Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton both agree Australia should react to US President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff regime by continuing to seek...
Leading man of 1990s Hollywood, Val Kilmer, has died at 65 from pneumonia. Battling cancer since 2014, he has not been a frequent presence on our...
The Labor party on Wednesday will urge the Fair Work Commission to grant a real wage increase to Australian workers on awards. This goes further than...
President Donald Trump told an NBC interviewer on March 30, 2025, that he was “not joking” about a third term as president, despite such a term...
There’s plenty of speculation about what has caused Australia’s housing crisis and what can be done to fix it, but Governments of all persuasions just aren’t...
Taiwan is a real surprise package. For a small tropical island of just 23 million people it has become the centre of the world’s semiconductor industry....
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has described the income tax cuts in this week’s federal budget as a “top-up”. They will amount to roughly one cup of coffee...
The context. This is the budget that nobody wanted. It was only necessary because of the partial delay in the calling of the election due to...
A ‘modest’ tax bribe, delivered against dark clouds of Trump-induced uncertainty Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra The Albanese government’s fourth budget is a pitch for the...
The Australian economy has changed dramatically since 2000 – the way we work now is radically different John Quiggin, The University of Queensland The most striking feature...
As the United States recalibrates its trade policies to combat what the Trump administration sees as “unfair” treatment by other countries, two significant industries have complained...
First, the tariffs from China hit Australian exporters now it’s the Trump tariffs on steel and aluminium – and as we have just learnt there will...
Since the start of the pandemic in 2020, many of Australia’s property markets have experienced some extraordinary price growth. Many locations, both city-based and regional, achieved...
In a scene that could have been scripted in the Kremlin, the Oval Office clash between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has laid...
This weekend, Australia’s National Rugby League (NRL) continues to trumpet its now annual pilgrimage to open its season in Las Vegas. While it’s only the second...
