Growth can save living standards

The warning by ratings agency S&P that the Albanese government and the Reserve Bank are pulling in different directions needs to be the starting point in a wholesale turnaround in economic policy and political rhetoric.

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Warship trouble at the double for RAN

The navy’s two largest ships are out of action as maintenance shortfalls undercut the government’s strategy to create a force modelled on the US Marine Corps that would defend the ­nation’s northern approaches.

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Taxpayers are taking the risk on energy

Anthony Albanese has hailed the $2.5bn taxpayer subsidy for the Tomago aluminium smelter as proof of the wisdom of the federal government’s Future Made in Australia approach to business. It is nothing of the sort.

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