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Yesterday

David Rowe’s comment on Britain’s general election result.

Keir Starmer can drive Britain to reform-led growth

Britain’s new PM must lock in growth quickly if he is to secure Labour’s huge win. With a planning system from hell and a 17,000-page tax code, there is plenty of scope for reform.

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This Month

David Rowe

Sectarian divide threatens idea of Australia that benefits migrants

Battling out toxic foreign feuds here, and pushing votes on issues far beyond the reach of Australian governments is both pointless and divisive.

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David Rowe.

Dutton’s populist break up big stick betrays Liberal principles

Cheap anti-business sentiment is fuel for the left and right-wing populists causing havoc in Europe and the US. No one should be rushing to bring it here.

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It’s no surprise that a non-market-facing government bureaucracy has failed to turbo-charge competition.

Open banking offers a salutary tale

The lesson is that governments trying to regulate their way to a greater bank competition can have anti-competitive effects.

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Figuring out where to extract value from the energy transition isn’t getting any easier for investors.

Power price inflation risk for RBA and Labor

Australia’s green energy superpower hope is cheap and clean power. The near-term reality is higher than expected electricity prices to the end of the decade.

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James Curran’s AUKUS series is timely.

On AUKUS, Australia must catch up, not start again – yet again

Australia’s political, diplomatic and defence chiefs need to work with AUKUS counterparts in America and Britain to find a way through the gridlock.

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Labor’s identity politics tensions exposed

Senator Fatima Payman is also now part of the Greens’ political weaponisation of the Gaza war to try to win Muslim votes in Labor-held seats.

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June

The Suncorp deal only adds about 2.5 per cent to its market share in home loans and will keep ANZ the smallest of the big four.

Chalmers’ ANZ-Suncorp merger approval is ironic for bank competition

The whole drawn-out process could end up discouraging market dynamism by offering no way out to the smaller banks lacking the economies of scale to compete effectively.

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Three elections, and it’s the same economic incoherence

Elections under way in the US, Britain and France are being fought on what voters want to hear, rather than on what adds up.

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RBA governor Michele Bullock isn’t getting the news she wants on inflation.

Union pay push isn’t helping Labor’s inflation fight

It is not necessary to have a 1970s-style wage-price spiral to cause the government grief. It’s enough for the RBA to say that wage increases are above the level that miserable productivity growth can sustain.

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When he’s challenged over the lack of a fair dinkum plan to fix Australia’s broken taxation system, Treasurer Jim Chalmer’s response is that Labor’s “modest but meaningful” tax changes are doing the job .

Not so super tax reform

The controversy over taxing unrealised superannuation gains leaves Labor’s “modest” tax agenda looking like a piecemeal approach to fixing Australia’s broken tax system.

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RBA governor Michele Bullock isn’t getting the news she wants on inflation.

RBA should lift rates if that’s what it takes

The hotter-than-expected monthly inflation reading suggests the Reserve Bank has still not done enough to tame Australia’s sticky and above-target inflation.

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Ben Thompson of Employment Hero says 1 per cent of super should be exempt from the performance test so that it can back riskier start-ups.

No easy super money for next-gen risk-takers

A start-up golden age is coming because without plentiful money to hide the risks, entrepreneurs will be forced to focus on what really works for customers and investors.

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Freed: Julian Assange.

Citizen Assange’s hero claim is forever tainted

WikiLeaks mainly benefited Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Russian intelligence. That leaves Julian Assange’s claim to be a hero of press freedom forever tainted.

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Former Japanese ambassador to Australia Shingo Yamagami.

Japan’s LNG diplomacy is in Australia’s national interest

Any move to curb LNG exports that undermine Australia’s reputation would not just threaten new gas projects but damage Australia’s green superpower hopes.

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Andrew Mackenzie’s perspective on the global carbon challenge revealed in an exclusive interview with The Australian Financial Review’s Tech Zero podcast underlines the challenges in the pathway to the net zero future.

Mackenzie’s climate change

It shouldn’t surprise to hear the head of a global oil company talking his own book. But it’s no use pretending that the decarbonisation transition is more difficult and more costly than many imagined.

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All the recommendations in Craig Emerson’s review have been accepted by Treasury.

Supermarket crackdown avoids break-up overreach

Yet what remains unexplained is how shoring up the bargaining power of incumbent suppliers will actually lower prices for families at the checkout or will have the unintended regulatory consequences of meaning higher prices.

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Peter Dutton is proposing seven nuclear plants in Coalition electorates.

Nuclear election poses energy transition questions for both sides

The Coalition’s nuclear option deserves a proper debate, not the puerile meme scare campaign that Labor is running.

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ROWE

CFMEU break-up overdue

The real source of John Setka and other union bosses’ political power remains the institutional privileges unions are granted by Australia’s archaic industrial relations framework.

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Feeding frenzy: Guzman y Gomez co-founder and CEO Steven Marks, and TDM Growth Partners founder Tom Cowan.

Can big burritos save public markets?

We won’t know for many years whether Guzman y Gomez investors have overestimated Australians’ appetite for Mexican-themed restaurants.

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