This Month
Albanese cruises as budget discipline barely rates with voters
“Cuts” is a dirty word during an election campaign. But its increasing resonance underscores a scant regard for the need to address debt and deficit.
Hockey remains Australia’s Trump-whisperer – only now, he’s charging
Business is going well for advisers with links to a White House where Donald Trump is intent on liberating America from the global trading system and its allies.
Yellen and Hockey ride out Trump tariffs at Cafe Sydney
The former US treasury secretary was spotted lunching in Sydney as tariff news roiled global markets.
March
CoStar CEO Andy Florance jets in seeking deal on Domain
The CoStar chief executive landed in Sydney on his Bombardier Global 6000 on Saturday night. One of his first stops? Joe Hockey’s annual Bondi Partners party.
February
The tech entrepreneur who plans to give REA Group the fight of its life
If anyone knows how to shake up the fortunes of online real estate stalwart Domain, it is Andy Florance, the founder and chief executive of US giant CoStar.
This US senator stole Joe Hockey’s boots. Now they’ve joined forces
Joe Manchin says Australia will always be a valued ally even if it does not feel that way in the frenzied early days of Donald Trump.
January
Trump 2.0 has business racing to ditch diversity and climate goals
Corporates face a new reality – one where they stand to benefit immensely, as long as they don’t cross the White House. Australian companies are taking notice.
September 2024
A Trump win would tank the US dollar: Hockey
America represents the world’s greatest sovereign risk for investors and overseas economies including Australia, the former ambassador and treasurer has warned.
August 2024
Kevin Rudd drops hints on his future
The former prime minister delivered a riff on what comes next in the Rudd life story.
April 2024
Budget spending cuts must ‘take heat off’ interest rates
To limit the RBA’s interest rate rises, tens of billions of dollars in federal and state government expenditure must be unwound, economists say.
Kevin Rudd and CNN put on a US tennis clinic
The former prime minister’s shaking mud off his polo and getting on with tennis diplomacy.
Joe Hockey must be minting money
The former treasurer’s shop has added ex-defence minister Marise Payne and a Japanese diplomat to its roster.
We should be glad banks are speaking up
Australia’s big banks are at the coalface of the economy. Governments should be listening when they highlight the need for change.
March 2024
‘He will not be there long’: Trump warns Rudd on Washington posting
Donald Trump delivered the stern ultimatum to the former Australian prime minister in an interview with former British politician Nigel Farage.
Mark McGowan doing gas burnouts for Chris Ellison
Despite the former premier citing burnout for quitting politics, McGowan’s new jobs seem to all put him at the centre of the action.
February 2024
Spy boss defies pressure to name ex-MP who betrayed Australia
Mike Burgess has defied a political firestorm pressuring him to name the former politician who he revealed was recruited by a foreign spy agency and betrayed Australia.
Trump rattles US alliance cages again
Canberra should reach out to Donald Trump not with gold-plated AUKUS submarine models but by restating why Australia’s defence matters to American security.
January 2024
Rudd, Hockey on hand to turn NRL’s Las Vegas play into reality
The NRL has promised to resolve issues with visas for players that have previously been arrested and a major injection of funds for offshore training.
December 2023
How Chalmers’ fiscal goals lost all ambition
It is striking how modest fiscal strategy ambitions have become. If we look back over 10 years, there are valuable lessons.
November 2023
Australia’s only naval shipbuilder reaches a fork in the road
There are plenty of big questions for Austal, and defence policy, as the likelihood of a private equity takeover increases and priorities shift to the US.