Featured Opinion
Iran’s light show illuminates the real enemy of Mid East peace
Some Arab nations recognise that Iran is the biggest threat to peace in the Middle East. That is a reality which many in the West are blind too.
Editorial
Iran’s attack opens up a new world of risk
Iran’s drone and missile strike against Israel didn’t do much damage, but the potential response is unsettling the White House as well as global markets.
Columnist
Why bond markets are worried about a 1967-style ‘soft landing’
It’s rare for central banks to be able to pull off a “soft landing”, and even rarer for them to do so when official rates are below nominal economic growth.
Columnist
Forget Made in Australia: we should do the things we already do well
We can’t be sure what the industries of the future will be, so it’s more prudent to compete in fields where Australia already has a good reputation.
Economist
ChatGPT essay cheats are a menace to us all
Some universities are increasing face-to-face assessments to discourage AI cheating. Academics should be encouraged to expose the problem, not deterred from fixing it.
Columnist
Once more to the brink in the Middle East
As the tinder in the Middle East smoulders once more, much will depend on whether Netanyahu lights another match or follows Washington’s calls for restraint.
International editor
Regional banks dying a slow death
The country’s smaller banks have a bleak future due to higher cost of funds, excessive capital requirements, costly technology upgrades and lack of scale. But will regulators do anything about it?
Contributor
Four ways Australia can lift investment in manufacturing
Incentives and subsidies to make things in Australia will work only if the big policy settings are right as well.
Contributor
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Labor’s making merger law fit for a modern economy
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- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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- Fitness
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- Analysis
- Governance
The slow death of Magnis Energy shows plenty wrong with the ASX
Over many years, the EV play has shown nothing but contempt for shareholders, most of them small investors. In its inaction, so too has the market operator.
- Kylar Loussikian
Yesterday
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
‘Get ready for war’: Star chairman and CEO’s descent into madness
The embattled casino group told the world it was co-operating with its regulator. But behind the scenes, it was dreaming up a hare-brained scheme to sue them.
- Updated
- James Thomson
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
How a ‘like’ on a post about Bondi Junction tragedy can do harm
Readers’ letters on the need for care when discussing the weekend’s events, the place of design in Australia’s manufacturing push, buying climate time with crazy projects, and how the Nats are letting down rural communities.
- Opinion
- Digital Life
A router that will (eventually) make your home Wi-Fi fly
Can you save money and improve download speeds, both at the same time? With WiFi 7, we think you can.
- Updated
- John Davidson
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Market aftershocks from Iran’s attack depend on one thing
Investors are treading water as they wait for Israel’s response to the largely failed strike. But shareholders need to start thinking through two scenarios.
- Updated
- James Thomson
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- US Masters
Not even Greg Norman’s hysterical hubris can hide LIV’s collapse into periphery
Far from rescuing golf, he has plunged it into a profound crisis, where many of the game’s leading men are squirrelled away on a tour whose TV ratings are pathetically low.
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- Andrew Hobbs
- Opinion
- Investing
Where to shop for opportunities in the retail sector
Consumer spending may start to turn around from mid-year, throwing up opportunities in retail companies.
- Scott Haslem
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- The AFR View
Bondi Junction tragedy brings out the best
The carnage at Bondi Junction Plaza may have lessons for mental health management. But it was also a violent exception that proves the rule of a harmonious society.
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- Mental health
Drugs and mental illness a fatal mix
It is not uncommon for mental health patients to fall off the radar of authorities. But the dangers explode when sufferers come into contact with illegal drugs.
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- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Keating’s reforms fell short of making Australia a top economy
Readers’ letters on Paul Keating and Australia’s standing in the economic world, the myth of ever-growing productivity; magical thinking in the debate over Palestinian statehood; the market’s overreaction to inflation data; and the need for investment in quantum computing.
- Opinion
- Company mergers
Wrong to shield merger regulators from the scrutiny of the courts
Under the proposed merger laws the only recourse will be to the ACT. That’s worrying when you look at the history of head-scratching decisions by the ACCC.
- Zaven Mardirossian and Gabriel Sakkal
Iran is now caught up in a mess of its own making
The Tehran regime’s use of proxy forces has left it boxed into a regional fight that it does not really want.
- Patrick Gibbons
- Opinion
- Ageing
Turning 60 feels like 40 in Japan’s certain age crisis
Japan’s ageing population means you’re still young at 60. That’s great if you’ve just celebrated that birthday. For the country, it’s a problem.
- Updated
- Melanie Brock
- Opinion
- Interest rates
The Fed is becoming less fussed about high inflation
The market continues to be wrong-footed on US rates. The question is whether the Federal Reserve has shifted its focus to supporting growth over fighting inflation.
- Sebastian Mullins
- Opinion
- Investigation
James Mawhinney’s surveillance game of cat and mouse
While the Financial Review was following James Mawhinney’s investment schemes, it turns out he was trying to follow us.
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