Yesterday
- Opinion
- Opinion
Everybody pays the price for border populism
States cannot attempt to keep a clean sheet on infections at home while they undermine the collective economy.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Burning platform must fuel reform ambition
As Australia stands on a burning platform of change, the national interest demands the political system be more ambitious in pursuing economic reform in the COVID-19 era.
- The AFR View
This Month
- Opinion
- Opinion
Bank buffers shore up hope amid the crisis
The strong capital buffers built before the crisis are now helping the banks absorb the punch from COVID-19.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Gas industry will rise again despite the risks
The write-downs on LNG projects show the risks confronting capital-intensive endeavours, and the need to reduce the political risks exposed by the latest Narrabri inquiry.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
ACCC code will test big tech's news value
The ACCC's mandatory code will test if big tech firms can recognise the respective value of both the generation and the distribution of news and information.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Steer China inside the lanes of the global system
As trade with China booms, Australia's priority is not to contain China's growth, but to keep it from riding roughshod over the region and inside the lanes of the international system.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
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.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
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.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
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.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
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.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
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.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
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.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
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.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
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.
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July
- Opinion
- Opinion
Complacency gone as hopes of quick recovery fade
As Victoria struggles and other states close borders, much will depend on NSW.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
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.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
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.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
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.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
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.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
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.
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