Yesterday
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Policy contradictions threatening return to low inflation
The Australian currency’s depreciation follows hopes the new oil price pressures would prompt the new governor to do more to shore up the Reserve Bank’s low inflation credibility.
This Month
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Bullock opts for calm continuity
The Australian Financial Review called for Michele Bullock to send a clear signal that the board was alert to the new danger. If necessary, Ms Bullock and the board will need to turn words into action.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Greatest AFL and NRL grand finals ever heap pressure on rugby union
Australia is fortunate to have a plurality of football codes that produce amazing sporting contests and spectacles.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Stopgap fails to discipline US deficit and debt
The Trumpian isolationist tone to seemingly the only loser in the funding deal, aid for Ukraine, sums up the interest in getting on top of the budget problem.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
China card played on Australia’s Timor-Leste front porch
The task for Labor’s Pacific diplomacy is now to win back the lost ground in the independent sovereign state that Australia helped to found.
September
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Weakest, strongest governors provide lessons for RBA
The RBA review’s recommendation for separate governance and monetary policy boards leaves open the possibility of a chairman rubbing up against the governor.
- Updated
- Opinion
- The AFR View
The challenges chipping away at the PM’s power
If the Voice goes down on October 14, Anthony Albanese will have to turn his full attention to grappling with the inflation and cost of living issues.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
The who, why and what of the PwC tax leak scandal
Finding a way to straighten out the structural issue would be the constructive way for the entire professional services sector to move on from a bad patch.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Policy failure at the root of Qantas furore
It is ultimately up to the airline’s shareholders to decide whether the Qantas leadership can repair itself or a clean break is required.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Daniel Andrews’ populist legacy of division, debt and darkness
The secret to the polarising success of the Victorian premier was a canny populism, despite his constant mantra about doing the right thing, not what was popular.
- Updated
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Employment white paper’s glaring IR black hole
It is not a credible exercise and is frankly embarrassing that Australia’s centre-left party of government can’t confront the question of how Australia’s workplaces can be liberated to negotiate win-win agreements.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Loss of gloss exposes Labor’s economic agenda
A national tragedy is looming as Labor’s high risk of proposal for constitutional recognition looks headed to defeat next month.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Call out Putinesque India
It should go without saying, but Narendra Modi’s mystical one-world vision of India’s global leadership should not include extra-judicial killings of members of the Indian diaspora living in foreign lands.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
There may not be another mogul like Rupert Murdoch
As a business owner, the Australian media magnate showed unusual foresight in a tough and politically contentious industry.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Not the apolitical inquiry to COVID-19 lessons Australia needs
Anthony Albanese has undermined what ought to be an examination of what went right, what went wrong and the lessons Australian should draw.
- Updated
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Victoria points in right housing direction
Victoria’s Airbnb tax is essentially a gimmick, but freeing up the planning restrictions on new housing supply is pointing in the right direction.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Bowen protests too much on nuclear option
The political problem for the energy minister is voters are warming to the idea that small reactors could provide reliable backup for intermittent renewables.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Mookhey’s first budget locks NSW in a debt trap
Treasurer Daniel Mookhey talked a big game ahead of the first Labor budget in NSW in 12 years, but he has failed to back it up.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Share information and manage cyber risks transparently
The string of attacks has been a wake-up call across business and government about increasing cyber vigilance, as reflected at The Australian Financial Review Cyber Summit
