Today
- Opinion
- Opinion
Quantum a better bet than burning a billion on solar panels
But even if this is the right place to deploy such a huge sum, we know too little about whether this was the best way to spend it.
- The AFR View
Yesterday
- Opinion
- Industrial relations
Labor green lights toxic bully-boys of the CFMEU
The political protection racket the modern ALP is running for the toxic behaviour of the CFMEU, which would be condemned in any other setting, is disgraceful.
- The AFR View
This Month
- Opinion
- Opinion
Woodside Energy’s part in BHP’s low-carbon transition
The irony is that “The Big Australian” has the financial resources to bid for Anglo American partly because its legacy fossil fuel assets are now on Woodside Energy’s books.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Chalmers’ narrow budget path is now in peril
The sudden change in the interest rate outlook this week could be political dynamite for the Albanese government and the budget.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
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
- Opinion
- Opinion
‘Decolonising’ Anzac Day’s revival
The day offers a welcome counterpoint in an age of fragmenting identity politics in which it is becoming more difficult to find agreement about Australia’s national identity.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Musk sets test for social media without boundaries
The sudden row between Australia and Elon Musk is a test of sovereign writ against the biggest companies – but also where government control of media should begin and end.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Chalmers’ puzzling budget strategy for year ahead
Ideally, the 2024 budget should be slightly contractionary or, at most, neutral to help the Reserve Bank deliver the difficult last mile of disinflation.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
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.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
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
- Opinion
- Opinion
Australia must pay the price for defence and deterrence
A generation of politicians who grew up with a post-Cold War peace dividend are now struggling to switch from welfare to warfare.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Greens’ supermarket inquiry a Canberra political freak show
Does anyone think the public interest was served by the back and forth over the best metric of Woolworths’ profitability and threatening Brad Banducci with six months in prison for contempt of parliament?
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Forensic judgment proves rape, debunks political cover-up
Justice Lee’s factual pushback at some of the unthinking cultural warfare that has overwhelmed politics and media in recent times has performed a great service.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- 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.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
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.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
The week Australia travelled further down the dead-end policy road
At the least, the Treasurer should join with whoever can claim to be an economic rationalist in this government to yell stop, wrong way, go back.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Future Made in Australia a regression to the past
Anthony Albanese’s new protection carries all the old risks of the old protection that took generations to dismantle.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Competition case for merger shake-up is unconvincing
Giving the ACCC bureaucrats more power might just add more red tape costs for little return. It would be more productive to focus on the obvious competition black spots.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
What comes after the China boom for Australia?
As China and other advanced economies suffer mutual disillusionment, Australia needs to figure out how it maintains its sweet spot in China’s economy.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
JAUKUS shows Australia is seeking security in Asia
Ironically, turning AUKUS into JAUKUS would move the pact closer to satisfying the national strategic interest test formulated by its chief Australian critic, Paul Keating.
- The AFR View