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Build-to-rent plan risks ‘repelling investors’
Labor has been warned to redesign key elements of its plan to boost affordable rental stock around Australia.
- 33 mins ago
- Tom McIlroy and Campbell Kwan
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- International students
‘Careful what you wish for’: The hidden hit in foreign student caps
Foreign student enrolments in Canada plunged far more than expected after the government capped visas, in a salutary tale for Australia.
- 46 mins ago
- Julie Hare
Companies to face fines for failing to disclose cyber ransom payments
Legislation due to be introduced to federal parliament within weeks will require businesses with a turnover of $3 million or more to report payments to hackers.
- 47 mins ago
- Tom McIlroy
Victoria’s budget woes put ABBA plans on ice
However, despite the state’s debt pressures, the Victorian Chamber of Commerce says ABBA Voyage would generate hundreds of millions in revenue for Melbourne.
- 1 hr ago
- Gus McCubbing and Alexander Gow
David Rowe cartoons for August 2024
David Rowe is a multiple Walkley award-winning cartoonist. He draws a daily political cartoon and one for the Chanticleer column.
- 1 hr ago
- David Rowe
Top barrister Richard McHugh to be a judge
The silk and novelist will join the NSW Court of Appeal on August 20
- Michael Pelly
Opinion & Analysis
British riots show importance of managing migration
Australia can credit its overall success as a migrant nation on having got its immigration policy broadly right, and thereby avoiding an anti-immigration populist backlash.
Editorial
Fear and loathing in the NSW Liberals
A preselection candidate has gone to the Federal Court, alleging he was rejected by the NSW branch for the last state election because of his race.
Kim Beazley is utterly wrong, says Paul Keating
Former prime minister Paul Keating writes on WA’s risk from China; other writers on uranium mining in Jabiluka; Ismail Haniyeh’s death; lack of AUKUS transparency; and NSW eviction laws.
Contributor
The politics of grievance has become something more sinister
Ever since 9/11, terror alerts and politics have been inseparable, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t substance behind them either.
Political editor
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British riots show importance of managing migration
Australia can credit its overall success as a migrant nation on having got its immigration policy broadly right, and thereby avoiding an anti-immigration populist backlash.
- The AFR View
- Exclusive
- Big four consultants
Big four consultants’ ‘land and expand’ strategy hammered by scandals
The big four consulting firms secured about $90 million worth of contract extensions from Canberra last year, down from a record $252 million the year before.
- Ronald Mizen
Greens’ gas demands would weaken Japan, former envoy claims
Japan would be weakened and Australia’s reputation shattered, if export gas was redirected for domestic use, says Shingo Yamagami.
- Phillip Coorey
Fear and loathing in the NSW Liberals
A preselection candidate has gone to the Federal Court, alleging he was rejected by the NSW branch for the last state election because of his race.
- Max Mason and Myriam Robin
Yesterday
NSW to lease more offices for public servants ordered back
NSW is ready to lease extra office space after declaring it was time to end pandemic work-from-home conditions for its 80,000 public servants.
- Tom Burton
Warnings over ASIO workload because of heightened terror threat
The ASIO chief admits the spy agency is “stretched” as it deals with twin challenges of politically motivated violence and foreign espionage.
- Andrew Tillett
Foreign student crackdown is ‘economic self-sabotage’: uni chiefs
The policy change is over-reach, interventionist, Draconian and probably unworkable, scores of experts told a a Senate inquiry.
- Julie Hare
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Kim Beazley is utterly wrong, says Paul Keating
Former prime minister Paul Keating writes on WA’s risk from China; other writers on uranium mining in Jabiluka; Ismail Haniyeh’s death; lack of AUKUS transparency; and NSW eviction laws.
This Month
Frustration, confusion and Andrew Tate driving extremism in the young
Extremism experts warn that young men are becoming radicalised after looking to social media for simple answers to complicated economic and social questions.
- Gus McCubbing
- Exclusive
- International students
Unis to be capped at 40pc overseas students
The federal government will limit universities to 40 per cent international enrolments and bring numbers back to 2019 levels.
- Julie Hare
PM not tough enough on Iranian envoy: Libs
Ambassador Ahmad Sadeghi has hit out a “Zionist plague”, describing Hamas’ commitment to the “wiping out” of Israel by 2027 as a “heavenly and divine promise”.
- Phillip Coorey
- Exclusive
- Russia-Ukraine war
Australian ambassador shared work space with TikTok and a dog trainer
Australia’s ambassador to Ukraine worked out of a WeWork building in Warsaw amid fears Russian missile attacks make it too unsafe to go back to Kyiv.
- Andrew Tillett
NSW public servants ordered to return to office
Updated guidelines call for more than 400,000 public servants to be in offices “across the whole working week”.
- Campbell Kwan
- Analysis
- National security
The politics of grievance has become something more sinister
Ever since 9/11, terror alerts and politics have been inseparable, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t substance behind them either.
- Phillip Coorey
Beazley names state ‘most vulnerable and worthwhile’ to attack
The former defence minister says a nuclear submarine is vital to protecting the resources industry, urging an even harder line on blocking Chinese investment in critical minerals.
- Brad Thompson
PM’s Indigenous economic plan ‘not enough’
Businessman and Voice advocate Sean Gordon says many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities are not well placed to benefit from renewables development.
- Tom McIlroy
Reynolds’ claims ‘retraumatising’ Higgins, court told
Lawyers for Brittany Higgins have hit back at claims she cast Senator Linda Reynolds as a villain in an imaginary fairytale, calling them “harassing”.
- Tom Rabe
Extremism rising across the board makes terror attack ‘probable’
Security officials are alarmed by Australians embracing more extreme ideologies over issues such as pandemic lockdowns, the war in Gaza and economic hardship.
- Andrew Tillett
- Exclusive
- Big four consultants
Big four’s river of gold from taxpayers slashed 50pc
The Department of Defence recorded the biggest fall in spending as Labor cuts the public service’s reliance on outside advice.
- Ronald Mizen
- Opinion
- Philanthropy
Philanthropy needs reform to be more inclusive and effective
Philanthropy is not just for the 1 per cent. To maximise the impact of giving, all registered charities should qualify for tax-deductible status.
- John Hartman
