This Month
- Opinion
- Energy
How Trump’s war on green energy affects Australia
Donald Trump’s plans for an energy revolution will blow strong political winds across Australia’s energy market.
- Opinion
- Diversity
Trump fires up war on woke
Donald Trump is waging war on DEI policies. Does this mean the defeat of woke – or just another front in the fight?
- Opinion
- Trump's America
Donald Trump and the art of the diplomatic deal
Donald Trump has always loved a deal. Now he wants to force governments to gamble at his own White House table.
- Opinion
- Trump's America
Trump’s revolution takes shape and extraordinary becomes the norm
The formal traditions of an American presidential inauguration couldn’t obscure the extent of the Trump revolution immediately under way.
- Opinion
- Donald Trump
Trump’s triumphant return shows just how much the ground has shifted
The president-elect says his administration won’t waste a minute in delivering on its promises. The Trump revolution is under way.
December 2024
- Opinion
- Global economy
Inflation risk crashes into political risk
Market tantrums and the fall in the Australian dollar in response to the US Fed show that next year is likely to be even more volatile.
- Opinion
- Federal budget
Budget update sounds a clear warning
Jim Chalmers is good at relaxed rhetoric about the economy. The mid-year figures are much tougher to explain.
- Updated
- Opinion
- Mining
Critical minerals manufacturing dream tempered by harsh reality
Falling prices mean Australia’s ambitions to develop the industry and downstream processing are on pause. Is this a waiting game, or is it all over?
- Opinion
- Nuclear energy
Nuclear play snares energy industry in political pincers
Peter Dutton is betting big on nuclear power. Labor labels this economic insanity. And the public won’t believe either party’s estimates of what will be cheaper.
November 2024
Energy efforts run into reality
The risk of power blackouts is real and rising this summer – along with the costs of frantically trying to avoid that happening,
- Opinion
- Inflation
Why interest rates won’t come down
Forget the headline number. The latest inflation figures are not good news for a government trying to sell its economic credentials.
- Opinion
- Trade wars
Trump’s tariff war won’t spare America’s allies
Donald Trump is promising 25 per cent tariffs on supposedly close allies like Canada and Mexico as well as China. Where does that leave Australia?
- Opinion
- Anthony Albanese
Labor struggles down the last stretch
The Albanese government’s numbers don’t add up for voters as the election looms.
- Opinion
- Big four
Chalmers sells intervention as economic salve
The US may have a different culture, but its politics still provide a recent lesson in the electoral risks of rural voters feeling ignored by governments or left out of services.
- Opinion
- Foreign relations
Trump picks put Australia in the crossfire with China
The frenzy around a reinvigorated Republican administration can only make the voter ride much bumpier for everyone, Anthony Albanese included.
- Opinion
- International students
Foreign students row is political kryptonite
The government accuses Peter Dutton of hypocrisy for rejecting its foreign student caps, but the Opposition Leader is not about to do Labor any favours this close to an election.
- Exclusive
- Financial planners
PM’s financial advice reforms at risk of collapse
The government’s efforts to get a deal on giving more Australians access to good financial advice without paying thousands of dollars have stalled after an impasse on funding.
- Updated
- Opinion
- Lithium
Liontown survived the lithium carnage, but can it handle Donald Trump?
After taking a wild ride in lithium over the past year, Liontown Resources thinks it can also adapt to whatever the Trump administration produces.
- Opinion
- Federal election
Musk rings alarm bells for business of government
Why the appointment of the world’s richest man to a cost-cutting role in the Trumpiverse challenges Labor’s approach to government in Australia.
- Opinion
- Trump's White House
Trump’s foreign policy agenda a high-stakes guessing game
Donald Trump’s presidency is about to show up the contradictions in Australia’s defence spending and its domestic economy.