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The Latest Articles by Alan Kohler

Alan Kohler: The internet is a battleground between billionaires and altruists

Governments need to get much more involved in regulating the giants of the internet, some of the most important infrastructure of our lives.

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Alan Kohler: Why the Voice is an economic as well as moral issue

A First Nations Voice is fundamentally a moral question and a symbol of recognition, but it is also economic and political.

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Alan Kohler: How two Australian chemists came up with a global solution for plastic

This Australian invention using heat and water to turn plastic and biomass into oil and fuel is one of the great hopes of mankind.

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Alan Kohler: Why the Liberal Party lost, and could keep losing into oblivion

Can the Liberal Party actually pull itself out of this while remaining a centre-right party that is relevant to urban conservatives?

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Alan Kohler: The right to strike, and recessions we have to have

Ostensibly Labor's workplace laws are about "getting wages moving", but what it really comes down to is the right for workers to strike.

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Alan Kohler: It’s time for the Labor government to roll out the red tape

The time has come to get out a roll of red tape and do a bit of re-regulating

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Alan Kohler: Crypto and the end of the beginning

Will FTX’s collapse mean the end of crypto? Well, some of the 3000 or so cryptocurrencies, or at least it should.

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Alan Kohler: How to fix the budget – turn back time

Forty years of fiddling has disastrously undermined the tax system for short-term political gain (what a surprise!).

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Alan Kohler: Economists disagree on where interest rates are heading – shock

It’s hard to recall a time when the interest rate forecasts of economists were as widely, and wildly, different as they are now.

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Alan Kohler: The twitterverse bows to the chief twit, Elon Musk

Can Elon Musk convince enough Twitter users to switch where they bank and shop to his newly-acquired platform, asks Alan Kohler.

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Alan Kohler: Jim Chalmers delivers a responsible budget, with no repair and no relief

The last time a new government brought down its first budget, in 2014, it was a disaster for all concerned.

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Alan Kohler: The RBA has done enough – it would be reckless to keep hiking rates

The RBA has already done enough: it would be reckless, heartless and dangerous to keep raising interest rates, Alan Kohler writes.

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Alan Kohler: Reserve Bank the best bet to save humanity from climate crisis

Here’s a crazy idea: give the job of dealing with climate change to the Reserve Bank, Alan Kohler writes.

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Alan Kohler: To reform financial advice, start again

The regulation of financial advice in Australia has been a disaster, swinging from not enough to too much of the wrong sort. We need a new copper.

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Alan Kohler: Evan Thornley’s plan to get super funds into housing

The Keating iron fist in the Chalmers’ velvet glove is that if the super funds don’t invest in housing voluntarily, the Labor government will make them.

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Where do the RBA and economists now stand on wages growth?

Decision makers are torn between wanting to lift wages for fairness and consumption, and wanting to keep wages down to control inflation.

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Alan Kohler: A plan for the new welfare state

Daniel Mulino's new book proposes that welfare in Australia needs to be reformed, and he proposes five strategies for a “new welfare state”.

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Alan Kohler: The hubris of central bankers and the limits of money

Once again central banks, including Philip Lowe’s Reserve Bank, have kept extreme monetary policies in place for too long

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What if we had to sanction China?

China has become an aggressive, revisionist power, nourished by arrogance built from the economic strength that comes from decades of growth.

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Alan Kohler: Labor’s climate change safeguard mechanism is going to be a minefield

No wonder Labor has allowed 12 months to sort the details of the climate bill's safeguard mechanism reform. It’s going to be a minefield.

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Alan Kohler: Labor’s love affair with summits continues

Labor governments love having summits. Hawke had two, Rudd had one and now Albanese is having one. It's down to their bent towards consensus building.

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