Opinion
Supermarkets
Why Woolworths is trying to hide its light under a bushel
Welcome to the new era where good news is bad news, especially if you are an Australian supermarket chain, and would like to bury how well your local stores are going.
- by Elizabeth Knight
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Supermarkets
The government’s motherhood move on groceries will be tested
The risk for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is that allegations of price gouging might prove wide of the mark.
- by Elizabeth Knight
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ABC
He’s often the smartest person in the room – but he doesn’t always read it
The ABC should be battening down the outdoor furniture because Hurricane Kim is about to make landfall.
- by Elizabeth Knight
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Commodity prices
Australia is right in the thick of a critical minerals problem
The critical minerals party music has now stopped, and the mop-up is ugly.
- by Elizabeth Knight
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Mark McInnes
Retail rainmaker Mark McInnes seals the deal with a different self-made billionaire
It is probably no accident that news about McInnes joining billionaire Brett Blundy’s retail empire coincided with a 3.5 per cent fall in Myer’s share price where his former boss, Solomon Lew, is a key shareholder.
- by Elizabeth Knight
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Aviation
The one thing Qantas must fix to win back loyalty
Not since the massive peso devaluation crisis of South America in the 1990s have we seen such a currency collapse.
- by Elizabeth Knight
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AI
Is AI coming for your job? Statistically, I am at risk
There is something democratic about the next-generation AI revolution - this time blue-collar workers are safer than those in white-collar jobs.
- by Elizabeth Knight
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Environmental activism
Santos win reveals the environmental movement’s damaging own-goal
The clear message is that environmental groups need to pick their battles more wisely.
- by Elizabeth Knight
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Billionaires
For some billionaires, limitless funds promote extreme behaviour – and that’s a risk
The wealth of the three richest Australians, Gina Rinehart, Andrew Forrest and Harry Triguboff, has more than doubled since 2020, at a rate of $1.5 million an hour.
- by Elizabeth Knight
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Bitcoin
Everyone’s invited to the bitcoin party – and the host’s not happy
Strangely, the only group that wasn’t donning party hats and blowing whistles was the US securities regulator itself.
- by Elizabeth Knight
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Inflation
Australians collectively exhale as inflation slows more than expected
There was nothing in Wednesday’s November inflation data that would provide an incentive or excuse to raise rates in three weeks.
- by Elizabeth Knight