Opinion
Welcoming an international visitor to our shores is an opportunity to showcase Australia’s qualities, our people’s values and our economy’s strengths. So it’s fitting that Western Australia is playing such a prominent role in this week’s visit by the Premier of China. For a start, WA is home to a proud, generous and growing Chinese-Australian […]
Twelve years ago, Labor taxed Australia’s mining companies and now it wants to subsidise them with tax credits. The Coalition wants to repeal those subsidies, declaring them “billions for billionaires”, but two years after the Minerals Resource Rent Tax (MRRT) was legislated in 2012, the Coalition repealed it so the billionaires could keep their billions. […]
Western Sydney is a place of opportunity. It’s one of the most diverse and dynamic regions in the country – a centre of Australian entrepreneurialism and aspiration, and a hub for economic growth and jobs – and it’s also at the centre of my team’s Budget. Labor is investing in Western Sydney because we back Western Sydney. It’s an […]
TikTok is one of the biggest stories in business and geopolitics. US President Joe Biden has just signed a law that will ban the massively popular app in nine months if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell it to a non-Chinese entity. TikTok, for its part, has called the law “political theatre”, and it is probably […]
President Biden and former president Donald Trump don’t agree on much, but both have pledged not to touch Social Security benefits. This is a reflection of political reality, which is that a lot of seniors, who tend to vote at high rates, depend on the programs, and that they are popular generally. Social Security has […]
China’s Spring Festival has huge demographic and political significance. It’s the last surviving relic of a past world, where extended families gathered at their home villages to share respectful greetings to the old, wishes for prosperity (“Gong xi fa cai” in Mandarin) among the younger generation, and joy at the births of new heirs and […]
It was fun for a while, a novelty even, but I, like so many others, am becoming increasingly frustrated by the sheer volume of technology bundled into today’s new cars. And my frustration isn’t aimed purely at safety technologies or at increasingly complex infotainment systems. It’s aimed at everything, including the added cost to new […]
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will soon head to Washington DC for his first bilateral visit. He’ll arrive into a feverish political climate ahead of next year’s presidential election. As that approaches, Australia and other democracies that consider themselves friends to the United States must forgo the timid approach of refusing to comment on other countries’ […]
The White Australia policy stands out as probably the most significant blemish on this country’s national character and unity, as well as its global reputation, with continuing consequences today. It has been said that latent racism, carrying echoes of White Australia, persists across the country and all walks of life. We have seen it emerge […]
Support for a referendum to constitutionally recognise Australia’s Indigenous people slipped further, with the landmark proposal set to fail in a national vote roughly three weeks away, two opinion polls showed on Monday. Support for a “Voice to Parliament“, an Indigenous committee to advise parliament on matters affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people, fell […]
