Yesterday
- Opinion
- The AFR View
The pluses and minuses of Elliott’s ANZ legacy
How the outgoing CEO’s tenure is regarded will hinge on the long-term outcomes of his two signature projects.
This Month
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Australia must be vigilant about stirring up populism
The challenge of cutting the size of government is made harder by public sector elites receiving outsized remuneration.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Posturing on Israel pandering to ugly racism
Labor continues to walk both sides of the street on the Gaza war, Palestinian statehood, and Israel’s right to self-defence. The net result of the juggling act has been to undermine attempts to condemn antisemitism unequivocally.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
The treasurer must ask what he can do for business
Jim Chalmers is asking business to dig Australia’s economy out of the hole. But he also needs to say what he is going to do to help businesses invest and lift the nation’s embarrassingly poor productivity.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Business Person awards celebrate founder success
AirTrunk and Chemist Warehouse’s founder stories underline the importance of innovative and risk-taking entrepreneurship, perceptiveness, and persistence to build wealth- and job-creating enterprises.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Qantas’ misdeeds shouldn’t scuttle Virgin-Qatar deal
The TWU stoush with Bain Capital over the next Virgin boss highlights corporate Australia’s wider reputational issues that have fuelled the populist backlash against business.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Upholding sovereignty against big tech is not so easy
We credit the Albanese government for continuing to seek to make big tech play by the same rules as other companies. However, the devil is always in the detail.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
RBA shake-up must maintain spirit of central bank independence
The new era in Australian central banking should encourage better monetary policy decision-making. But that hinges on whom the treasurer picks to sit on the new interest rate board.
November
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Report card on 47th parliament: Could do better
Two retiring politicians offered some pointed advice for their colleagues in parliament’s last session for the year.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Allan and Pallas in denial about Victoria’s state of decline
Victoria’s bigger spending and bigger debt trajectory is not sustainable, and no amount of spin from the leaders to blame for making such a mess of public finances can cover that up.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Target on track. But the truth about transition costs is not out there
Both sides of politics promising cheaper power prices is just setting up another broken election pledge.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Budget slide shows Chalmers’ fiscal luck has run out
If the government calls an early election before the budget is scheduled for March 25 next year, it would underscore how big a political problem – of its own making – economic management now is for Labor.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Pivotal election for higher education calls for bigger discussion
Beyond the next election horizon that is driving the student caps issue, the challenges universities now face deserve a serious policy conversation.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Politicised overreach on Israel undermines ICC’s standing
There may be legitimate legal case to be heard. But moral questions around the portrayal of Israel as a pariah state also risks undermining the two-state solution required for a lasting peace.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
West must not flinch in helping Ukraine now
There is something else at stake as Ukraine fights on: the self-respect of the democratic nations that have backed them this far.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Chalmers taints the Future Fund with political intentions
By making the high-profile and unprecedented decision to direct the sovereign wealth fund the treasurer has changed the climate of expectations of what he would like the fund’s board to do.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Did gender diversity and merit collide at Rio Tinto?
The challenge for companies is to find a way to promote pluralism while treating all employees equally and avoiding inflaming a politicised culture war.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
China should practise what it preaches on free trade
The best way Beijing can persuade the US it is playing fair is to open up its domestic market so America can share in its success.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Branchless banks should not have to prop up bricks-and-mortar rivals
Before the government imposes a new levy to keep regional branches open and head off a Coalition attack, the competition and innovation effects must be weighed.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Time running out as incumbents’ curse strikes Labor
According to today’s poll, 42 per cent of voters think our economy will be weaker with Trump restored to the White House. It’s a grim portent for Labor.
