Yesterday
- Opinion
- Opinion
CFMEU break-up overdue
The real source of John Setka and other union bosses’ political power remains the institutional privileges unions are granted by Australia’s archaic industrial relations framework.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Can big burritos save public markets?
We won’t know for many years whether Guzman y Gomez investors have overestimated Australians’ appetite for Mexican-themed restaurants.
- The AFR View
This Month
- Opinion
- Opinion
End the nuclear ban. Don’t stop renewables
There is a case for considering zero emissions nuclear power but as part of a technology-neutral energy approach to generating reliable baseload power and firmed wind and solar generation.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Mookhey’s NSW budget misinformation
The truth is NSW doesn’t have a revenue black hole. It has a problem with limiting the size of government.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
RBA holds, but has it done enough?
Even with this tightening bias, the longer inflation remains above target, the more the Reserve Bank’s credibility is challenged.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Albanese ‘renews and revitalises’ ties with a very different China
It remains in Australia’s national interest to deepen both economic and diplomatic ties with our major trade partner, and continue to welcome China’s rise behind a rules-based order.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
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
- 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
- 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
