Australian Workers Union boss Paul Farrow has joined senior Tasmanian Labor figures in -demanding that Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek end uncertainty for salmon workers and put their livelihoods ahead of the “exaggerated concerns of inner-city activists”.
Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart has taken aim at bureaucrats while calling for Trump-style cuts to the public service, saying taking the axe to public spending would pay for tax cuts.
The billionaire mining magnate and Liberal party donor used her speech at a National Mining Day event hosted by Santos last week to outline her vision of a stripped-back Australian Public Service.
Mining billionaire Gina Rinehart’s rallying cry to Australians ahead of the federal election is “make our bank accounts great again” as she urges the Coalition to follow the lead of Donald Trump with an uncompromising policy agenda.
Australia is in a rut: becoming older, flabbier and less nimble to play to the conditions.
The nation is getting more expensive to run, invest in and house, revealed by a bulging and indebted state, an overly regulated private sector, threats of capital flight and the punitive cost of homes.
In a week when the Albanese government slash, shifted the nation closer towards the planned economy favoured by the left, which seems incapable of understanding the process of wealth creation, the Business Council of Australia pressed ahead with its drive to encourage government to overhaul economic policy to encourage productivity improvements.
It says something about national smugness when the feelings of the ‘Jidirah Spirit Whale’, which tells all the fish in the sea what to eat, when to mate, and where to migrate, overrides an $18.7 billion Woodside offshore gas project with the capacity to power 8.5 million homes for 30 years.
Australia is confronted by three big changes in our strategic circumstances that are making our steady-as-you-go approaches to security and economic development untenable.
We face a markedly increased risk of war in the Indo-Pacific; the global economy is restructuring rapidly in adverse ways; and the Australian economy has stalled with essentially zero productivity growth, declining international competitiveness and a flight of much-needed investment.
Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart has called for “genuine” leaders to take the country forward in the new Trump era as she lambasted the “green ideology” for stalling investment in a range of sectors.
The last week has seen the creation of a new Australian cottage industry in making predictions about how Donald Trump would hurt the Australian economy. Tariffs, inflation, war, the death of democracy, you name it.
As you dig into your breakfast this National Agriculture Day, take a moment to think of the people who put that food on your table.
One of Donald Trump’s most eye-catching moves this week was appointing Elon Musk and fellow tech billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy as outside efficiency experts to the US federal government.
Should Opposition leader Peter Dutton aim to be more like incoming president Donald Trump?
