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Facts in, garbage out: Why the RBA needs functional finance

As cost-of-living pressures mount, critics argue Australia’s inflation response is worsening the ...  
Trump now placed to end U.S. democracy

Bit by bit, Trump’s efforts to undermine, steal or even cancel the mid-term elections are taking ...  
Before the marches: They were already here

Muslim men who stopped to pray five times a day in the red dust of the Australian interior did the ...  
Federal Budget reveals Australia’s mounting digital technical debt

The Budget focuses on maintaining increasingly complex digital systems, managing cyber risk and ...  
Why political diversity lags as ethnic diversity rises in Australia

An examination of immigration, demographics, media influence and electoral systems asks whether ...  
Nature on life support: Budget cuts fuel biodiversity crisis

Labor’s Budget priorities are under fire as conservation groups warn biodiversity funding cuts ...  
Caroline Graham’s enduring legacy of resistance and activism

The life and legacy of activist Caroline Graham reflects decades of struggle across feminism ...  
Indexing income tax scales — another bad idea from the Coalition

The Coalition’s plan to index income tax scales to inflation may sound fair on paper, but ...  
Functional finance: The cure for inflation without unemployment

An alternative economic model could tackle inflation through fiscal policy instead of interest ...  
Labor Government playing dicey politics with immigration management

The Government’s reluctance to confront mounting visa backlogs and migration pressures risks ...  
Four more things Australia can do to arrest house prices

Australia’s housing crisis is often blamed on tax incentives like negative gearing and the CGT ...  
Albanese’s springboard for even greater triumphs

Last week’s courageous budget could portend an era of substantial achievement.  
Breaking cycles of disadvantage: Australia versus global economic models

Breaking cycles of disadvantage is a test of a society’s commitment to fairness and human ...  
Gold for Australia! How 'people power' toppled Trump's GC Tower

Craig Hill, the man who brought the Trump Tower crumbling down, explains how he – along with ...  
JEFF MCMULLEN:  Sleeping rough in the "Lucky Country"

To achieve any semblance of equality in Australia, we urgently need greater ambition, creative ...  
Curated accounts conveyed to Royal Commission without context

Hyperpartisan accounts of curated, centred lived experience omit key facts at the Royal Commission ...  
Happy 125th birthday to the Commonwealth of Australia

The 9th of May is a beautiful time of the year, with breezy, high-skied blue days around Austra ...  
One Nation under Trump: Pauline Hanson's MAGA moment

After One Nation's David Farley recently won the Farrer by-election, Senator Pauline Hanson took ...  
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