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China's 6.9% GDP growth rate is not the hard landing feared - and Australia can benefit

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imageMore than one million Chinese tourists arrived in Australia last year and data suggests this could grow.AAP/Dean Lewins

After a rocky few weeks for Australian financial markets, China’s latest economic data release comes as a relief.

GDP was up 6.9% in 2015, right in line with survey expectations. Any talk about this being the slowest pace of...

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Irrational, man? Or a Kantian?

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imageIs Woody Allen an Irrational Man? Maybe not. Woody Allen at the Cannes screening of Irrational Man (2015) with cast members Emma Stone and Parker Posey. Benoit Tessier/Reuters

With Irrational Man (2015), there is no doubt about it, Woody Allen has done it again.

Just what “it” is, however, is less immediately clear.

I confess to taking an...

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Social media response to Islamic State must be more agile: Turnbull

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imageMalcolm Turnbull gave a speech to the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington that focused on global security and trade. Brad Hunter/PMO

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has called for the campaign against Islamic State (IS) to considerably improve its use of social media, declaring “the cybersphere demands reactions as...

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