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Anthony Albanese promised to be "the adult in the room" and govern from the centre. But is that still the political mood as we enter the last part of 2026?

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After a year examining global inequality alongside leading economists and experts, Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz describes the crisis as both vast in scale and dangerous in trajectory. He outlines a ...