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- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 3
- Latest publication
- Sep 2, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for AFR
- Top 50K sites
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 12, 2026
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Economics says Australia should have negative migration (opens the original)
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Politics has forced the hand of the major parties to announce immigration cuts. But on those promises, Australia would run one of the highest per-capita intakes in the developed world – above most of Western Europe, where immigration is fracturing the social fabric. Politicians imagine themselves trapped between an economy needing immigrants and a public wanting fewer. It’s time they questioned their assumptions. Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.
Productivity Commission shreds its credibility on Indigenous reporting (opens the original)
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The 2026 Closing the Gap report delivered a landmark: 101.7 per cent of Indigenous children in the year before school are enrolled in preschool. The first of 19 targets has been met. When I left the Productivity Commission six years ago, this was an achievement not even the most optimistic among us thought possible – at any given moment, only 100 per cent of Indigenous children exist. Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.
Don’t be naive about Modi’s foreign influence rally (opens the original)
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Imagine Xi Jinping filling Marvel Stadium with 30,000 flag-waving supporters, at an event organised by someone who had served as president of a group explicitly established to promote the Chinese Communist Party abroad, with the prime minister and Victorian premier applauding along. Nobody would hesitate over what to call it: a political rally for a foreign power, held on Australian soil, blessed by our elected leaders. Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.
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