Letters: Citizenship debacle, Afghan aid and The Armpit
AFR readers' Letters to the Editor, Sunday September 3, 2017.
Big CBA board changes looming
It was another huge week at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, with chairman Catherine Livingstone putting the finishing touches to significant boardroom changes and group chief risk officer David Cohen implementing a new structure for managing financial crime risks.
Disrupting real estate with pixels
The LJ Hooker partnership with the social media giant is part of the digital disruption changing the face of Australian real estate sales.
Investment thaw needs Coalition aid
The Coalition needs to get back to a growth narrative if it wants to nurture a surprise recovery in business investment
A US exit would unleash old nightmares
The end of Pax Americana in the Pacific would revive all the old conflicts buried by Asia's half-century of prosperity.
Labor willing to deal in energy war
The Coalition, Labor, and the gas producers can all take the blame for the gas crisis. But they are starting to realise that is not the poin...
Better opportunities outside the blue chips
As investors flee the likes of CBA and Telstra, there are good reasons to move that money into the outperforming small cap space of the ASX.
Cashless cards that are saving a troubled community from itself
New system means national income is locked away from spending junkies.
All eyes on China's Game of Thrones
Chinese President Xi Jinping will likely emerge from the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party, dubbed the Chinese version of Game o...
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philip baker
The ASX has a problem and it's 5700
Just what is it about the local sharemarket and the number 5700? The S&P; ASX 200 index can't break away from that number.
tony boyd
Big CBA board changes looming
It was another huge week at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, with chairman Catherine Livingstone putting the finishing touches to significant boardroom changes and group chief risk officer David Cohen implementing a new structure for managing financial crime risks.
phillip coorey
Labor willing to deal in energy war
The Coalition, Labor, and the gas producers can all take the blame for the gas crisis. But they are starting to realise that is not the point.
adele ferguson
Insolvency reforms must deliver
A new wave of insolvency sector reforms are welcome, but the jury remains out on their effectiveness.
jennifer hewett
Can Morrow make the NBN numbers add up?
Bill Morrow's plans to monetise NBN's own value is very much a work in progress.
jonathan shapiro
Don't count out non-bank lenders just yet
The big banks are being forced to tighten lending standards, limit investor loans and are responding to higher capital requirements by jacking up rates. But what does their response mean for the non-bank lenders, borrowers and for the financial system ?
michael smith
It's back to the future for Qantas
Alan Joyce was slated for his original deal with Emirates, but his new deals suggests it was an masterstroke.
matthew stevens
Santos swapping its way to safety?
Santos CEO Kevin Gallagher's latest gas swap deal is as much about politics as it is about money.
laura tingle
Business, banks can only blame themselves
When you lose the moral high ground, you soon start to lose all the arguments. Something the business community is finding to its cost.
christopher joye
Red flag in Magellan’s massive new trust
Magellan's rush to announce a huge new listed trust to grab permanent capital a day before its results release may presage anxieties about future performance.
