Albanese distances Labor from RBA, calls rate hikes a ‘blunt instrument’
The under-pressure prime minister spoke candidly about the treacherous domestic and global political environment as the Reserve Bank prepares to hike rates.
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The under-pressure prime minister spoke candidly about the treacherous domestic and global political environment as the Reserve Bank prepares to hike rates.
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Surely the fact that then Premier Mike Baird’s chief of strategy, “queried why we are giving funding to a clay target association in a … relatively safe seat” amplifies to all that the abhorrent practice of pork-barrelling is alive, well, and, as Berejiklian recently noted, acceptable (“Berejiklian ...
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What will we actually achieve with this belated, grudging net zero by 2050 target (“Nats name price for net zero support”, October 22)? Let’s see: ScoMo can go to Glasgow and not get howled out of court and he won’t be too embarrassed the next time he gets to meet the Queen or Prince Charles. All so...
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Jordan Baker is Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald.
We’re all aboard Sydney’s new Metro extension, where the old quarter-hour wait for the service to the city has been consigned to history.
South Africa needs runs and Australia quick wickets as day four continues in the third Test in Cape Town. Follow along live.
A once-easy trip had turned into a nightmare. Commuters breathed a sigh of relief at the opening of Sydney’s new metro line.
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Dr Carol Booth is principal policy analyst at the Invasive Species Council.
The ribbon cutting ends more than two years of major disruptions and completes the 66-kilometre line which now connects the city’s south-west to the north-west.
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Kate Halfpenny is the founder of Bad Mother Media.
This year the annual fright-fest falls on a Saturday for the first time since the depths of the pandemic – and Sydneysiders are embracing it.
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Lisa Visentin is the North Asia correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age based in Beijing. She was previously a federal political correspondent based in Canberra.