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Immigration targets missing the point

Abdul Rizvi writes Australia’s migration debate needs clear targets, credible delivery plans and honest discussion of the consequences, not caps that cannot work or promises that ignore visa backlogs. Abdul Rizvi (Pearls and Irritations) The […]

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Why cash remains king

Fund manager Roger Montgomery explains why company profitability is important, but not as important as cash-flow 4 May 2023 | Roger Montgomery (Image: Nathan Mullet) Cash flow is the money flowing in and out of a […]

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AUKUS must be election issue

The Morrison Government has clear plans to take AUKUS to the next election as a key national security issue, however, its nuclear-powered submarines will be expensive white elephants, delivered long after the current government is […]

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Human rights and wrongs

Why does Australia still sell weapons to human-rights abuser Saudi Arabia? As the kingdom wages war in Yemen, Canberra continues to supply arms, making us complicit in the deaths of innocent civilians. 8 December 2021 […]

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Canberra’s corporate press pass

It’s not just journalists who hang around the National Press Club. A plethora of political lobbyists, industry bodies, weapons makers, the Big Four accounting firms, Big Tobacco, Big Pharma, alcohol and gambling interests—groups overwhelmingly foreign-controlled—all […]

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Nuclear “sub-standard”

The US Navy and Britain’s Royal Navy can’t maintain their own nuclear submarines so how is Australia, a nation with no expertise in nuclear powered vessels, going to maintain its attack submarines? 23 September 2021 […]

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Taxpayer cash injections

“Everybody did it”: wealthy doctors lobbies line of for JobKeeper jab, Callum Foote reports on Australia’s Medical Colleges refusing to pay back millions in JobKeeper 10 September 2021 | Callum Foote, MW Media (Image: Towfiqu Barbhuiya/APAC […]

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Big bailout or big grift?

The Big Four banks are profiteering from the Reserve Bank’s bail-out fund by betting on their own bonds. Michael West investigates a very quiet scandal that is the Committed Liquidity Facility. 3 September 2021 | Michael West, […]

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Credibility tanked

ASPI consistently cites an annual review by the University of Pennsylvania as proof its global credentials are “gold standard” but a closer look at the report hardly supports ASPI’s claim 30 August 2021 | Marcus […]