, new plants will be too late to replace coal

Back to the office: a solution in search of a problem

Light-touch competition policy hasn’t helped Australian mortgage holders. It’s time to get tough

Some good news from Australia

For corporations, greed is good – so how can Australia really tackle price gouging?

Labor’s fuel-efficiency standards may settle the ute dispute – but there are still hazards on the road

Irresistible Force meets Immovable Object

On the rectification of names

The end of maritime power

The Stage 3 tax cuts are dead, long live the Stage 3a cuts

Why not go the long way around?

Learn to code

Won't somebody think of the old people?

Last rites for the efficient financial markets hypothesis

As the billionaires gather at Davos, it’s worth examining what’s become of their dreams

Mute inglorious Miltons

Australia’s cost-of-living crisis isn’t about the price of groceries. It’s about wealth distribution

The gallon loaf

New Year Gifts