Tariffs, shares, bonds and China’s ‘nuclear option’. Making sense of Trump mayhemBy Kim Wingerei and Michael West | April 9, 2025Donald Trump has declared a trade war, the share market is down, and US treasury bond yields are up. But how did ...
Big banks tap households – micropayments the growth revenue streamBy Andrew Gardiner | April 8, 2025Fees garnered from household expenditure increased by 11% last financial year, mainly from personal loans and ...
Politics trumps national interest. Labor wedged over Port of Darwin farceBy Michael Pascoe | April 7, 2025Neither of the major parties came out of the weekend’s Port of Darwin farce well. Both played pathetic local ...
IDF courts Australian universities amid anti-war protestsBy Wendy Bacon and Yaakov Aharon | April 5, 2025This week, hundreds of university staff and students in Melbourne and Sydney called on their Vice-Chancellors to ...
Housing affordability. The crisis the major parties are too scared to fixBy Harry Chemay | April 4, 2025Housing affordability is a big issue for many Australians. Both the major parties claim to want to fix it, but ...
Tariff war. The world keeps turning despite Trump’s mayhemBy Michael Pascoe | April 3, 2025As crazy as Trump’s tariff mania is, the world will keep turning with not as much damage as the headlines have us ...
Immigration. A manufactured crisis of politics over policyBy Fethi Mansouri and Amanuel Elias | April 3, 2025A so-called Australian immigration crisis is a central election issue, but it's based on misconceptions easily ...
Rupiah down. Sharemarket down. Prabowo doing a Trump on the quiet?By Duncan Graham | April 1, 2025Six months into his five-year term, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is focused on militarising his ...
Secret AUKUS nuclear waste site docs in Cabinet lockdownBy Rex Patrick | March 31, 2025The Federal Government has successfully managed to bury, for twenty years, a report into where and how high-level ...
Turnbull Press Club summit: Trump 2.0 means it’s time to strengthen DefenceBy Rex Patrick | March 31, 2025With Donald Trump overturning assumptions about international order, we must re-examine the fundamentals of our ...
Dutton’s gas reservation plan more about politics than priceBy Kim Wingerei | March 30, 2025Peter Dutton's plan to introduce a gas reservation scheme on the East Coast may be good politics, but industry ...
The alternative government: one good idea in a pit of TrumpinessBy Michael Pascoe | March 28, 2025It was called a Budget reply, but the name was meaningless. Peter Dutton’s Thursday night effort was his election ...
China or America. Who is the warmonger?By Richard Cullen | March 28, 2025The US wants us to believe we should be scared of China, buy nuclear subs to help fight her, and increase our ...
Trade in a time of genocide. Our exports to Israel growing fastBy Kellie Tranter | March 26, 2025In defiance of international rulings to boycott Israel for its ongoing violence and brutal occupation of ...
Lendlease. Drains taxpayer, does cosy deal, drains whistleblowerBy Michael West | March 25, 2025Former Lendlease lawyer Tony Watson saved the country $300m as whistleblower to the biggest tax fraud in ...