A referendum on national prosperity
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Bill Shorten's plan is quite at odds with the national economic successes of the last three decades.
Bill Shorten's plan is quite at odds with the national economic successes of the last three decades.
AFR readers' Letters to the Editor, Friday April 12, 2019.
The continued delaying on approvals for the Carmichael mine is an embarrassment for Australia, and governments that have kowtowed to activists.
AFR readers' Letters to the Editor, Thursday April 11, 2019.
Western nations need some of the policy boldness that they once urged upon Japan if they are to avoid decades of malaise.
Pay rises as companies invest, not because of protests or votes.
AFR readers' Letters to the Editor, Wednesday April 10, 2019.
There are better ways of managing the labour market than just sitting around hoping that wages will rise.
Even by 2022 the difference between the two parties for cops, nurses, teachers and salaried tradies on $90,000 per year starts to become app...
A pro-cyclical currency like the Australian dollar can cause havoc when markets tank.
If you are in any doubt how the Coalition has misread the politics of climate change and how concerned the Liberals are about Victoria, look at the recent change in language and behaviour.
It is time for both sides of politics to step up and fix a sector that has been crying out for reform for decades.
The Coalition believes hammering Labor over higher taxes on "hard working Australians" is its best hope for what will be a torrid, if not terrifying campaign
Investors in Kraft Heinz have learnt a valuable lesson - Warren Buffett doesn't get everything right. The Kraft Heinz crash is also a blow, albeit a manageable one, for Hamish Douglass' Magellan.
Alan Joyce's lowest point was when a Jack Russell terrier started biting his ankles during a live television cross while he was being abused by the dog's owner.
Andrew Forrest's gas import project for NSW has lost its CEO, but Stuart Johnston says that does not mean he is working on a disappearing project.
There has been a lot of bad public policy and bad politics in Australia in the past 15 years. And occasional moments of the alternative.
Showing Australians the true risk of overloading their savings with shares through a better rating system would drive a bigger bond market.
There is no way the banks will want to pass on a cut in July or August of this year – regardless of the political pressure they will be under.
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