Yesterday
- Opinion
- Opinion
Populism aside, questions hang over universities’ foreign student trade
The political risk confronting universities’ lucrative international students trade raises questions about their business model and the benefits for higher education.
- The AFR View
Qld’s 50¢ bus fares are a desperate political gimmick
Cutting public transport fares to 50¢ is another ratcheting up of a fiscally irresponsible political culture that expects governments to endlessly buy votes.
- The AFR View
This Month
- Opinion
- Opinion
ICC loses its moral bearings over Israel and Gaza
An each-way bet on the ICC’s war crimes charges against Israel adds to the incoherence of Labor’s position amid a fraying of the social fabric of multicultural Australia.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Cutting migrant intake is a soft target and dead-end strategy
Reducing migration will just exacerbate the housing shortages it is trying to fix. Higher education will be the collateral damage.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
What will fill the Tory-shaped hole in British politics?
Just as in Anthony Albanese’s blue-collar rhetoric, Brexit has pushed Keir Starmer’s Labour away from Tony Blair’s post-class modernisation and globalism.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
The cold war for Australia’s critical minerals future
Despite signalling Labor’s support for aligning with the US on economic security, Madeleine King is likely to want to keep the Chinese investment spigot open.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
From euphoria to subsidies to kick-start the next great mining hopes
An Australian mining industry more used to being threatened by super-profit tax raids is being offered handouts to kick-start its way into the low carbon era.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Hamas’ defeat, helping Ukraine win, best for West
The sooner Israel defeats Hamas, the better. And also the sooner the US focuses attention on helping Ukraine win the war, the better.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Budget and reply add up to a bad week for Australian prosperity
Both major parties are failing to meaningfully engage with the centrist growth agenda of incentive-sharpening policy reform and mostly disciplined macro policy that provided the foundation for Australia’s three decades of prosperity.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Budget kicks off a populist election season
The housing crisis demonstrates how both major parties insist there are easy answers where none exist.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Solar panels debunking makes case for critical minerals leg-up
Even in a world of geopolitical and supply chain risk, the old economic orthodoxies of international specialisation and comparative advantage still apply.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Chalmers’ budget boast overlooks Australia’s debt mountain
The substantial fiscal challenge from the budget is a forecast decade of deficits and highest plateau of federal government net debt for more than half a century.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Budget spending spree that locks in a decade of deficits
Given all the good luck since coming to office, there are no excuses for Labor not running successive substantial surpluses to repair the budget buffers and start repaying the pandemic debt at this point in the cycle.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Has Labor no shame about the CFMEU’s behaviour?
Who else would get away with the construction union’s intimidation? Where is the attorney-general, the treasurer, or the new National Anti-Corruption Commission?
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Lure global capital with internationally competitive tax reform
Rather than Jim Chalmers’ “new growth model”, the fair dinkum way to increase foreign investment would be to progress a genuine growth agenda.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Substantial surpluses, not bigger deficits, should be running at this point
Instead, Jim Chalmers has confirmed that forecast deficits will widen as Labor’s Future Made In Australia budget centrepiece rolls out subsidies for the green energy and advanced manufacturing subsides.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Australia wants more than the Lucky Country can deliver
Successive terms of trade booms – the envy of other nations – have allowed Australian governments to splurge. But now it seems that even that is not enough.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Sad halting of the press in WA
The Australian Financial Review has built a publishing model based on premium digital subscriptions. But it is still sad that from May 22, no one in Western Australia will be able to read a hard copy version.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Labor locks gas firmly into energy transition
The Future Gas Strategy reaffirms a strong role for gas, but despite the title it is light on ideas to get there.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
The digital health black hole must be fixed
The Productivity Commission’s report on the failure of My Health Record should concern all Australians not only as taxpayers, but as consumers in an ageing society.
- The AFR View
