Yesterday
- Opinion
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Growing cause to question the Andrews strategy
We may still all be Melburnians, but the huge national cost of Victoria's lockdown demands more answers than the country is getting.
This Month
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Victoria's failures can help us learn to get it right
The mistakes made in the state need to be taken on board in assessing whether Australia’s pandemic battle plan is still appropriate.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
New lockdown confusion splinters Team Australia
The Team Australia unity between government and business is now splintering, with business left in the dark about the new lockdown rules in Victoria.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Don't shut borders on the recovery
Shutting virus-free borders makes no sense. We must hit the disease hard where it’s present. Leave the rest of the country open.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
ASIC's 'armchair' case crumbles
Once again, the tough ‘why not litigate’ policy of the regulator has finished up looking like a ‘why did they litigate' on reflection.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Victorian siege chokes economy, strangles budget
The small circle of light at the end of this tunnel is that, if successful, Victoria’s bracing assault against the Melbourne outbreaks could leave Australia with minimal COVID-19 infections heading into Christmas.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
End the casual confusion
Rather than leave an important public policy decision to the lawyers and regulators, or left to the veto of the ACTU, the law regarding casual worker needs to be urgently fixed.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
State of disaster a great leap backwards
The financial price that Australia will have to pay on account of the escalating crisis in Victoria is getting dearer by the day.
July
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Complacency gone as hopes of quick recovery fade
As Victoria struggles and other states close borders, much will depend on NSW.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
The class action swamp is not made in Hollywood
What to do about the growth of the class action industry in Australia is now the subject of a heated and partisan federal parliamentary inquiry.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Morrison doctrine aims to manage China on Australia's terms
But China is far more likely to conform to a rules-based order by Australia creating a regional coalition, rather than acting as Washington's deputy sheriff.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
ASIC gives up on its fruitless case of shiraz
Australia's bank borrowers have been spared from ASIC's regulatory overreach at a crucial time.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Why the GFC didn't discredit supply-side economics
The 1980s policies that reversed the economic decline in the US, Britain, Australia and New Zealand still provide a basic guide for escaping the long shadow of today's pandemic crisis.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Walk the talk on Reagan-Thatcher supply-side rhetoric
What those who care about Australia’s future as a fair and prosperous country should really fear is that the Treasurer’s name-checking of Reagan and Thatcher turns out to be mere rhetoric, rather than a prelude to a genuine reform agenda of Hawke-Keating (and Howard-Costello) dimensions.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Burning platform needs Friedman as well as Keynes
After the biggest Keynesian intervention in our history, the road back to health needs the insights of another generation of reformers.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Keynes v Reagan: the will to restore prosperity
To borrow money now to fight the virus and then grow so that we can repay it will need discipline – and a determination to reform old ways and drive greater economic efficiency.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Red ink repair job on budget now begins
Despite things going wrong in Victoria, the Morrison government has begun paring back the size of the emergency props and protecting the budget’s structural integrity.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Now we must grow our way out of this debt
Australia is well-placed to take advantage of cheap funding because it kept its house in order in previous decades.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
We should follow the science on coal seam gas
Letting the science drive the decision to start Narrabri will also mean letting the properly regulated private sector provide energy to keep the lights on and factories working while protecting the natural environment.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Virus response must keep on adapting to events
The seeming consensus across state and federal governments that the health and economic response must evolve to changing circumstances is not necessarily the position of Australia’s union movement.
