Iron ore is as good as it gets
BHP Billiton chief financial officer Peter Beaven hoses down all the excitement about high resources prices at The Australian Financial Review Business Summit held last week.
Labor used to get it on tax
The PM laments vanishing bipartisanship on growth-boosting tax cuts at The Australian Financial Review Business Summit
It's hard to shift budget expectations
You don't have to be a mathematician to figure out there's a problem
The day that Trump was elected
The Australian Financial Review's Washington correspondent recalls his reaction to Trump's election at The Financial Review's Business Summit last Wednesday.
The populist tide is hardly new
What has changed is instead of minor party policies being regarded as a phenomena of the fringe, they are now being viewed more for what they represent.
Summit shows the policy challenges
With too little gas and too much tax, Australian companies need better policy than they have been getting.
How Lego rebuilt itself
The toymaker is at its best when it remembers its "moral obligation", a former exec says.
Electricity just the latest technology disruption
Calling a meeting of CEOs will do little to address the core problem of Australia's energy crisis.
Big business challenges Turnbull's tax agenda
Corporate Australia is split over Malcolm Turnbull's company tax cut plan.
Gas majors called to fix 'energy crisis'
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has called an urgent meeting of big gas producers to try and avert an eastern coast "energy crisis".
Shell blames customers for east coast gas crisis
Shell Australia chairman Andrew Smith has blamed some gas customers for worsening the crisis in the east coast by selling fuel back to LNG export ventures.
Banks look to hook up with China e-commerce giants
ANZ's Mark Whelan says banks need to hook up with Alipay and Wechat as more Australians sell goods directly to China through these platforms.
Tech will create more jobs than it will destroy
Billionaire Atlassian founder Mike Cannon-Brookes says politicians should stop pretending jobs won't be lost under disruption.
The customer of 2027 will be elusive
But they'll always be up for an experience, Uber and a panel of consumer businesses has concluded.
This is not a crisis that might dissipate
If ever there was a test for all our politicians – and whether they can, for once, concentrate on the problem at hand rather than simply blame each other – this is it.
Compete on tax and costs or risk $25b: BHP
Business must hold firm to the message: If parents want jobs for their kids, investment is the answer.
Corporate tax cut won't make a difference
ANZ chairman David Gonski says focusing on one part of the tax system, such as the corporate rate, won't help. Welcome to day two of our second annual Summit. We'll bring you all the action live.
'Doing business in China means being there'
Geoff Raby says Australian businesses with operations in China often mistakenly believe it was best left to the Chinese.
EA's Tanna backs Qld move
EnergyAustralia's managing director has come out in strong support of Queensland's controversial step to release exploration acreage reserved for future local gas supply to help address the gas crisis.
Tax cut would spur investments and jobs: BHP
BHP Billiton CFO Peter Beaven has declared that "every Australian" would benefit from the rise in investment, jobs and tax revenue that would be spurred by a cut.
'US the balance between growth and risk'
Listen to Anthony Pratt for half an hour and it is easy to wonder why every Australian manufacturer is not flocking to the US to do business.
Turnbull flags budget cuts
Malcolm Turnbull has flagged fresh spending cuts in the May budget after warning that the trajectory of the Coalition's budget is still not robust enough.
Anthony Pratt's $100,000 bet on Donald Trump
As Anthony Pratt travelled around Visy's US operations last year he became convinced the Republican would win.
PM calls urgent gas meeting to avert 'crisis'
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has called an urgent meeting of big gas producers to try to avert an eastern coast "energy crisis".
'Politics is going to have to go places'
Former federal Liberal Party director Brian Loughnane said governments have to adapt to the rise of political populism or they will face defeat.
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