Featured Opinion
The Matildas delivered. Will business and government?
The nation’s love affair with the Matildas has changed the rules of the game for women’s sport. Will it change the money?
Columnist
If nuclear power stacks up overseas, why wouldn’t it in Australia?
Canada, the US, UK and Japan are incorporating small modular reactors into net zero energy transitions, so that nuclear power can back up intermittent renewables.
Editorial
Hellish co-workers another excuse to WFH
The pandemic eased the scourge of the loud or smelly colleague, but the return to the office is bringing new woes.
Columnist
How to stop Biden hurting our renewable industries
The Future Fund helps Australia to match the distorting largesse now being handed out by the Biden administration.
Former Labor minister and economist
Best help for clean industries is getting the basics right
Australia cannot come close to matching the massive US climate subsidies. The response should be to remove self-imposed handbrakes on productivity, investment, and global competitiveness.
Editorial
University funding plan is a game-changing own goal
Forcing higher education to tax itself to fund Australia’s advanced research is a nonsensical non-starter of an idea.
Higher education leader
BCA calls for smarter choices, urgent action
The council warns that Australia can’t just rely on continued good luck to create economic success in a new global era of decarbonisation, protectionism and extreme national competition. That requires hard, smart choices for what we do best.
Columnist
Coal power stations could have new lives with gas
Converting Australia’s coal-fired electricity plants to gas would make more sense than trying to keep them going, and could help Australia’s faltering energy transition.
Indigenous advocate
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Charter Hall’s David Harrison says history provides a good guide to how the pressures in the office property market will be resolved.
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Yesterday
- Opinion
- Big four
The New Zealand market isn’t quite as grim as CBA has you believe
Kiwi bankers have hit back at the claim by CBA boss Matt Comyn that the New Zealand mortgage market is now offering unsustainable returns.
- Karen Maley
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Ontario nuclear model may not suit Australia
Canadian nuclear energy plan, SMRs, market’s role; threat to Victorian landscape; union seat on RBA board; CFMEU, Labor conference and Voice; Australia’s role in Timor-Leste.
- Opinion
- Tech Observed
Telcos struggle for public sympathy in big tech battle
The telco sector will open a can of worms if it goes after big tech for more payments, and it may struggle to win the argument.
- Paul Smith
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
What we learnt: Westpac, Ampol, NIB, Breville
Ampol gets some feedback on its retail plans, Westpac’s costs rise, Breville toasts its inventory, and we meet America’s mortgage prisoners.
- Anthony Macdonald and James Thomson
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Ampol walks the fine line between dividends and growth
Ampol has kept some capital up its sleeve, at the same time as one of its competitors is up for sale. Is it a coincidence?
- Anthony Macdonald
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Why your insurance bill is only going one way
IAG boss Nick Hawkins is fighting cost pressures on two fronts. Claims cost inflation may well moderate, but climate-related costs are a different story.
- James Thomson
- Opinion
- FIFA Women's World Cup
Women’s soccer is just starting to roar
England and Spain are home to the two richest soccer leagues. From a business and marketing perspective, it was the dream Women’s World Cup final.
- Matthew Brooker
- Opinion
- Consulting
The public service still needs consultants – but far fewer of them
The use of external contractors has gone too far, but reform shouldn’t wind back the clock for answers. The challenge is to get the balance right.
- Andrew Podger
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Inside Solomon Lew’s dramatic shake-up
The shock departure of Premier Investments boss Richard Murray has set off a chain reaction inside the retail empire.
- James Thomson
- Opinion
- Privacy
Understanding unsexy law reform could turn you into a business superstar
With privacy law reform imminent, executives who seize the opportunity to take proactive measures today will set themselves up to be hailed as heroes.
- Adam Barty
- Opinion
- Style
The four women who proved fashion can increase your wealth and power
Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista brought their industry to life and gave it dimension beyond the runway.
- Lauren Sams
- Opinion
- Motoring
Toys for the big boys: Father’s Day motoring gift guide
Merch, gadgets, even a full-size electric version of his favourite boyhood remote-control car. What else could a dad possibly want?
- Tony Davis
- Opinion
- Defence
Defence needs to harness the power of private capital
Defence’s next campaign should be making national security an attractive asset class for investors.
- Hayley Channer
This Month
- Opinion
- Productivity
New BCA boss has an uphill battle ahead of him
When one minister’s response to the BCA’s blueprint for changing the economy is an eye-roll, it shows incoming chief executive Bran Black faces a challenge prosecuting his case.
- Ronald Mizen
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Australia must diversify its economy and lead on decarbonisation
Global industry policy is being reshaped, led by the US investment in the energy transition. The National Reconstruction Fund should play an important role here.
- Tim Reed
- Opinion
- Inside China
China threatens to follow Japan’s path of meteoric rise and stagnation
Investors fear the Chinese economy lacks a growth engine, now that infrastructure and property are no longer driving activity.
- Karen Maley
- Opinion
- Soft commodities
India key in recipe to avoid global food crisis
Rice and wheat shortages now threaten a world food emergency to rival the last one in 2007–08
- Peter Timmer
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Yes, No and the widening gap
The Voice: Amanda Stoker’s arguments, service delivery, Labor’s role; Callan Park NIMBYs v YIMBYs; government’s single aim; growth obsession; climate threat; nuclear power.
