Today
- Opinion
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Poll shows the political risk to net zero
Reigniting the climate policy wars for short-term political gain will just make the longer-term challenge of transforming Australia’s carbon-intensive economy even harder, longer, and more costly.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Chalmers might make right decision on banking
After Queensland Labor Treasurer Cameron Dick backed the ANZ-Suncorp merger, it’s hard to see how a Queensland-based federal Labor Treasurer would not.
- The AFR View
This Month
- Opinion
- Opinion
Setka’s AFL square-up out of bounds
What amounts to an appalling abuse of union power to blackmail a third party, and make a former public servant unemployable just for doing his job, must surely be against the law.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Australia’s anticompetitive pharmacy regime
The competition watchdog should also be analysing how Australia’s anticompetitive pharmacy policy settings – much like labour monopolies on construction sites and on the wharfs – are substantially lessening competition.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Consulting pile-on wound back
The argument for a more company-like corporate form and regulation of professional services partnerships raises two questions that will need thinking through.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Chanticleer’s half-century of crowing
How hardwired Chanticleer remains in the upper echelons of the corporate world is measured by Thursday’s sold out 50th anniversary celebration in Sydney.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Carbon wars won’t help reach Australia’s climate target
The warning from the boss of one of Australia’s largest energy companies underlines the irrationality of self-imposed obstacles to all possible net-zero paths.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Queensland budget a populist clown show
The budget further trashes the Sunshine State’s traditional reputation as a low debt, lower taxing, business-friendly jurisdiction as Labor tries to spend its way back into power.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Nine’s needed tough calls
After Peter Costello’s self-destruction, new chairman Catherine West’s challenge is to turn around Nine into a growth business.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
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
- Opinion
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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
