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Thousands join Anzac services as nation seeks to heal
Anzac Day was labelled a chance for Sydney to come together and heal after a series of terrifying knife attacks.
- Gus McCubbing
- Opinion
- Canberra Observed
Dutton’s atomic bet threatens Coalition chain reaction over climate
Rather than keep the heat on Labor’s handling of the cost-of-living pain as inflation stays high, the opposition leader’s nuclear venture risks becoming the story.
- Jacob Greber
Why China’s slowing economy is Australia’s problem
This week on The Fin podcast, North Asia correspondent Michael Smith talks about the changes in China over the past six years and what its slowing economy means for Australian prosperity.
Woodside climate plan sunk but Goyder survives
The proxy battle pitched Australia’s largest gas producer against activists that argue its path could tip the balance towards more dangerous climate change.
- Updated
- Ben Potter and Tom Rabe
Haircuts, dentist visits and movie tickets inflict inflation pain
Everyday activities are among the 31 common household purchases where year-ended inflation rose between December 2023 and March 2024.
- Michael Read
Budget reality check for Chalmers after high home-grown inflation
“Unrelenting” domestic price pressures boosted consumer inflation in the first three months of 2024, while Treasurer Jim Chalmers would not be drawn on whether the May budget would add to demand.
- Ronald Mizen and Liam Walsh
Opinion & Analysis
Tactical Woodside vote a metaphor for Australia’s low-carbon transition
Can chairman Richard Goyder and CEO Meg O’Neill crack the problem of shifting from a carbon-intensive resources company to a green one without destroying shareholder value?
Editorial
Why inflation is proving sticky on both sides of the Atlantic
What matters is not what is happening right now, but what will happen in the months or even years ahead, as past policy works through the system.
Columnist
Voting down Woodside’s climate plan a shareholder activism milestone
This is a pivotal moment for other climate-science-denying board directors, a signal to act on their fiduciary duties, or suffer the consequences personally.
Ugly CPI data shows why rate cuts are a distant prospect
CPI report suggests fears about sticky inflation are becoming a reality, leaving the RBA board’s decision last month to abandon its stated tightening bias looking premature.
Economics correspondent
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Tactical Woodside vote a metaphor for Australia’s low-carbon transition
Can chairman Richard Goyder and CEO Meg O’Neill crack the problem of shifting from a carbon-intensive resources company to a green one without destroying shareholder value?
- The AFR View
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Why inflation is proving sticky on both sides of the Atlantic
What matters is not what is happening right now, but what will happen in the months or even years ahead, as past policy works through the system.
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- Martin Wolf
- Opinion
- Climate policy
Voting down Woodside’s climate plan a shareholder activism milestone
This is a pivotal moment for other climate-science-denying board directors, a signal to act on their fiduciary duties, or suffer the consequences personally.
- Tim Buckley and Annemarie Jonson
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- Analysis
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Ugly CPI data shows why rate cuts are a distant prospect
CPI report suggests fears about sticky inflation are becoming a reality, leaving the RBA board’s decision last month to abandon its stated tightening bias looking premature.
- Michael Read
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Hot inflation will require an ASX rethink
ASX investors, who’ve bid up retail, banking and tech stocks, need to accept that rate cuts aren’t coming before Santa arrives.
- James Thomson
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Australia’s richest firms get $331m in grants to reduce emissions
The government has doled out $331 million to firms including Rio Tinto, Wesfarmers, Swiss giant Glencore and Rich Lister Dick Honan’s Manildra for decarbonisation projects.
- Ben Potter
Richard Goyder’s legacy is tarnished by his two biggest mistakes
Readers’ letters on how the Qantas chairman failed passengers; holes in the argument of a made in Australia champion; US aid’s boost to Ukraine; the real value of Anzac Day; and a Bondi victim’s service to humanity.
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Will Future Made in Australia push the RBA off the narrow path?
If the budget does deliver policy changes that add to demand, inflation will probably keep falling slowly and stay too high for the central bank’s inflation target.
- Paul Bloxham
- Opinion
- Climate policy
Australia can prosper under international carbon prices
The EU’s carbon border tax will create new opportunities for this country but only if the Australian government invests strategically in the right industries.
- Ingrid Burfurd
Labor will tax super savers twice under proposed ‘wealth tax’: Taylor
Double taxation was “a natural consequence” of Labor’s plan to tax unrealised gains under its proposed tax increase on super balances over $3 million, the shadow treasurer said.
- Hannah Wootton
- Opinion
- NSW budget
An unwise treasurer is losing NSW’s prized AAA rating
Treasurer Daniel Mookhey cannot blame GST payments. It’s his own rash spending and pay deals that are at fault.
- Updated
- Matt Kean
Economists dispute Chalmers’ downbeat growth tone
Leading economists have dismissed Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ pessimistic assessment of the global economy, and say it should not be used to justify inflation-boosting spending.
- Ronald Mizen
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Chalmers confronts Australia’s budget dilemma
Despite the global tensions and the national gamble on the “Future Made in Australia”, the treasurer is about to hand down another surplus next month.
- Jennifer Hewett
- Exclusive
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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.
- Ben Potter and Hannah Wootton
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
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.
- James Thomson
- Opinion
- Australian economy
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?
- Jonathan Wenig
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.
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.
- Mark Di Stefano
- Opinion
- Australian economy
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.
- Chris Bowen
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