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US, European nations reach deal to end digital-tax dispute
The UK, France, Italy, Spain and Austria agreed to withdraw their digital service taxes if and when the full global tax deal comes into force.
- 20 mins ago
- Christopher Condon, Marton Eder and William Horobin
Australia in the 1960s: the making of a mining boom
Australia’s wool-led economy was transformed as mining exploration took off and export markets opened up in Asia. Three key players led the charge.
- 34 mins ago
- Andrew Clark
The biggest corporate collapse of the 1960s
Electrical retailer H.G. Palmer had 150 stores in the early ’60s and a ‘live now, pay later’ business model. But it failed in spectacular fashion.
- 34 mins ago
- Andrew Clark
Companies brace for fierce battle to attract workers
Companies will compete fiercely with each other to fill more than 500,000 positions in the coming months as Australia’s two largest cities roar back to life.
- Ronald Mizen
Wage pressures now inflationary flashpoint in developed economies
Emboldened by staff shortages, rising energy prices and living costs, employees are increasingly butting heads with their employers over salaries.
- Delphine Strauss
Retail super lowers admin fees, but still twice cost of industry funds
But the cheapest retail funds are now as low cost as the cheapest not-for-profit funds, research shows.
- Michael Read
Opinion & Analysis
How oil fever and the computer age changed Australia in the 1960s
Mining expansion, new technologies, thrills and spills in the sharemarket, a sharp political shift and cracks in the White Australia Policy laid the foundations for a national makeover. This is the second of a seven-part decade-by-decade series on the growth of modern Australia.
Senior writer
The dream decade that produced modern Australia
The 1960s were a decade of optimism during which Australia swapped the sheep’s back for massive resources industries. Ironically, some of it was financed by an old foe.
Editorial
Boris Johnson is more honest on climate than Scott Morrison
The British PM’s boosterism is well known. But unlike his Australian counterpart, he has not hidden the cost of net zero emissions from the public.
Columnist
Australia’s choice about China has been long in the making
Australian leaders and strategic analysts have been quietly hedging for the day when China decided to put its authoritarianism ahead of partnership.
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Mining expansion, new technologies, thrills and spills in the sharemarket, a sharp political shift and cracks in the White Australia Policy laid the foundations for a national makeover. This is the second of a seven-part decade-by-decade series on the growth of modern Australia.
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The dream decade that produced modern Australia
The 1960s were a decade of optimism during which Australia swapped the sheep’s back for massive resources industries. Ironically, some of it was financed by an old foe.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Climate policy
Boris Johnson is more honest on climate than Scott Morrison
The British PM’s boosterism is well known. But unlike his Australian counterpart, he has not hidden the cost of net zero emissions from the public.
- John Roskam
Busy Bees buys New Zealand’s Provincial for $NZ160 million
Ontario Teachers Pension plan-owned early childhood education provider Busy Bees has acquired New Zealand-based group Provincial Education.
- Anthony Macdonald, Yolanda Redrup and Kanika Sood
- Opinion
- China relations
Australia’s choice about China has been long in the making
Australian leaders and strategic analysts have been quietly hedging for the day when China decided to put its authoritarianism ahead of partnership.
- Fergus Hanson
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
The vaccine system is broken – but COVID-19 shows us how to fix it
Rather than throwing money around in a crisis, governments and multilateral groups should make it more profitable for companies to tackle developing country and rare diseases all the time.
- Brooke Masters
Australia has no plan to deal with health impacts of climate change
The Australian government is leaving its citizens exposed and vulnerable to rising temperatures without adaptation or mitigation plans in place.
- Jill Margo
- Analysis
- US politics
Meet Joe Manchin, America’s Joel Fitzgibbon on steroids
Coming from coal country and sometimes a thorn in their parties’ sides, Labor’s Joel Fitzgibbon and US Democrat Joe Manchin have a lot in common when it comes to climate change.
- Updated
- Matthew Cranston
- Analysis
- JobKeeper
How JobKeeper blew billions but saved the economy
A new Treasury report mounts a robust defence of the rescue package, which was rolled out on assumptions that proved too pessimistic.
- John Kehoe
Mike and Annie Cannon-Brookes pledge $1.5b to limit global warming
The technology power couple have promised to give away some of their personal wealth to help keep the increase in world temperatures to 1.5 degrees.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
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Now to the debate on actually hitting net zero by 2050
Neither Australia’s main parties nor most of the 120 heads of government who will meet in Glasgow actually have a plan for reaching net zero emissions by 2050.
- The AFR View
NSW first off the mark with a pilot to deliver mRNA vaccines
NSW was first to scrap quarantine, now it is first with a facility to develop a local RNA industry.
- Jill Margo
Singapore energy regulator steps up as volatility topples retailers
Spiking prices are forcing retailers out of the market and the regulator is stepping in to ensure energy supplies remain secure.
- Updated
- Emma Connors
Just 500 public tickets for Melbourne Cup reopening
Just 500 people from the public will be able to get their hands on a Melbourne Cup ticket, despite it being billed as Victoria’s coming out party.
- Patrick Durkin
- Opinion
- Climate policy
In the developing world, the chat about climate change is different
No one can do much about climate change if they are trapped in poverty already. Australia can help to fix both challenges.
- Tanveer Ahmed
- Opinion
- Australian economy
The tremors from Evergrande will rumble on for Australia
The real estate giant’s problems will not trigger a financial crisis, but they show that China’s economy must change, and that will have long-term implications for Australia.
- John Kehoe
Fed’s Waller ‘greatly concerned’ about inflation risk
If inflation expectations start to get out of kilter with that of the Federal Reserve, then the central bank will need to ‘take action’.
- Updated
- Matthew Cranston
- Opinion
- Glasgow summit
COP26 is the real thing and not a drill
While there seems to be a clear path towards a zero-emissions energy economy, it is a really difficult one. It is hard technically and even harder politically.
- Martin Wolf
How to rethink wealth creation (and opportunity)
Mariana Mazzucato says narrow objectives such as how to commercialise university research are like sex - if you want it too much, it won’t happen.
- Julie Hare
