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The biggest stories in business, markets and politics, and why they matter, explained by the best financial journalists in the country.

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Lisa Murray

Review editor

Lisa Murray

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Alex Gow

Podcast producer

Alex Gow

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Latest Episode

Mike Cannon-Brookes and the battle for AGL

Columnist James Thomson on what Tuesday’s boardroom fight means for AGL, Australia and why big companies around the world are watching closely.

How start-up Barrenjoey became banking’s top dog in two years

Hear the audacious story behind Barrenjoey, the first home-grown investment bank since Macquarie, why its attracted controversy and what might happen as deals stall and rates rise.

  • Updated

October

The side that ‘freezes first loses’: War in the Ukrainian winter

Special correspondent Misha Zelinsky talks about what it’s like covering the war on the ground as Ukrainians prepare for their biggest test yet – winter.

‘Energy prices is the big killer. They know it’

Political editor Phillip Coorey on Labor’s “monumental challenges”; energy prices to be a “real killer”; does Treasurer Jim Chalmers even get along with the PM?

  • Updated
Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (right) with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Tokyo in September.

Japanese PM to seek energy guarantee from Albanese

Amid concerns in Tokyo of rising “energy nationalism” in Australia, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will want personal assurances from Anthony Albanese.

  • Updated
  • Phillip Coorey
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has warned of spending pressures and that revenue windfalls are only temporary.

$150b budget windfall tipped from mining, jobs and weak dollar

The federal budget will be boosted by soaring commodity prices, strong employment numbers and a devalued currency, but the boon is likely to be temporary.

  • John Kehoe and Peter Ker
Can Jim Chalmers rise to be a great treasurer like Paul Keating was?

The three big budget tests Jim Chalmers must pass

The federal budget next Tuesday is the first big opportunity for Jim Chalmers to show the nation what sort of treasurer he is.

  • John Kehoe

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