What makes the AI-driven stock market bubble unique in history is that if it's not a bubble, the impact on humanity could be far more challenging than any previous technology.

The strange macho appeal of fossilised vegetation means that 30 years of annual United Nations meetings to stop the planet heating any more have been a bust.

Anyone who controls the supply of magnets controls the future, and China has been quietly working on this under America's nose for decades. Can Australia muscle in?

Australia's emissions reduction number is, in short, a laugh-or-cry-o-metre, or perhaps more accurately, a tax-o-metre.

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers must find a way to repeat what Paul Keating did in the 1980s and 90s, and lift productivity. Good luck with that.

We can now conclude that the strategy of taxing and banning nicotine addiction out of existence is a complete failure. The result is organised crime making about $10 billion a year in revenue.

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The AI battle between China and the US is less about profits and return on investment, and more about geopolitics — national machismo, security and defence.

Four Ts dominated the conversation about Anthony Albanese's China trip: Trump, tariffs, Taiwan and trade. But look a little deeper and it's clear green iron was a key talking point, too.

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It's entirely appropriate that Albanese is meeting Xi again before he meets Trump for the first time. Xi is more important than Trump now.

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To meet the government's housing target every year there will need to be infill land created about 26 times the size of Melbourne's CBD across Australia.

In "My 2 Cents", we're asking those questions you'd rather not answer about money. What can we learn from how ABC finance guru Alan Kohler manages his money?

Donald Trump's team is fighting one of the most consequential legal cases in the US history, but there are plenty more where that came from: 250 lawsuits are currently featuring his administration.

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With housing affordability now improving as interest rates come down, housing accessibility is likely to worsen further as prices again rise.

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It does not look feasible for a political party to succeed in Australia without a credible commitment to reducing carbon emissions.

Is Albanese up for it? Does Chalmers have a "passion for bold policy" to indulge? Does the country need it?

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Australians saw through the Coalition's attempt to have it both ways and dealt with Peter Dutton as if he was Donald Trump.

I've seen the future of an important part of Australia's healthcare system — a private hospital owned by a health insurance company.

The policies of both parties designed to increase housing supply are fine — they're just nowhere near enough.

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The Australian government after May 3 will no doubt want to try to negotiate with the Trump administration about our 10 per cent tariff, but they might be better off to just work around it and move on...

Housing affordability is a key issue for voters in the upcoming election with both major parties pitching policies geared at increasing supply. But how should the gap between housing supply and demand...

Both major parties know how to improve Australia’s abysmal productivity performance but they have deemed it too hard.

While Australian politicians argue about power bill relief and non-existent nuclear power stations, pressing issues like the great US retreat, global warming and AI are being ignored.