Monday, April 20, 2026
ECONOMY

Is China Expansionist?

China’s emergence as a great power has prompted many fears that it will start to become aggressive and militaristic. But while European powers have acted this way historically, China’s own long history tells us...
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COAL

Times have changed

Veteran economist and one-time Bob Hawke adviser Ross Garnaut put forward some Very Big Ideas in last night’s Jobs and Skills Summit keynote address, in which he called on the government to use the...
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ECONOMY

Mutually assured corruption

What is most curious about John Barilaro is the honesty of his politics. Not in the conventional sense of integrity or commitment to the people he represents, but in the way that the truth...
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BUSINESS

Small government and free markets – ideology or greed?

At a small event at the Productivity Commission last week, visiting Nobel Prize-winning American economist Joseph Stiglitz was talking about revolution. He said the free market and small government ideology that has had America and...
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ECONOMY

Farewell to print — a billionaire plaything finally hits the wall

The Australian printing and magazine business has been a plaything of various billionaires over the years, from the Murdochs to the Packers to Kerry Stokes and the lesser known Hannan family. Yesterday ASX-listed company...
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CORONAVIRUS

Why is the government ignoring expert advice on Covid?

There is an old joke about the global search for a one-armed economist, because when asked for an opinion the answer is often, “on the one hand … and then on the other”. It...
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ECONOMY

The territory ahead of the states: ACT streaks to the fore on progressive policy

To those who equate the ACT and federal governments as one and the same, it will come as a shock that, short of location-location, the two could not be further apart. The ACT government achieved...
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ECONOMY

‘Wellbeing’. It’s why Labor’s first budget will have more rigour than any before it

‘Wellbeing’. It’s why Labor’s first budget will have more rigour than any before it Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University What if the most important thing in Jim Chalmers’ first budget is...
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