Gonski 2.0: A sequel worth watching
The hot question is whether Turnbull's Gonski 2.0 yields a better and more cost-effective combination of fairness and economic efficiency.
Comment & Analysis
Coming for the tax lawyers – and quantity surveyors?
First they came for the tax lawyers and accountants. Are quantity surveyors going to be the next political tax target?
Macron can lead France to a Napoleonic ascent
Emmanuel Macron has a mandate for change that his predecessor sorely lacked
The Trump punt: the latest fashion in gambling
For those who consider themselves experts or even gifted amateurs on United States politics, there are opportunities to punt that knowledge.
Now that it's just BHP, what's to become of Billiton?
South32's shares have risen 28 per cent since the split and it's sitting on a $1.2 billion cash pile, but it's living on borrowed time.
Why working families are struggling to find balance
We're crushing the confidence out of our own people with bureaucracy, weak political leadership steeped in spin and irrelevant gobbledegook.
It's 'game on' in the battle for control of Fairfax
This bidding war is likely to move the 176-year-old media group into foreign hands.
The 2017 budget's inconvenient truth
Adjusted for tricks, there's no chance of a surplus for a long time.
Skewered Officeworks sale raises wider Wesfarmers questions
The imminent arrival of Amazon has skewered Wesfarmers' ability to do what it does best – horse trading assets.
Do you really need to work at weekends?
The 24/7 economy has created too much blurring of work and personal time.
'Inflexible and defensive': Gloves off in BHP stoush
The latest missive from the activist fund manager is an aggressive assault on BHP's strategy, performance and the billions of dollars Elliott says the company has lost.
How I learned to delegate and not catastrophise
It was easy and I should have done it years ago.
The five pain points that wrote the budget
Repairing the damage of the Abbott Total Opposition years, will take time. But the budget is a big and quite calculated start.
The real reason banks are so angry
Why lenders are squealing so loudly about the bank tax.
If tech's Big Five were a nation, they'd now be bigger than Britain
Having added more than $US500 billion to their share prices this year, the five companies' combined market value would rank as the world's fifth-largest economy. And they keep growing.
Will Scomo's big budget give a big economic push?
Will Scott Morrison's big spending, big taxing, big borrowing budget impart a big fiscal stimulus to the economy in the coming financial year? Not so much.
'Dark days' for retailers as Cyclone Amazon approaches
The arrival of Amazon will be an existential moment for some retailers and it will almost certainly trigger of wave of industry rationalisation.
Can't hit budget? Move the goal posts
It's been a big week for budgets with endless analysis after the event and daily leaks during the run up.
Slugging banks is the fairest way to raise billions
If you think the big new bank tax is outrageous and unfair, tell us what would be a better, fairer way to raise a quick $1.6 billion or so next year.
FBI chief's sacking is seismic, but will it rock the market?
The risks of a White House impeachment crisis and months of Washington paralysis are rising exponentially.
How much of your job is ripe for automation?
More white-collar jobs poised to slide down occupation ladder.
The attack that banks should have seen coming
The federal government's bank levy is as personal as it is punitive and political.
Who fell for the big infrastructure con job?
Reborn big-taxing, big-spending Scott Morrison shows he's a much better salesman than Joe Hockey.
Australians can't rely on Qantas as Dreamliner set to be a nightmare
After months of fanfare, Qantas last week released the details of its non-stop flight from Perth to London aboard its new Dreamliner. And the loser is ... Melbourne.
University howler calls for dogged leadership
I always wanted to go to university but never did. Instead I enrolled in the university of life and it seemed to work.
No role for turkeys in Sydney's second airport
The very notion of having the owner of Sydney's Kingsford Smith airport, Sydney Airport, build and operate the city's second airport at Badgerys Creek is akin to putting the turkey in charge of Thanksgiving.
Does Australia have too many universities?
Debate is needed about the benefits and costs of merging under performing universities.
Woolies races to get match fit for Amazon fight
Woolworths was expected to beat Coles in the latest quarterly bout of the great supermarket war. But it shot the lights out.
Housing slowdown a blip or something more?
The big question raised by last month's slowdown in Sydney and Melbourne's housing markets is whether this is a blip on the radar.
Why regions must be part of Brisbane's New World City mission
My business Little Tokyo Two and the State Library of Queensland created a "Business Studio" about 12 months ago with an intention to fit the gap between having an idea and deciding to start it - essentially a feeder to the rest of the ecosystem.
Executive Style
Celebrate World Whisky Day with one of these innovative drams
An international brigade of innovators are enriching whisky with their own styles and cultures.
Trend setters: The 24 best-dressed men at Fashion Week
Well-dressed gents who were just as keen to show of their style as the ladies.
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Politics is supposed to be a no-go zone for the workplace
The left vs the right: Who's fairer at work?
Move over coconut water - here comes watermelon water
David Freeman built a $20 million business out of coconut water and now he's turned to watermelon water.
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