• Opinion
• Letters to the Editor

Government out of tune on climate

Letters on airports, the ATO, bushfires, climate change and the Berlin Wall.

• Nov 14, 2019

• Opinion
• Opinion

Brexit choice between economic or political hell

What can foreign industry leaders make of a government prepared to take its own economy to the edge of a cliff to appease zealots in its own party?

• Updated Mar 14, 2019

• Business Summit

Niall Ferguson: This is what happens if China wins the new cold war

History is marked by disruptive clashes and the battle between the US and China for high-tech domination could have some very nasty consequences, warns Hoover Institute and Harvard historian Niall Ferguson

• Updated Mar 8, 2019

• World politics

Historian Robert Tombs says Brexit means Britain's elite is revolting

Eminent historian Robert Tombs thinks the British were right to vote for Brexit. It's only a trainwreck because the Establishment won't accept it, he tells Lunch with the AFR.

• Updated May 31, 2018

Senator Dean Smith: The godfather of same-sex marriage

Senator Dean Smith is the unlikely architect of our same-sex marriage laws. It should make us expect more from our politicians, he says over lunch with the AFR.

• Updated Dec 19, 2017

New York Times columnist Bret Stephens on talking truth in age of Trump

Conservative pundit Bret Stephens explains, over lunch with the AFR, why our inability to disagree in the age of Trump is dangerous.

• Updated Sep 22, 2017

In a post-Brexit world, how does Britain plan to trade?

What can two countries bound together since the 1700s find to sell and invest with each other that they don't already? Plenty says a British trade minister

• Updated Dec 8, 2016

P.J. O'Rourke: an election scenario that is beyond satire

Legendary satirist P.J. O'Rourke blames the liberals who built an oversized and invasive US state for the low-rent dictator who could take it over.

• Updated Aug 4, 2016

• Shipping

South China Sea: China's vital link to the global economy

Since the Cultural Revolution China's insatiable demand for commodities has stretched it's sea-going approaches to their limits.

• Updated Jul 15, 2016

• Interest rates

Niall Ferguson finds the future in the past

One of the world's most influential academics says that the best reason to study where history has been is to find out where it's going.

• Updated May 27, 2016

• Interest rates

Niall Ferguson says GFC stagnation is over and inflation will rise

Niall Ferguson says economic historians will look back at the first quarter of 2016 as the turning point; "the end of the hangover induced by the GFC".

• Updated May 19, 2016

• Opinion
• Interest rates

FT's Martin Wolf says global elite have not learned from GFC

Martin Wolf is staggered by how little we have wanted to learn from the catastrophe of the global financial crisis.

• Updated Jul 2, 2015

• Art

David Kilcullen: how to beat the Islamic extremists

This high flying, plain spoken Australian strategist now thinks the unthinkable about the threat to the West

• Updated Dec 13, 2014

• Art

AFR Lunch with Roger Scruton: tradition, truth and beauty

Philosopher Roger Scruton’s conservative convictions have caused him trouble, but he argues it’s all about morality and civility.

• Updated May 24, 2014

• Gas

BP ‘in LNG contract linked to US gas price’

Oil giant BP will reportedly sell liquefied natural gas to Japan in a contract based for the first time on United States domestic gas prices, rather than the usual link to the much higher price of crude oil.

• Updated Dec 13, 2012