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Could ‘HECS-for-solar’ slash power bills and save climate goal?
Scientist Saul Griffith has a bold plan that could slash your power bill by $5000 a year, cut a quarter of household emissions, and employ thousands of people. Politicians on both sides are listening. Could it work?
- Jacob Greber
‘Mathematically challenged’: States’ spat over GST gets personal
Even states such as Victoria and Queensland that would probably benefit from NSW’s push to distribute GST on a per-person basis say the proposal is unfair.
- Michael Read, Gus McCubbing and John Kehoe
Why Brookfield wants Optus | Myer boss’ big test | Could AI be deflationary?
This week, James and Anthony examine what SingTel could gain from selling Optus, look at whether an ex-Qantas exec could grow Myer, and discuss two tectonic shifts in markets that will decide the next decade.
ASX falls 1.5pc | Tectonic shifts to decide the next decade | How Blundstone conquered the UK
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
US retail sales miss expectations; producer prices accelerate
The duelling data provide the Federal Reserve with more reason to delay the start of a pivot to interest rate cuts.
- Lucia Mutikani
Super funds’ director picks may be conflicted: Chronican
The warning comes as AustralianSuper CEO Paul Schroder says his fund is reserving its right to put a director on Origin’s board, and as the funds train up cohorts of future directors.
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- Hannah Wootton
Opinion & Analysis
Household energy plan offers fix for both sides of politics
The “HECS for household electrification” concept could end 15 years of turmoil over climate and energy policy.
Senior correspondent
GST system is paying for lost principles
The GST formula was meant to take the politics out of the system. Now we should be asking if the incentives were wrong in the first place.
Editorial
Why Australia faces hard choices and hard work to grow
From decarbonisation to digital transformation to new geopolitical risks, there are a lot of potential speed bumps ahead. And no guarantee of success.
Columnist
The real issue at the heart of Employment Hero’s super stoush
The battle between the start-up and industry fund Hostplus has many juicy elements, but it is how the super sector wields its power that is most interesting.
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- Carbon challenge
Household energy plan offers fix for both sides of politics
The “HECS for household electrification” concept could end 15 years of turmoil over climate and energy policy.
- Jacob Greber
Yesterday
- Opinion
- The AFR View
GST system is paying for lost principles
The GST formula was meant to take the politics out of the system. Now we should be asking if the incentives were wrong in the first place.
- The AFR View
- Analysis
- Business Summit
Why Australia faces hard choices and hard work to grow
From decarbonisation to digital transformation to new geopolitical risks, there are a lot of potential speed bumps ahead. And no guarantee of success.
- Jennifer Hewett
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
The real issue at the heart of Employment Hero’s super stoush
The battle between the start-up and industry fund Hostplus has many juicy elements, but it is how the super sector wields its power that is most interesting.
- James Thomson
This Month
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Rock star economists are prophets with nothing to say
This week’s sharpest economic analysis came not from left-leaning economists on tour in Australia, but from BlackRock global strategist Wei Li at The Australian Financial Review Business Summit.
- The AFR View
Bowen mulls extension of plug-in hybrid vehicle tax break
With many Australians still reluctant to jump into full-blown EV ownership, Chris Bowen is considering extending a tax benefit for plug-in hybrid buyers.
- Jacob Greber
NSW push to ditch GST formula
NSW Premier Chris Minns wants to tear up the nearly 50-year-old system of distributing federal tax money between states after claiming to be dudded in the latest GST carve up.
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- Michael Read
How ‘deliberate reflection’ and being a ‘list zealot’ help this leader
Competition expert Professor Caron Beaton-Wells runs up to eight lists on her phone and manages them ruthlessly. “That immediately makes me feel like it’s all manageable”.
- Tom Burton
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Mariana Mazzucato’s mission economy is moonshine
The only problem with the message the international economist preached in Australia is that government is terrible, and always has been, at moonshot missions.
- Toby Walsh
- Opinion
- School funding
No class envy in the classroom
The panic over government-school enrolment rates should not undermine Australia’s successful mixed model of school funding.
- Dallas McInerney
Super pool to hit $14trn, but a handful of funds will control it
A new report by Mercer predicts that there would be just 77 super funds on the market within four years, but warns funds need to be more proactive in their governance to stay competitive.
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- Hannah Wootton
- Opinion
- Income tax
How we’ve lost the plot on tax and profit populism
Progressive activists have become so obsessed with distribution of income and profits, without giving any thought to first maximising the economic pie to be redistributed.
- John Kehoe
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Congressional horsetrading over AUKUS is not ‘optimal’
While this should not be misinterpreted as proof that AUKUS is dead in water, that the subs deal is once again caught up in how Washington “works” is far from optimal.
- The AFR View
Dutton’s nuclear plan has more politics than science or economics
Readers’ letters on the Coalition’s push for nuclear power; four-year fixed terms for parliament; and the use of reputation managers by business leaders.
- Analysis
- GST
The real travesty of the WA GST deal
When we should be debating either broadening or raising the GST, we are instead discussing whether taxpayers should continue subsidising Australia’s richest state.
- Michael Read
- Opinion
- Gender pay gap
Women don’t ‘choose’ to work less – there is no choice
The “motherhood penalty” in Australia is higher than our peers. It’s dragging on national productivity.
- Gordon Cleveland and Georgie Dent
Liontown’s $550m debt deal | Miners’ historic ‘same job same pay’ bid | AUKUS mugged by ugly reality
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
When the minister met the ‘mischievous’: What Wong said to Curran
Foreign Minister Penny Wong parried with James Curran at The Australian Financial Review Business Summit this week. This is an edited transcript of that discussion.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Four-year terms to end short-termism
New Business Council of Australia president Geoff Culbert pushed the idea at The Australian Financial Review Business Summit to “break out of the jail of short-term thinking” in Australian politics.
- The AFR View
‘Never say never’: $150b super giant not pushing for board seats, yet
Aware Super boss Deanne Stewart says she prefers ‘private conversations’ with companies to encourage action on issues such as climate change, but did not rule out stronger interventions.
- Hannah Wootton and Gus McCubbing
