Yesterday
- Opinion
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Europe’s populist tide hits new and dangerous high
The overarching danger of the governing failures by European elites that have fostered populism is a weakening of the Western alliance’s support for Ukraine.
- The AFR View
This Month
- Opinion
- Opinion
New age of war hangs over D-Day memories
If the democracies want to avoid the kind of sacrifices endured by the D-Day generation, then they need to show more resolve than they have.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Greens a danger to Australian multiculturalism
If left or right is allowed to politicise multiculturalism for completely cynical reasons, then it starts to unravel.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Modi’s reform wave falls short of majority
To reach the growth levels of China in its industrialising heyday, he will need to bring his new coalition partners along on a new wave of reform.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
The slump Australia must have after the bounce-back
Confusing revisions within the national accounts suggest that things are not as dire as the misleading talk about a per capita recession.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
ESG idealism runs into hard realities of execution
The end of cheap money to invest, the cost of living crisis, and energy price shock have dramatically changed the order of priority for customers, governments and investors.
- The AFR View
South Africa’s post-apartheid reckoning
The country that heroically freed itself of the colonial legacy of white minority rule in 1994 is now facing a political crossroads after Wednesday’s election.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Real wage pain with no productivity gain
Despite the big rises in the minimum wage over the past three years, it has not caught up with the growth in consumer prices since the pandemic.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Marles delivers right China message in right forum
The defence minister’s realistic assessment is that Beijing’s aggression is not only a threat but is undermining China’s legitimate self-interests that should be pursued as part of a peaceful and prosperous regional order.
- The AFR View
May
- Opinion
- Opinion
A felon in the White House should raise alarm
Donald Trump’s criminal conviction may not be fatal in America’s upside-down politics. But to the rest of the world it will matter a lot.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Ageing Rich Listers approach wealth dispersal watershed
Forty-five of the 200 Rich List entries, holding about $140 billion in wealth, are aged over 80.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
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
- Opinion
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
- 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
- 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
