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Australia needs to cough up its ‘regulatory hairballs’, declares PC boss
The Age
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August 17, 2025
Wood, whose organisation has made more than 40 recommendations across five separate specialist reports in the lead-up to the roundtable, will defend some of the commission’s more contentious proposals. She will argue that an economy-wide carbon...
How the 1980 Olympic boycott split Australia
Noosa Today
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August 17, 2025
Ian Jobling Last week’s interview by Noosa Today editor Margie Maccoll with Sunshine Coast Olympian Benny Pike about his experiences at both the 1980 Moscow Olympics and the belated ‘welcome home’ of the athletes at the Australian Parliament...
Australia should refrain from shielding criminals and meddling in HKSAR's law enforcement affairs: experts
Global Times
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Photo:VCG Australia should avoid shielding criminals and interfering in China's internal affairs regarding Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR)'s lawful enforcement actions, two Chinese experts stated Sunday, in response to a Reuters...
Actually, China can’t put Australia over an economic barrel
The Strategist
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August 17, 2025
Contrary to widespread commentary, Australia’s trade exposure to China doesn’t put Beijing in a position to apply powerful economic coercion on this country. To understand why, we first need to recognise that in cases of economic coercion the...
Boosting Australia's struggling productivity needs bold ideas. Here are 23 of them
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 17, 2025
'Productivity' is said to drive rising wages, faster growth, and better living standards. However, to many workers, it sounds like a code word for being asked to work longer and harder.This week, the government is bringing together a group of...
Australian Prime Minister Transcript – Press Conference 17 August
The National Tribune
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August 17, 2025
Prime Minister Good morning, I’m Patrick Gorman, the Federal Member for Perth, and the Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister, and it is delightful to be here at the Resources Technology Showcase here at the Perth Convention Centre with the...
Hong Kong democracy activist granted asylum after fleeing to Australia
The Independent
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August 17, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Revealed: The exact moment Australia passed 'peak woke' - as researchers uncover the plummeting popularity of identity politics among a VERY surprising age group
Daily Mail
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August 16, 2025
Australia has officially passed 'peak woke', with the majority of Generation Z now rejecting divisive identity politics, according to new research and polling. Researchers at the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) examined the popularity of 20...
As Australia’s natural disasters worsen, ‘vets carry on, even while their own clinics are under water’
The Guardian
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August 16, 2025
“Horrific” was how veterinarian Dr Stacey Rae describes what she saw while helicoptering above south-west Queensland farmland in the aftermath of ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred in March. Scores of livestock were scattered across the formerly dusty...
Why 'Albo the activist' has more in common with Liberal hero John Howard than he'd care to admit - and what it says about the future of Australia: PVO
Daily Mail
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August 16, 2025
Anthony Albanese is edging towards a paradox: a Labor PM who could end up echoing John Howard. Not in ideology, but in method. The shape of what's unfolding is familiar: govern from the centre, bank incremental gains and let time in office do the...
Australia’s republican future faces a Trump-sized foreign threat
Independent Australia
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As Donald Trump reshapes America into a more coercive and unilateral power, Australia’s long-running push for a republic finds itself at a complex geopolitical crossroads, writes Callum Seán Murray. AMERICA HAS RULED the Western world since the...
Federal Government urged to act now on mental health and psychosocial disability reform
Croakey Health Media
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August 18, 2025
Introduction by Croakey: The Federal Government are being urged by a coalition of mental health experts and groups to coordinate a whole-of-government response to the mental health crisis including by developing national mental health targets. In...
About 30 withdraw from Bendigo writers festival over speaker code – as it happened
The Guardian
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August 15, 2025
What we learned - Friday 15 AugustThat’s where we’ll wrap the blog up for today, but first: a quick recap of the big events: Take care and enjoy your weekend. Share Updated at 03.17 EDT Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to...
Tasmanian salmon-farming industry rebukes government pause on sector expansion
SeafoodSource
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The government of Tasmania is launching an independent review of salmon farming in the Australian state, garnering mixed reactions from NGOs and sharp condemnation from the industry. Tasmania Premier Jeremy Rockliff announced the independent...
Young generations at risk of being worse-off than previous generations
Realnews Magazine
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August 18, 2025
Youth THE head of the Australian government’s top advisory body on economic and social issues warned in a speech on Monday that young generations may live worse lives than their parents. Addressing the National Press Club in Canberra, Productivity...
CA ANZ calls for collaborative economic reforms
The Accountant
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August 18, 2025
Chartered Accountants ANZ (CA ANZ) has called for a focus on collaboration and leadership during the Economic Reform Roundtable held at Parliament House, emphasising the need to capitalise on opportunities that could enhance Australia’s economic...
Only the rare few are remembered for their legacy
Queanbeyan CityNews
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August 18, 2025
Anthony Albanese… perhaps at a zenith very few leaders have reached this century. Photo: Mick Tsikas/AAP “The speech the PM gave on recognition of a Palestinian state is one of the best I’ve heard this decade in federal parliament… Will there be...
‘Un-Australian’: Why there’s fury over this illegal Sydney vape store near Albo’s office
Sky News Australia
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August 15, 2025
Illegal vape stores are becoming increasingly “un-Australian”, according to some Sydney locals who are furious over one shop just metres from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s electorate office. The newly opened store, named ‘Labubu Stop & Shop’,...
Australian EV sales up 60 pct to record high
Xinhua News Agency
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CANBERRA, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Electric vehicle sales in Australia rose by over 60 percent to a record high in the second quarter of 2025, according to official data. In a report published on Thursday, the peak motoring NGO, the Australian...
GREAT KAUSE: Annual Kammy’s Kause event returns to help fund research, this year forming a new nonprofit
Daily Reporter - Indiana
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August 15, 2025
Jared Hiner, center, and his daughter Kammy join other families affected by Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome at the 2021 Kammy's Kause at Fortville's Landmark Park. The annual music event raises funds for families impacted by the chromosomal disorder,...