Australia’s leaders are trying to avoid becoming a target in a harsher, more coercive world. But silence and caution can’t substitute for strategy – or for honest leadership that levels with the public.
British Conservative lawmaker Suella Braverman, who was home secretary — the UK equivalent to interior minister — between 2022 and 2023, has joined Nigel Farage's populist Reform UK party.
Moscow and Washington will not engage in dialogue with Brussels’ foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.
Peskov made the remarks after the US, Russia and Ukraine concluded their first round of three-way negotiations in Abu Dhabi on Saturday. EU officials have complained that, despite providing military and financial aid to Kiev, the bloc has been largely excluded from the talks.
Australia’s housing market is an unmitigated disaster on almost every metric. Cotality’s latest housing affordability report showed that dwelling values relative to household incomes were tracking at a record high of 8.2 in the September quarter of 2025: The ratio of mortgage payments to household income was tracking at a near record high of 45.0%
Global warming is one of the biggest challenges faced by humanity today. As emissions continue to rise, global temperatures keep breaking records and the world's poorest nations bear the brunt of a crisis they did little to create.
Time to fix responsibility for climate change
By Hu Yong | CHINA DAILY
This is one of the most depressing Australia Days I can remember. We are still recovering from the horror of the Bondi massacre and the disgraceful jostling for political advantage that followed it. Meanwhile, the news is that opposition is hardening on changing the date to one less offensive to First Nations people. The actual shifts aren’t that great in statistical terms, but there’s no doubt that this shift, along with the rise of One Nation reflects something real.
French giants dominate offshore wind licences out west, but none offered in Illawarra or Bass Strait
Three projects totalling up to 4 gigawatts offered feasibility licences in W.A., but the Illawarra and Bass Strait miss out.
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A $20 million national ad campaign raising awareness of Australian-made products kicked off late last week a manufacturer of low carbon aluminium products.
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The news first. Andrew Hastie has been given the blessing of his young family to enter the Liberal leadership race, as conservative powerbrokers lean towards backing the 43-year-old to replace Sussan Ley. Just hours after likely leadership rival Angus Taylor returned from overseas, sources close to Mr Hastie confirmed that the West Australian MP had discussed
From the marvellous Michael Hartnett at BofA. Zeitgeist: “When the market goes up, they should lower rates” Trump on the Fed. Zeitgeist: “Only three certainties are death, taxes, and new highs in Japanese banks.” Tale of the Tape: Japan yen weakest vs. China renminbi since 1992 (Chart 6); biggest risk to max bull Q1 consensus
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New Zealand experienced one of the biggest house price booms in the world during the pandemic. However, since prices peaked in late 2021, values in real inflation-adjusted terms have plummeted by more than 30% to levels last seen in 2019, nearly six years ago. The latest house price results from the REINZ showed that home
Now, this is a tricky one, George, because it’s a subject on which my opinion has altered violently. And this is a disaster! My God, everyone knows that newspaper readers cling to the opinions of columnists like passengers on the Titanic fastened on to the few lifeboats there upon the chopping, churning sea.
Last year, I claimed that the Australian Treasury’s modelling of Labor’s 5% deposit scheme for first home buyers demonstrated that the Treasury had become the federal government’s propaganda arm. Labor’s First Home Buyer Guarantee program, which went into effect in October 2025, allows nearly all first home buyers to purchase a property with only a
