This Month
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.
- Mark Wembridge
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.
- Tom McIlroy
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.
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- Mark Di Stefano
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.
- John Kehoe
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.
- Mark Di Stefano
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.
- Mark Di Stefano
- Opinion
- Big four
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.
- Nick Hossack
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.
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- Matthew Cranston
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.
- Mark Di Stefano
February 2024
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- National security
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.
- Andrew Tillett
- Opinion
- US election
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.
- James Curran
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.
- Zoe Samios
December 2023
- Opinion
- Australian economy
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.
- Robert Carling
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.
- Matthew Cranston
October 2023
Hockey reveals what it was really like to play golf with Trump
Former federal treasurer and ex-US ambassador Joe Hockey reflects on Donald Trump, the state of United States politics and the future of Australian businesses.
- Kylar Loussikian
Trump ‘revealed nuclear submarine secrets’ to Anthony Pratt
Soon after leaving office, the former president shared information with the billionaire member of Mar-a-Lago, according to people familiar with the matter.
- Alan Feuer, Ben Protess, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
‘Exhausted’ McGowan has four jobs, including one with Joe Hockey
The former WA premier quit politics five months ago citing exhaustion.
- Tom Rabe and Mark Di Stefano
August 2023
Super savings should be used to invest in defence sector: Chalmers
Last year, the treasurer said there was a role for super in supporting affordable housing and clean energy. Now, he wants to expand that to include defence.
- Lucy Dean
July 2023
How a spreadsheet error spawned the $4.7b robo-debt monster
An analysis created by junior officials looked at just 418 welfare cases and contained a fundamental error. Their bosses seized on it anyway.
- Tom Burton
June 2023
- Exclusive
- Baby formula
Was Bubs in the dark about Citi’s mandate? Emails indicate no
The company alleges its ex-chief executive and chairman kept details of the appointment from the rest of the board as part of a dispute in the Federal Court.
- Carrie LaFrenz