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Comment & Analysis
Less interest in politics since Turnbull took over
Malcolm Maiden 6:23 PM Malcolm Turnbull's success in getting politics off the front page could give him more leeway for reform.
The corporate lie: tax transparency 'misleading'
Nassim Khadem 6:09 PM The list of tax paid by Australia's biggest companies may have raised more questions than it answered. Nevertheless, we needed it.
Talk, sure, but try listening this Christmas
Harold Mitchell 5:43 PM Good communication is the key to the stability we need in politics, in business and in our personal lives.
More than a few bad apples at CBA
Adele Ferguson 7:12 AM After wading through more than 68 pages of a heavily jargoned review into CBA's financial planning business, two things stand out.
The end of an aberration
Malcolm Maiden This is a time of risk for markets but it is also positive that the world's biggest economy is lifting.
ScoMo wedges himself in tax reform
Michael Pascoe In all the analysis of the MYEFO budget update and the myriad suggestions for how to fix the tax take, one thing has largely been missed.
Domino's taking a bigger slice
Elizabeth Knight Addictive fast food and easy-to use ordering tech is the perfect profit mix.
Small banks gouge customers too
Michael Pascoe Small banks were presented with a choice. No prizes for guessing which option they chose.
Opinion
Will this US credit fund pop the post-GFC asset bubble?
Jeremy Warner The low interest rate environment has sucked investors into all manner of high risk assets. Is this the long-dreaded popper?
You can bank on it: forecasts are always wrong
Malcolm Maiden The budget forecasts were wrong, but who is surprised? It's a rule: forecasts are always wrong.
Treasury calls it: housing boom over
Michael Pascoe Without strong home building, what's supposed to lift economic growth?
Why on earth does Australia still have tariffs?
Leon Berkelmans We don't have to do deals, this nation can cut its own path on trade.
Michael Pascoe
Real innovation doesn't need the IT crowd
Michael Pascoe If you really want innovation, you don't need IT millionaires and a billion-dollar government package.
Suncorp gets cold shoulder from investors
Elizabeth Knight With climate change and global gas emissions taking the main stage as a central policy issue for governments around the world it was curious that one of Australia's largest general insurers Suncorp was silent on the ramifications of climate related weather events on the day it was forced to downgrade its profit forecast.
Climate denial is some people's religion
Michael Pascoe With divine licence to subdue the earth and do what you like with every living thing, climate change couldn't be a human problem, right?
Turnbull's tax reform striptease has started
Ross Gittins It's time to start ruling out some of the options even if business doesn't like it.
Awards for a year of missteps
Michael West From Slater & Gordon to Dick Smith, Chevron to Macquarie, Michael West hands out gongs for 2015.
"I'm too nervous to go anywhere.''
Adele Ferguson How a man too ill to drive was sold a car and then taken for a ride over junk insurance.
Mark Hawthorne
In Woolworths' year of living dangerously, they are famous for all the wrong reasons
Mark Hawthorne, Senior Editor Christmas is meant to be a time of celebration for our retailers. The spending will top $45 billion this holiday season, but for the majority of Australia's retailers, they are just waiting for the annus horribilis to come to an end.
Was there a profit hole inside Woolies last year?
Malcolm Maiden It looks like it will be up to the Federal Court to decide whether the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is right that Woolworths gouged suppliers a year ago in an attempt to fill a hole in its earnings. What can be said, however, is that the claim intersects in interesting ways with what Woolies was saying at the time.
Innovation needs to be in your face
Ross Gittins What can governments do to encourage innovation? Well, as we learnt this week, Malcolm Turnbull can think of $1.1 billion-worth of things to do.
Palmer battling hard to save empire
Elizabeth Knight Gumtree post, January 2016: For sale – one (barely used) dinosaur theme park, five corporate jets, a set of plans for a replica of the Titanic, an abandoned former luxury resort on prime Queensland acreage,  a handful of golf courses and numerous residential properties. Items can be bid for individually. Contact Clive Palmer - Coolum, Queensland.
Michael Pascoe
Jobs boom is a Sydney story
Michael Pascoe There is an extraordinary wall of negativity in the economic commentariat about the much-better-than-expected employment statistics.
Disruption in Australia is not a new innovation
Harold Mitchell We've a long history of challenging accepted business wisdom.
Atlassian is worth as much as Qantas now
John McDuling It's only been a day, but life as a listed company has been kind to the Australian tech darling.
Reform brawling should force states' land tax hand
Michael Pascoe How brawling, blaming and buck passing might end up driving decent tax reform.
Karaoke sex slave raids a stain on Australia
Adele Ferguson Sexual servitude is arguably the most egregious worker violation of foreign workers in this country.
East West report shows how not to do a deal
Malcolm Maiden The report is a reminder however that in public-private project debacles the public service also plays a part. Advice to the former state government was not "full and frank", it says, in a finding key state public servants reject.
Companies can't cut out the clever
John Pollaers Boards must follow Malcolm Turnbull's lead and not rein back spending on innovation.
