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Investment banker David Williams still going rogue
“We were not aware he would say such things,” the Bionic Institute’s Robert Klupacs wrote in his apology.
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- Myriam Robin
GDP growth flatlined in March quarter: NAB
National Australia Bank economists predict GDP figures this week could show economic activity ground to a halt at the start of the year, taking annual growth to just 1 per cent.
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- Michael Read
Chance of Taiwan’s peaceful ‘reunification’ eroded, warns China
China’s Defence Minister Dong Jun said Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party was incrementally pursuing separatism.
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- Michael Read
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Labor shelves overhaul of ‘sophisticated investor’ test
The changes are said to have been put on ice until at least after the next election, amid fierce backlash from tech start-ups and some funds managers.
- Michael Read
‘Every country is worried about what’s happening in the US’
ESG champion David Atkin runs a global organisation with 5300 signatories that manage a total of $US121 trillion – about half of global funds under management.
- Ben Potter
The man who would help Trump upend the global economy
As a potential US Treasury secretary, Robert Lighthizer has more than trade policy to revolutionise.
- Edward Alden
Opinion & Analysis
Criticism of ‘stingy’ Baby Boomers misses the point
Readers’ letters on generational attacks; the “war” between banks and mortgage brokers; robots and the Great Barrier Reef; Grant Hackett’s leadership; and Pauline Hanson’s silence.
Contributor
How higher US tariffs are helping China’s competitors
American tariffs on imports from China will redirect economic activity toward third-country suppliers considered allies.
Development economist
A carbon tax and dividend scheme could be the answer
Readers’ letters on the pressing need for a carbon tax; why we shouldn’t fear AI; in defence of mortgage brokers; and the reality of climate change.
Contributor
Cutting company tax is not the only way to spur investment
Recognising the cost of equity in the tax system is the equitable, effective and productive way to achieve corporate tax reform.
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Criticism of ‘stingy’ Baby Boomers misses the point
Readers’ letters on generational attacks; the “war” between banks and mortgage brokers; robots and the Great Barrier Reef; Grant Hackett’s leadership; and Pauline Hanson’s silence.
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- Opinion
- Foreign relations
How higher US tariffs are helping China’s competitors
American tariffs on imports from China will redirect economic activity toward third-country suppliers considered allies.
- Arvind Subramanian
Brookfield lands Origin Plan B with $10b Neoen bid
The French utility’s pipeline makes it the largest owner of renewable energy in Australia, six months after Origin dismissed the Canadian investment group.
- Ben Potter
Treasury boss warns PM: ‘Enormous benefits’ from Chinese solar panels
Commenting on the government’s Future Made in Australia green industrial subsidies, Steven Kennedy says Australia ‘must not be distracted by ideas, frankly, over many decades, have been shown won’t work’.
- John Kehoe
GDP growth tipped to slump to 1.1pc, but don’t expect a rate cut
Economists expect GDP figures next week could show annual growth slumped to just 1.1 per cent in March, after consumer spending and home building went backwards.
- Michael Read
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
A carbon tax and dividend scheme could be the answer
Readers’ letters on the pressing need for a carbon tax; why we shouldn’t fear AI; in defence of mortgage brokers; and the reality of climate change.
- Opinion
- Tax reform
Cutting company tax is not the only way to spur investment
Recognising the cost of equity in the tax system is the equitable, effective and productive way to achieve corporate tax reform.
- Robert Breunig and Kristen Sobeck
Inflation ‘clearly’ still strong: RBA chief economist
Sarah Hunter says price pressures remain strong, after hotter-than-expected inflation data led investors to push rate cuts to December 2025.
- Michael Read
‘Radical, illogical’ cap on super ASX stakes would cost savers
Instead of helping Australians buy ASX shares, a cap as proposed by Andrew Bragg would just help foreign capital own more of the market, industry experts warned.
- Hannah Wootton
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- World War II
Why we commemorate D-Day 80 years on
The Red Army did most of the dying and killing necessary to smash Hitler’s Wehrmacht but the Normandy landings were the decisive military event of war in the West.
- Max Hastings
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- Chanticleer
The ASX is waking up to the RBA’s wicked inflation problem
Equity market valuations assume a soft landing, but inflation data suggests the RBA has a big problem on its hands, as CPI remains sticky despite weak spending.
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- James Thomson
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Global expansion vision survives Lendlease exit
It’s a myth that Australian companies don’t do well overseas. Yet, it is hard not to be disappointed at this ebbing of an Australian company with vision in its blood from the start.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Why rate cuts look even further away
The latest inflation figures look like bad news for interest rates, even if the government doesn’t agree.
- Jennifer Hewett
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- Interest rates
No rate cuts until December 2025 as inflation stops falling
Investors have pushed back the timing for the RBA’s first cash rate cut after inflation edged higher for a second straight month.
- Michael Read
- Opinion
- Carbon pricing
Taxpayers are poorer without a carbon tax
Instead of imposing a carbon levy on polluters to fund big personal income tax cuts, governments are gambling taxpayer money on climate and energy projects.
- John Kehoe
- Opinion
- Population
How the world went from baby boom to baby bust
Helping people have the children they want in ways that fit with their plans should be a focus of policy. It is essential to help women combine careers with children.
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- Martin Wolf
Next Capital snaps up majority stake in education biz Scentia
The mid-market private equity firm has inked a deal to acquire a majority stake in the career training group which controls the Australian Institute of Management.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
The super funds where customers are retiring faster than new ones join
The research from KPMG comes as the $3.6 trillion superannuation industry heads towards the point it is paying out more cash than it brings in.
- Hannah Wootton
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Husic’s corporate tax call revives Hawke-Keating Labor spirit
Rather than have his office rebuke his cabinet colleague for comments made at the Summit, the treasurer should start making the pro-business and pro-worker case for reform.
- The AFR View
The disease detectives trying to keep the world safe from bird flu
Frontline work in low-income countries is increasingly vital to a global system to detect viruses that jump between animals and humans, the way COVID-19 did.
- Stephanie Nolen
