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Big US pension funds, Aware want Richard Goyder off Woodside board
But AustralianSuper says it will back the businessman, even as it votes against the oil and gas giant’s climate plans, at a shareholder meeting on Wednesday.
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- Ben Potter and Hannah Wootton
Kevin Rudd and CNN put on a US tennis clinic
The former prime minister’s shaking mud off his polo and getting on with tennis diplomacy.
- 1 hr ago
- Mark Di Stefano
Why 3pc wage rises may become the new norm
New research from NAB forecasts productivity growth will remain at its lowest rate in more than 70 years, leading living standards to stagnate.
- Michael Read
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- Richard Goyder
Richard Goyder counts down the days at Woodside, Qantas and the AFL
The businessman faces a crucial vote at the oil and gas giant’s annual meeting. He’s already planning his exit from the highest-profile boards in the country.
- Patrick Durkin
Chalmers warns of ‘fraught and fragile’ outlook
Returning from Washington, the treasurer warned of a precarious global outlook, citing slower growth forecasts for China, Britain and Japan in the May budget.
- Ronald Mizen
Savers with $3m-plus super could pay double tax on earnings
Labor’s plan to increase the tax paid on earnings for super accounts with more than $3 million could sting savers twice, experts have suggested.
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- Hannah Wootton
Opinion & Analysis
Dr Copper doesn’t agree with Dr Chalmers’ growth outlook
Treasurer Jim Chalmers is talking down the state of global growth. But while the risks are real, not every indicator is so bearish.
Columnist
Goyder’s fight at Woodside highlights question of shareholder voice
Activist battles largely take place between big asset managers and their proxy advisers. Is it time their retail investors got more of a say in what they do?
Corporate lawyer
Chalmers fails to justify Future Made in Australia spending
Readers’ letters on the Future Made in Australia Act; X’s refusal to take down video of last week’s violence in Sydney; double taxation of super funds; and a more sophisticated Australian economy.
Contributor
Let’s not waste the green energy opportunity
The government’s industry policy is not some throwback to the Deakinite settlement. It’s quite the opposite.
Minister for Climate Change and Energy
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History shows Australia needs a strong Productivity Commission
The Financial Review helped forge the political and intellectual opposition to the nation’s 20th-century industry protectionism, which was once a bipartisan article of Australian faith, akin to the fair go.
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Green antics give corporates nightmares
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Jim Chalmers’ office marks its own homework
The whole point of this exercise was to suggest the IMF was floored with Chalmers’ performance. In truth, the IMF wasn’t even considering it.
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Meet the doctors whose virtual ED is easing the load on hospitals
In outer Melbourne, a virtual emergency department has offered 250,000 patients treatment and created a model to help keep ageing Baby Boomers out of hospital.
- Tom Burton
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Forget solar panels, let’s focus on Australian-made pharmaceuticals
Readers’ letters on a better Future Made in Australia idea; judges’ claims to avoid a super tax; the real hurdle for young people buying a home; the irony of Dubai floods; and an outstanding expat.
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Appeasing Iran has proven weak and provocative
If Tehran’s power can be contained and then reduced, the Middle East will be a much more peaceful place.
- Alexander Downer
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Future made in Australia critics show old orthodoxies die hard
The existential climate challenge is Australia’s opportunity to reverse the policy settings that hollowed out manufacturing.
- Roy Green
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A traumatic week, and a need for calmer politics
Murder in Bondi Junction and terrorism in western Sydney have come to a country already demoralised by a cost-of-living crisis. Time for politicians and other opinion formers to put the hyperbole away.
- The AFR View
Why the RBA won’t cut rates soon; Supermarket stoush; Misguided push for Australian made
This week, James and editor-in-chief Michael Stutchbury discuss the data the RBA will be mulling, examine how the supermarket inquiry turned nasty, and ask whether the Made in Australia push is doomed.
Booming AI demand threatens electricity supply
Regulators are scrambling to factor the explosive growth of data centres into demand projections as one network warns of a 250 per cent surge in power needs.
- Ben Potter
Forced supermarket break-ups ‘a dopey idea’
Former Productivity Commission chairman Peter Harris questions legality of such an arrangement, citing the clause in the Constitution that saved The Castle’s Darryl Kerrigan.
- Ronald Mizen
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- Carbon challenge
New Malthusians are wrong: a rich world will need less energy
We will need to generate only half the energy we do now to replace today’s electricity use, lift the global South, and feed all those data centres. So rejoice.
- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
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- Interest rates
The global narrative on rate cuts has just been rewritten
Treasurer Jim Chalmers and the other attendees at this week’s meeting of the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors may be suffering from whiplash.
- Michael Read
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- Australian economy
Why the inflation beast is so tough to tame
Price pressures are just not going away, with rising home values and rents a big part of the problem. That has big ramifications for interest rates.
- Karen Maley
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America’s Superman foreign policy flies again
The hard realism of Asian allies about America’s direction must jostle with the return of uncompromising American unilateralism.
- James Curran
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Why Schizophrenia no longer has to be a life sentence
Until the 1950s, there was no effective therapy and painful experimental treatments, such as brain surgery and sulphur injections, failed. That’s all changed.
- Jill Margo
