This Month
Trump’s ‘one big beautiful bill’ is a danger to Australia
The budget is yet another tool to beat trade partners into submission. It threatens our companies, superannuation industry and sovereignty.
Jim Chalmers is wrong. The economy is not turning a corner
Labor’s super tax does little to fundamentally improve a badly unbalanced tax system that only grows more unfair, unwieldy and unproductive.
Workers’ compensation scheme needs to be reformed
With the burgeoning cost of psychological injury claims, it’s reasonable to question if the scheme’s coverage of injury complaints is too broad.
How can Australia navigate the AI-driven fourth industrial revolution
History shows that great technological revolutions have a pattern: rapid disruption, job displacement, and eventually, adaptation.
Government must step up its game on AI challenges
There is a growing sense that things are starting to get complicated as a growing number of companies start embracing AI as a driver of workforce productivity.
Can Labor stop Trump’s tariff assault on Australia?
The PM faces the daunting task of advocating for Australia’s national economic interests while ensuring the nation doesn’t end up dancing to Trump’s tune.
May
Brookfield has made private equity’s life harder after Healthscope
The failure of the country’s second-largest private hospital operator will have implications for private investment in social infrastructure for years to come.
Director Awards underline importance of greater boardroom diversity
Homogeneity undermines accountability, stifles directors’ willingness to ask management the hard questions, and causes boards to succumb to mere conformity.
North West Shelf green light signals warming to gas
It’s welcome acknowledgment gas will play a key role in the important net zero energy transformation that is proving longer, harder and more costly than first thought.
Brookfield’s comeuppance no cause for health policy complacency
The reality is that both taxpayers funding Medicare services and users of private healthcare will ultimately need to pay for the rising cost of the system.
Aussie big tech unionisation a sign of AI times
The tech sector is confronting its Frankenstein moment: the very workers who brought AI to life are now trying to survive it before it turns on them.
Trump’s war on Harvard could cripple Australian research
The blunt-force targeting of foreign students is not only reckless but erodes the pillars of intellectual diversity that Trump claims to be defending.
Labor shouldn’t crash through on super taxes like the Voice
The government’s failure to heed advice from many parts of the community that the super tax policy is flawed ominously echoes the defeat of the referendum.
Pollies should kick their poker machine addiction
State and territory goverments are blinded by the lustre of gambling revenue to the social ills pokies cause.
Can Labor help the Pilbara go green?
Labor now has a rare, politically unencumbered opportunity to secure the nation’s energy supply, industrial competitiveness and climate transition.
Nats must reunite with Libs sooner rather than later
The prospect of prosecuting their agenda is made more likely if the Nationals end their self-imposed exile and recombine with the Liberal Party.
Trumpian uncertainty upends Australia’s inflation challenge
Taming inflation now looks like a first-term problem for Labor. The second-term challenge facing the government is the lack of a substantial growth agenda.
Will Victorian budget avert a full-blown debt crisis?
Jacinta Allan’s government has previously shown an inclination to tax its way out of trouble rather than tackle structural spending problems.
How to explain Albanese’s papal pilgrimage
There is a broader element to the sudden embrace of his Catholic heritage by a non-mass-attending prime minister who chose not to be sworn in with his hand on the Bible.
Labor’s super tax grab should worry every Australian
It’s a great shame that the Coalition failed to mount a serious challenge to Labor’s super tax proposal during the election campaign.