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Best books of 2025: our experts share their picks

The end of the year means holiday celebrations, summer breaks … and for us, one important thing: best books lists. We asked 35 expert readers for their favourite picks, ranging from novelists to anthropologists, scientists to criminologists – and experts in politics, publishing and philosophy. The only rule? The book…

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Sorry, America, but it’s not Australia’s fault that your healthcare system is failing you

Donald Trump has blamed ‘freeloader’ countries like Australia for the high cost of medicines. Unfortunately the grim statistics tell a different story

The Guardian - AU

Childcare is just the latest failure of Australia’s privatisation push. It’s time for an ideology overhaul

Even the Productivity Commission is backing away from the for-profit model. We need to ensure that our human services serve humans

The Guardian - AU

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Petition to parliament pushes for four-day working week

Greater work-life balances and time with family are just some of the reasons Sunshine State residents are petitioning for a four-day work week.

AAP

Trump has thrown out the global economic playbook. It’s time for Australia to write its own rules

We must ditch the illusion that the US will return to normal and instead become more self-reliant

The Guardian - AU

Ghost of Campbell Newman haunts early days of Crisafulli government

Dumped commitments, lack of transparency and an absence of accountability are the hallmarks of the Queensland LNP term so far

The Guardian - AU

Dutton may think voters no longer care about good government. But there’s no such thing as a ‘free lunch’

Australian politics has become a vehicle for personal enrichment in a way that would have been considered shocking last century

The Guardian - AU

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Banks at odds over easing lending restrictions

Easing lending requirements so more first homebuyers can get a mortgage has received mixed reviews, with warnings more borrowers would face crippling debt.

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There’s a yawning Coalition credibility gap on the cost of renewables and nuclear

Peter Dutton says renewable energy is too expensive – and unveils a plan to switch to nuclear, which the CSIRO says will cost 50% more than wind or solar

The Guardian - AU

Bonza is the latest victim of Australian neoliberalism. It’s hard to see a new airline arriving any time soon

The mess created by decades of economic mistakes will be hard to unscramble. But the airline industry is a good place to start

The Guardian - AU

The Coalition wants nuclear power. Could it work – or would it be an economic and logistical disaster?

The prospect of Australia trying to build nuclear reactors at soon-to-be-closed coal plants raises many questions. Here’s what we know

The Guardian - AU

For corporations, greed is good – so how can Australia really tackle price gouging?

Restoring wages, breaking up dominant firms and more extensive price regulation are all ways we can make an economy that serves people, not profits

The Guardian - AU

Five Great Reads: Willem Dafoe, breastfeeding hell and coffee science

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales

The Guardian - AU

Australia’s cost-of-living crisis isn’t about the price of groceries. It’s about wealth distribution

Making goods cheaper isn’t going to fix the fact that income has shifted to the top 10%

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Australia's emissions policies need 'radical reset'

Australia's is failing at every turn to rein in its emissions and a radical reset is needed, experts say ahead of a global climate summit in Dubai.

The Conversation

The intergenerational report will try to scare us about ageing. It's an old fear, and wrong

The “problem” of Australia’s ageing population has been a concern for decades. Indeed, I have aged along with it.

The New Daily

Jim Chalmers asks voters to trust him and Labor’s plan, but will they?

Treasurer Jim Chalmers' budget priorities have revealed the the long-term agenda of an Albanese government.

The New Daily

Paul Bongiorno: Prepare for another tax and spend budget

The rituals of the budget are as predictable as they are frustrating, including the mantra that all Labor governments do is tax and spend.

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Electric vehicle manufacturers push for fuel efficiency standards to increase uptake of cars, hit net zero by 2050

Car manufacturers say Australia needs to urgently adopt fuel efficiency standards in line with other countries to help promote the uptake of electric vehicles, warning it will otherwise be unable to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

The Guardian - AU

Queensland and Victoria resist push to replace stamp duty with land taxes

NSW policy giving first home buyers the choice to pay annual rate prompts calls for change in other states

The Canberra Times

Experts tell us to hold our horses on a four-day working week

Work-life balance is a social and health problem, experts have told a Legislative Assembly inquiry.

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Murray Watt says the government is providing the largest cost-of-living increase to welfare recipients in 30 years. Is that correct?

Cabinet minister Murray Watt says the government is providing the largest cost-of-living increase to welfare recipients in 30 years. RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.

The Guardian - AU

Winds of ‘radical change’: Queensland breaks up with coal in stunning week in energy

Annastacia Palaszczuk promised to ditch coal by 2035, leaving experts ‘gobsmacked’ given the state’s deep association with the fossil fuel

ABC News

Bitcoin mining more emissions-intensive than beef production, uses more energy than Austria, study finds

Emissions from Bitcoin mining jumped 126-fold between 2016 and 2021, and the process used more energy than Austria or Portugal, a new study shows.

The Guardian - AU

‘Cowering before wealthy investors’: Queensland scraps tax changes targeting interstate landlords

Backflip comes after resistance from real estate industry and NSW’s refusal to hand over information

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