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Brisbane should learn lessons of Australian Open’s success
It’s always tough for governments to justify spending money on sporting venues. Yet, long-term thinking and the best option for leaving a legacy should be factored into the plans for Brisbane’s Olympic stadium.
Editorial
A woke mining boss shows why Trump’s DEI crusade will fail
Davos showed how many companies are convinced diversity and environmental measures make financial sense.
Columnist
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.
Columnist
Australia-China trade will be caught in middle of Trump’s tariff war
Australia is now more dependent on a single market than it has ever been since the late 1940s when our biggest customer was the United Kingdom.
Columnist
Eighty years later, ‘never again’ falls short
Holocaust memorial day is more than an annual commemoration. It is an urgent reminder of what happens when the world turns its back on the quest to murder Jews.
Contributor
PM promises the voters his full attention, but are they listening?
The PM tacitly conceded the Indigenous voice to parliament referendum had been a major blunder.
Political editor
All of a sudden, Allan is running out of time in Victoria
New polling that reveals a record slump in support for Victorian Labor will have Prime Minister Anthony Albanese worried too.
BOSS Deputy editor
More than bluster to Trump’s pro-business agenda
Donald Trump’s second coming must focus the mind of the political class on progressing the tax, workplace and regulatory reform agenda required to sharpen Australia’s international competitiveness.
Editorial
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- Opinion
- Trump diplomacy
Australia must face down US tech bosses and Trump
Global tech giants will still be powerful when Trump is not. Policy settings made today by Anthony Albanese or Peter Dutton need to keep that future in mind.
- Paul Smith
- Opinion
- Cryptocurrencies
Trump meme coins are a disaster in waiting
Whatever one’s view of the value of cryptocurrencies, something about this moment feels like a story that won’t end well.
- Lionel Laurent
- Opinion
- Cryptocurrencies
Trump makes everyone a winner on bitcoin
The launch of $Trump is a clear signal that the president is serious about leaning into American exceptionalism and driving that innovation on cryptocurrencies.
- Sinclair Davidson
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
This is how the magnificent seven’s bubble could burst
AI will reshape markets and economies in the next five years, according to Bank of America. But today’s tech giants might not be the biggest winners.
- James Thomson
This Month
- Opinion
- Federal election
Trump’s difference is in the detail second time around
Anthony Albanese was not going there when asked about this. But be assured the pressures Donald Trump is unleashing will make the need to change inevitable.
- Laura Tingle
- Opinion
- Government debt
‘The numbers are breathtaking’: Qld’s interest bill worth 11 new hospitals
The states’ debt-servicing costs will probably continue to skyrocket as investors demand compensation for their fiscally reckless ways.
- Christopher Joye
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Why green aluminium pushes us towards Argentine Peronism
Both sides of politics want us to believe that redirecting prosperity to a preferred sector somehow represents a growth strategy.
- Alexander Sanchez
- Opinion
- Investing
Why Millennials are going all-in on US stocks and ETFs
Nearly 70 per cent of total trading volume on our platform this month to date was in American equities, which is double the same period last year.
- Demetria Chelepy
- Opinion
- Australia Day
Extend, don’t change the date of Australia Day
There is a way to recognise our Indigenous heritage, British foundations and immigrant history by marking them over two days – the 25th and 26th of January.
- Nick Dyrenfurth
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Top CEOs reveal 17 ways to make Australia great again
The executives were asked to think big picture about the risks and opportunities we’re not sufficiently considering. Here are their ideas for a better nation.
- James Thomson
- Opinion
- Canberra Observed
Three-year terms keep us stuck in short-term thinking
As campaigning starts earlier each election, politics becomes overtly tactical, the public service enters zombie mode and business watches on frustrated as nothing gets done.
- Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Liberal party must be a broad and inclusive church
All institutions need to pick the best people on their merits, yet half the population is significantly underrepresented in one of Australia’s major political parties.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Investors should forget DEI and ESG wars and follow the money
Donald Trump’s war on woke has quickly washed up on Australian shores. But investors and companies would be smart to block the noise, and stay rational.
- James Thomson
Woodside chooses timidity for the sake of short-term shareholder gains
Readers’ letters on companies withdrawing from clean energy projects, ASX diversity reporting, Donald Trump’s climate policy, and debate over gender choices.
- 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?
- Jennifer Hewett
- Opinion
- Trump's America
What if Australia had its own Trump?
A local Trump would do some truth-telling, including that it’s incomprehensible a place as big as Australia has close to the world’s most unaffordable housing.
- John Roskam
- Opinion
- Trump diplomacy
Dutton will wage ungentlemanly warfare on national security
Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison all ultimately failed to create their own winning ‘khaki campaign’. But it didn’t stop them from trying, and it won’t stop Dutton from trying either.
- Lidija Ivanovski
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Six decades on, Solomon Lew sets Myer a $5b goal
The retail veteran is banking on big things from a department store icon that has been part of his life for 61 years.
- James Thomson
- Opinion
- Trump's White House
Trump’s tax plans will send Aussie businesses to America
The promise of a US economic boom driven by lower taxes and deregulation is already starting to turn the heads of Australia’s business titans and entrepreneurs.
- Shaun Cartoon
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
A fund did the unthinkable and cut its CBA stake. Time to follow suit?
Australian Foundation Investment Company says the “extreme” valuation of the bank left it little choice but to take some profit. But our super giants aren’t stepping back.
- James Thomson
- Opinion
- Shares
ASX Limited fiddles with DEI while market shrinks
Something is rotten at the bourse’s headquarters with senior leadership in distraction and denial.
- Dimitri Burshtein and Peter Swan