Featured Opinion
Morrison can't stop the shockwaves from bushfires
The bushfires are affecting various aspects of our lives and changing our political conversation on everything from the environment to the role of government.
Columnist
Self-reliant silver lining of the bushfire emergency
The community response to the fires is Australia’s practical and self-reliant civil society at its best. The challenge now is to ensure that both government and non-government support is used effectively to speed the recovery.
Editorial
Community must also do more on aged care
The boss of the nation’s largest nursing home operator is right: older Australians should make a greater financial contribution to the cost of their care.
Editorial
Aged care is broken. Unlocking housing wealth can fix it
The billions of dollars locked up in family homes can ensure older Australians are comfortable and happy in their final years, writes Pat Garcia.
Contributor
True diversity must reflect different political views
The ABC and SBS should forget about what people look like. Both really need quotas to represent the diverse thinking of the community.
Columnists
In defence of Gina Rinehart's right to donate privately
If a billionaire makes a donation and doesn’t issue a news release, did it even happen?
Reporter
The national scandal that is financial planning
The country's financial planning industry is woefully ill-equipped to handle the $3 trillion in superannuation savings that Australians have amassed.
Columnist
The dangerous decade erupts, but it's not all bad
Donald Trump's restraint in the face of Iranian aggression revealed nuances to his hyperbolic personality, which have stopped a conflict escalating into a war that would have roiled markets worldwide, writes Christopher Joye.
Columnist
Yesterday
- Opinion
- World politics
Nancy Pelosi: one of America's most skilled politicians
Her weekly briefing was another bravura performance by a wily politician, and another reminder of how low is the intellectual wattage of the Trump White House.
- Jennifer Rubin
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Global shares beat the pack again
There is no shortage of international fund managers offering their services to investors. But be careful because many fail to beat the index and in the year just ended a third had negative returns.
- Tony Boyd
This Month
- Opinion
- Phones
Mate 30 Pro: The phone worth rescuing from Trump's trade war
With the stroke of a pen, Huawei's latest offering could soon transform from being a phone you shouldn't touch with a barge pole to the best phone on the market.
- John Davidson
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
BlackRock's push to match climate change rhetoric with action
The decision by BlackRock to join Climate Action 100+ is a precursor to the world's largest fund manager becoming more aggressive in its engagement with boards of directors to reduce carbon emissions.
- Tony Boyd
- Opinion
- Royal family
Harry and Meghan's choice has logic - but you can't be half royal
Comparisons to the Duke of Windsor's self-imposed exile in Paris are inevitable, but pointless. There is a better, current day example: Princess Madeleine of Sweden.
- Updated
- Fraser Nelson
- Opinion
- Trump's White House
Trump loves to blame Obama
Anyone else tired of perpetually petulant President Donald Trump blaming former president Barack Obama for, well, everything?
- Jonathan Capehart
- Opinion
- Paris Agreement
Can directors see the regulatory threat on climate?
Kenneth Hayne's remark that Australian directors’ duties laws on climate-related risk are “clear” glosses over the confusing morass of law on directors' duties.
- Will Heath, Nicola Charlston and Robert Kelly
- Opinion
- Media & marketing
The BBC is trapped in a London bubble of its own making
The Brexit vote and the general election show the UK media landscape is shifting quickly, and BBC viewers and listeners will not put up with its middle-class "liberal" bias indefinitely, says broadcaster Iain Dale.
- Iain Dale
- Opinion
- The AFR View
The dangerous decade for Australia has now begun
As Australia navigates the global geopolitical disruption and strategic uncertainties of the 2020s, its foreign policy must still focus on maintaining a reliable US presence in the region.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Berejiklian government squibs insurance levy reform
The NSW Treasurer talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk of tax reform.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Bushfires
Morrison is now counting the cost of climate denialism
Those still claiming that there is no link between climate change and the fires are akin to the Roman Catholic lunatics who denounced Galileo for heresy.
- Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- Trump diplomacy
Blame Howard, Murdoch, Bush and Blair for handing Iraq to Iran
The responsibility for the current crisis in the Middle East lies with the supporters of the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam, writes Kevin Rudd.
- Kevin Rudd
- Opinion
- Middle East tensions
Trump plays golf while Iran plays chess
Iran is an ancient civilisation with a long memory. It is not for amateurs. Trump is an amateur, writes Roger Cohen.
- Updated
- Roger Cohen
- Opinion
- Bushfires
Don't tie recovery in red tape
The best way of getting fire-devastated communities back on their feet would be to create special economic zones exempt from taxes, charges and regulations.
- John Roskam
- Opinion
- Extreme weather
Capital-rich reinsurers should keep a weather eye out
Insurers’ faith in their improved ability to assess risk will be tested by the growing unpredictability of weather patterns. This business is all about managing risk. Investors should be wary, like the uninsured, of tempting fate.
- The Lex Column
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Chanticleer's recommended holiday reading
What better way to pass away the hours on holidays than read some meaty non-fiction recommended by the Financial Review's resident Rooster.
- Tony Boyd
- Opinion
- Middle East tensions
The paradox of America First
Donald Trump sincerely aspires to a lighter global workload for the US. But his very nationalism makes him amazingly easy to provoke into conflict.
- Janan Ganesh
- Opinion
- Trump's White House
Five takeaways from President Trump's deranged speech on Iran
Not for the first time, Trump's tendency to beat his chest fiercely and then back down may put a limit on how much damage he does, writes Paul Waldman.
- Paul Waldman
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Europe's heavy blow against natural gas
The publication next month of the European Union procurement plan for achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 will send shockwaves through the global natural gas industry.
- Tony Boyd
