Yesterday
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Appeal for united front on China
By calling on fellow liberal democracies to work together, Scott Morrison is responding to criticism for getting out in front on China, with no strategy to back it up beyond slogans.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Population miscalculation
The Chinese people’s desire to to grow rich will now prove far more powerful than the Communist Party’s attempts to use families as an arm of the centrally planned state.
This Month
- Opinion
- The AFR View
AAA rating a chance to come out stronger
The continued ability to borrow cheaply in international credit markets must not become an excuse for complacency about the growth agenda Australia still needs.
- Opinion
- Industrial relations
The PM’s revival of greenfields reform is a step forward
While short of genuine and structural workplace reform, industrial relations reforms are at least moving in the right direction once more.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Pell contempt case shows courts must adapt to digital age
If the courts just continuing to punish the owners of the printing presses, their frustrations with modern communications technology will just undermine the administration of justice.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
History shows energy transition is for the good
Australia needs to reframe the whole debate about heading into a low-carbon future from culture warfare to something rational and positive.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Speed up, take ownership, and hit vaccine target
Vaccination has been slowed for lack of a national plan, a target, and a face to front up the effort. All of them are needed to bring public urgency.
- Opinion
- Platinum Year
‘White tie and tails Whitlam’ classes up the workers’ party
From the archives: as part of our Platinum 70 Year, we take a look back at AFR opinions on significant domestic and international events over the past seven decades.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Future growth needs open borders and supply-side reform
The so-called shock absorbers rolled out to hold the economy together have turned out to be more like a trampoline. But we can’t ignore the looming headwinds.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Social problems need solutions, not grand designs
Given the endless worthwhile social causes, that should encourage policymakers to focus such spending first on where it can have maximum effect.
May
- Opinion
- The AFR View
‘Anzac path’ to regional pushback against China
Jacinda Ardern has signed on to Scott Morrison’s strategy of regional pushback to protect the peace and stability of a free and independent Indo-Pacific from China’s power ambitions.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Victoria’s decline shows fiscal buffer needed in a crisis
As Victorians endure their fourth major lockdown, attention is being focused on the pre-pandemic performance of Victoria’s political system.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
The lessons from Victoria’s latest lockdown ordeal
The Victorian government cannot blame others for blows to the economy that hurt harder than they would elsewhere.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Rich List renews and repurposes
Recycled, regenerated, renewable: this year’s Australian Financial Review Rich List shows Australia’s richest people are repurposing business for sustainability.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
The false dawn for Australian atomic power
From the archives: as part of our Platinum 70 Year, we take a look back at the AFR View on significant domestic and international events over the past seven decades.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Why Australia didn’t go nuclear
In 1956, The Australian Financial Review enthused in an editorial about Australia’s nuclear future. By the early 1960s the Financial Review also highlighted the main obstacle: cheap and plentiful coal.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Melbourne outbreak shows need for vaccine urgency
The only way to be safe from the virus and guarantee that normal life is here to stay is by encouraging Australians to get vaccinated as quickly as possible.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Tech-neutral ‘green’ investment
Labor’s position on ‘green’ investments – which should be tech- and sector-neutral – is picking a political fight over something that should help, not hinder, Australia’s path to net zero.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Unity needed to tackle our greatest strategic challenge
Domestic politics and foreign policy do not mix in a heated relationship with China. It is time to find a bipartisan middle way.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Growth agenda needed to win back Labor base
The ALP struggles to retain its traditional heartland because, in a modern economy, blue-collar workers are the aspirational voters.
