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The day offers a welcome counterpoint in an age of fragmenting identity politics in which it is becoming more difficult to find agreement about...
The sudden row between Australia and Elon Musk is a test of sovereign writ against the biggest companies – but also where government control of...
Ideally, the 2024 budget should be slightly contractionary or, at most, neutral to help the Reserve Bank deliver the difficult last mile of...
The Financial Review helped forge the political and intellectual opposition to the nation’s 20th-century industry protectionism, which was once a...
Murder in Bondi Junction and terrorism in western Sydney have come to a country already demoralised by a cost-of-living crisis. Time for politicians...
A generation of politicians who grew up with a post-Cold War peace dividend are now struggling to switch from welfare to warfare.
Does anyone think the public interest was served by the back and forth over the best metric of Woolworths’ profitability and threatening Brad...
Justice Lee’s factual pushback at some of the unthinking cultural warfare that has overwhelmed politics and media in recent times has performed a...
Some Arab nations recognise that Iran is the biggest threat to peace in the Middle East. That is a reality which many in the West are blind too.
The carnage at Bondi Junction Plaza may have lessons for mental health management. But it was also a violent exception that proves the rule of a...
At the least, the Treasurer should join with whoever can claim to be an economic rationalist in this government to yell stop, wrong way, go back.
Giving the ACCC bureaucrats more power might just add more red tape costs for little return. It would be more productive to focus on the obvious...
As China and other advanced economies suffer mutual disillusionment, Australia needs to figure out how it maintains its sweet spot in China’s...
Ironically, turning AUKUS into JAUKUS would move the pact closer to satisfying the national strategic interest test formulated by its chief Australian...
The review represents a welcome move to contain any potential regulatory overreaction while also playing along with Labor’s political diversion to...
Israel has to show that it is better than the terrorists of Hamas. That means being accountable for its own behaviour.
Incremental change is a waste of time. Ken Henry says someone has to grab this thing and get on with it.
The opposition leader should be challenging Labor’s bad ideas, not adding one of his own.
Sam Mostyn’s instinctive promotion of progressive cultural policies will now be cloaked in a vice regal role that should remain above politics and...
Supporters of Ukraine must act quickly, lest the 75th anniversary of the key Western alliance instead marks a collapse of will and capacity in...
Australia does not have a great record at industry policy. Creating a bucket of government money for solar panels in the midst of a global subsidy war...
Tax reform is the cornerstone of rebooting national economic performance because its benefits are so pervasive. Business leaders are rightly taking up...
Over-prescriptive and risk-averse rules on lending are not just a problem for bankers. They hobble the whole economy.
The underlying financial strength of the big four got them through a turbulent decade just gone. More competitiveness is needed to get them through...
Treasurer Jim Chalmers is now asking the right questions about Australia’s future, even if he needs to find better answers.
The foreign minister is repairing relations with China while unsentimentally hedging against its military might. Eruptions from Paul Keating and...
No other Australian foreign minister has had to deal with a former prime minister - and reforming Labor legend no less - publicly second-guessing the...
The governor’s failure to give firm guidance on interest rates in her press conference reflects genuine uncertainty about the end of the inflation...
The court cases involving Uber and Qantas raised different questions about legalised business and union monopolies.
The Greens are using farmers as allies of convenience to pursue their left-wing populist campaign against the supposed price and profit gouging of...
Credit to the government for not simply ruling out making better-off Australians with healthy superannuation balances contribute more towards the cost...
The GST formula was meant to take the politics out of the system. Now we should be asking if the incentives were wrong in the first place.
This week’s sharpest economic analysis came not from foreign left-leaning economists on tour in Australia, but from BlackRock global strategist Wei...
While this should not be misinterpreted as proof that AUKUS is dead in water, that the subs deal is once again caught up in how Washington “works”...
New Business Council of Australia president Geoff Culbert pushed the idea at The Australian Financial Review Business Summit to “break out of the...
The unambitious Intergenerational Report must not become the benchmark for this country’s growth prospects. Bold structural reform is needed.
There has been no major enduring, productivity-enhancing economic reform since the Howard-Costello GST package more than two decades ago.
There has been no major enduring, productivity-enhancing economic reform since the Howard-Costello GST package more than two decades ago.
The octogenarian US president went for full relaunch at the State of the Union address, but he has yet to make his strongest card work for him.
Four years on, the government-driven saviour economy in which people feel entitled without having to do much for it is the attitude that must be...
But the optics of forging stronger links with the nations of South-East Asia were undercut by the unprecedented and unedifying intervention by Paul...
Now Facebook’s owner has thrown the ball back into the government’s court and has to be “designated” in the interests of professional...
Australia has a role to play in promoting “ASEAN centrality” in an open and stable region, and an interest in increasing trade and investment as...
The Coalition should have used the Sunday morning after Dunkley to start talking about an alternative economic narrative that would have broad appeal.
Working from home to get through an emergency is not the same as the concerted drive for growth and productivity Australia desperately needs.
President Marcos’s speech is in keeping with the tightening network of Asian nations who are keen to keep the US engaged and are suspicious of...
A lot will be read into the implications of Saturday’s poll because it’s essentially a purely political horse race short on substantial policy...
Paul Keating’s 80th birthday interview raises the under-discussed issue of the impact of the $3.6 trillion union-influenced superannuation funds on...
While business is not entirely to blame, there is clearly room for innovative thinking about how corporates can tackle the cultural barriers to women...
The Universities Accord social equity aspiration depends on students being ready to study at a higher level after year 12.