Labor targets Coalition's $40b blowout
Labor has launched a ground campaign targeting the annual $40 billion spending cuts needed to deliver tax cuts and surplus budgets.
- Opinion
- Federal election
The real cost of Australian education
The health of Australia’s education system is crucial. Sadly, the prognosis is not positive - and proving ever more resistant to expensive treatment.
Market sees October rate cut as a done deal
The market took a strongly dovish cue from the Reserve Bank's April minutes, but not everyone is convinced rates will be cut.
Lynas in rare form despite takeover tussle, regulatory row
Managing director Amanda Lacaze says rare earths miner and processor will hold on to product while prices remain soft.
Hackers getting smarter as cyber crime costs soar
Global cyber crime by increasingly sophisticated hackers is costing $US600 million a year, among the fastest growing areas for the insurance industry.
- Opinion
- Notre Dame fire
Pinnacle of civilisation in flames
Notre Dame was a pinnacle of the expression of what it means to be human. We built this. It is us at our best.
Morgan Stanley sees ASX200 dropping to 5800 by year's end
Morgan Stanley equity strategist Chris Nicol doubts that the benchmark can extend a strong first-quarter into the end of the year.
Business
CBA inches closer to Chinese approval for insurance deal
CBA has moved a step closer to finalising the $660 million sale of its stake in Chinese life insurer BoComm.
SPC signs private label contract with Coles ahead of sale
Coca-Cola Amatil's SPC has signed a private label contract with Coles but the up-for-sale food processor won't say if it's profitable.
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Lynas proves value of its Malaysian plant
This will not go down well with the powers that be at Wesfarmers but the latest quarterly report from rare earths manufacturer Lynas Corporation show why chief executive Amanda Lacaze is such a valuable asset to the busines.
Santos makes major gas find off WA
CEO Kevin Gallagher has described the Corvus-2 well gas discovery, which lies close to existing pipelines and is bigger than anticipated, as "fantastic".
The Iconic moves to take ethical fashion mainstream
Australia's largest online fashion retailer wants to make it easier to find environmentally and animal friendly fashion.
Why Blackmore says the company shot itself in the foot
'Unless we can grow the top line we're buggered in the long run': That's the blunt assessment from Blackmores interim CEO Marcus Blackmore
- Analysis
- Roads
Sydney traffic growth slows ahead of WestConnex
The NSW Premier has touted strong demand for WestConnex's new M4 tunnels, but Transurban's quarterly figures show Sydney traffic growth is weakening.
Markets
- Live
- Markets Live
ASX closes higher on quarterly earnings
Australian shares have closed higher on Tuesday after strong quarterly earnings drove gains across the board.
Rate cut 'appropriate' if jobless rate rises
The Reserve Bank of Australia says a rate cut would be appropriate if the unemployment rate started to trend up, which some economists are forecasting.
Goldman offers update on overhaul as revenue slides
Goldman Sachs offered new tidbits about its sweeping operational overhaul, but investors focused on revenue declines across nearly all its main businesses, sending shares lower.
- Opinion
- Monetary policy
Want to find an independent central bank? Try China
National leaders from the US to India have exerted huge pressure to bend monetary policy more to their liking. There's one unlikely central bank pushing back.
- Opinion
- Investment banking
Goldman's business model in a painful and slow transition
Rejigging Goldman Sachs, however sensible the strategy, will require plenty of patience. Mr Blankfein knew what he was doing when he chose his time to retire.
Opinion
Joko victory in Indonesia will be good for Australia
Indonesia's president is not the domestic reformer he might have been. But he is still good news for us.
Editorial
RBA puts rate cut cards on the table
The minutes from the Reserve Bank's most recent policy meeting are the clearest indication yet that monetary policymakers are poised to ease further.
Columnist
Lynas proves value of its Malaysian plant
Lynas Corporation's latest results show why Wesfarmers wants to buy the company on the cheap.
Columnist
Who can voters trust to manage the budget?
During an election, voters must ask if the Coalition's tax cuts are affordable and if Labor can fix its spending fetish, writes John Kehoe.
Senior Reporter
Politics
Unrequited love as accountants take on Shorten over $3000 cap
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has expressed his love for accountants on the campaign trail, but both major accounting bodies are attacking Labor's main tax policies.
- Opinion
- Federal election
From culture wars back to cold war
The government is sensibly trying to be re-elected on its delivery of economic opportunity and prosperity, not fringe cultural issues, writes Parnell Palme McGuinness.
- Opinion
- Federal election
Who can voters trust to manage the budget?
During an election, voters must ask if the Coalition's tax cuts are affordable and if Labor can fix its spending fetish, writes John Kehoe.
Stephen Conry wants a common sense energy policy
We ask leading Australians what they would do in the top job. Nick Lenaghan talks to Stephen Conry, chief executive JLL Australia.
Labor deletes negative gearing policy information
Labor has changed the website detailing its policy on negative gearing and capital gains tax.
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World
Foxconn's Gou says he may run for Taiwan presidency
Foxconn's chairman Terry Gou is considering whether to run for Taiwan's 2020 presidential election.
US companies in China fear diluted trade deal
A US-China trade deal is in prospect, but American companies in China want more than a cosmetic result which fails to address technology concerns.
Germany warns that Britain cannot have further Brexit extension
Foreign minister cautions British leaders that an appeal for a further Brexit delay would be read as a plea to remain in the EU.
Burning Notre-Dame evokes global grief
French firefighters said they had saved the shell of the Notre-Dame Cathedral from collapse on Monday after fire gutted and destroyed the roof of the landmark.
- Opinion
- Trade wars
Why Trump is great news for Xi Jinping
Calling off the trade war will not be the only gift from Mr Trump to the Chinese president. For he has already disarmed America in an even more important battle — the battle of ideas.
Real Estate
Vacancy rate dips, but 3pc threshold looms in 2019
Despite a modest tightening in the national vacancy rate, the market is expected to loosen as the year progresses thanks to an election and oncoming supply.
Sydney fund manager to revive Fortitude Valley's Walton's Building
Millinium plans to inject up to $50m of investor capital into a mixed-use development project due to commence before the end of the year.
Blue Sky to cop big loss on sale of Mackay hotel
The 82-room Coral Cay Resort was acquired by ASX-listed Blue Sky Alternative Investments for $16 million in May 2013 with an existing lease in place.
Good news for Sydney - housing affordability is up more than anywhere
Moody's spots a silver lining in the 10.7pc decline in housing prices in the NSW capital.
Triguboff's image used by scammers
The fake news articles claim the billionaire is raking in cash via a cryptocurrency trading platform.
Personal Finance
- Opinion
- How to invest
How to position your portfolio for recession
Investors should pay attention to the next few months of leading economic indicators, and position their investments accordingly.
Citigroup to refund $3 million after ASIC investigation
Citigroup will refund $3 million to 114 customers, after an ASIC investigation found the bank's financial advisers had overstepped the limits of general advice.
- Opinion
- Start-ups
Why super start-up Spaceship was always going to struggle
Launching a new start-up in the super space is hard work: high risk, tightly regulated and capital intensive ... and most target customers don't care.
Technology
- Opinion
- Influence campaigns
Agree with the left, or be destroyed
Google employees were so alarmed by the prospect of a conservative invading their playground that they started a petition to have me removed.
- Opinion
- Web culture
Uber plots IPO amid tech mid-life crisis
As analysts pore over Uber's books, it is to be hoped that broader questions about the impact of big tech platforms on society are being belatedly addressed.
- Opinion
- Telecommunications
No 5G, no NBN but Huawei dials up its phone presence
As Huawei races with Samsung to be the world's number one phone maker, its most interesting phone may turn out not to matter.
Leadership
Judge rules against uni in climate case
Sacked academic Peter Ridd has won a court case on climate change and academic freedom.
- Opinion
- Industrial relations
Sorry ACTU, only productive workers get pay rises
Real wages have risen in line with productivity and to boost that, policies must aim to attract more capital, writes KPMG Australia chief economist Brendan Rynne.
Lifestyle
Film review: Korea's Burning lives up to its name
Burning is a long slow fuse of a story that grows inexorably more mysterious and disturbing.
Iggy Pop review: At 71, a real wild child
The inventor of punk, and stage-diving, gave a thrillingly unpredictable swansong at the Sydney Opera House.
Confessions of a 'vego' traveller: BBQ stingray and a sublime steak
For Worklogic director Rose Bryant-Smith, many fond travel memories involve the (sometimes guilty) pleasures of exotic dining. She answers our Traveller Q&A.
The worrying truth about cricket boxes
Suppose to provide protection for cricketers genitals, boxes don't just fail to do their job, but may even be dangerous.
Rethinking Pink: how a classic menswear brand is transforming
After almost two decades of franchising and discounting under LVMH, Pink Shirtwear has a new chief executive and designer – and plans to do things "properly".
