December 2024
Liberals hold Christmas party in Allegra Spender’s seat
The Liberals were at the last election defeated in their ancestral homelands. But they’re still there, fundraising and planning a resurgence.
November 2024
Dealmaker David Di Pilla’s other REIT is underwater
The capital markets darling’s DigiCo REIT will be the biggest IPO in years. His other REIT is floundering.
July 2024
Inside the push to break up ASIC
ASIC chairman Joe Longo says the corporate cop is finally turning a corner, but there are plenty of critics who think the only answer for ASIC is ‘radical change’.
June 2024
Nuclear should fire Coalition’s Fightback!
Finding the same combination of politics and principle on other policies might be the start of a strategy to win, not necessarily the next election – but the one after that.
February 2024
Garnaut-Sims power plan is big on ambition, short on logic
The $100 billion carbon tax proposal would penalise Australians, deter greener energy switches in Asia, and would be impossible to implement.
August 2023
How big business busted a lobbying bureaucracy
The founding CEO of the Business Council of Australia explains how the lobby group was created 40 years ago, and its influence on public policy.
May 2023
Why your carbon-free Doritos should be made with swamp gas
Some of the nation’s biggest emitters want governments to certify the carbon-neutral qualities of gas captured from rotting organic waste and rubbish.
January 2023
Ad firms, pollsters plot how to sway voters in Voice referendum
The ‘yes’ and ‘no’ camps are slicing voter demographics to find out how to sell the Voice to the public.
Reform is not just efficient, it’s the moral thing to do
Reform can only be sold to voters as the right and fair thing to do, not because it is coldly cost-effective.
April 2022
Jason Falinski adjusts family history
In a new campaign video, the Mackellar MP blames Labor’s recession for the collapse of his father’s computer business. Which, frankly, is a bit rough.
November 2021
What Malcolm Turnbull needs to do to be a gold standard former PM
Just as Hawke dropped the booze, Turnbull as PM parked his inability to suffer the many fools in politics. He needs to rediscover the charm if he wants to make contributions.
May 2021
Chinese military says Australia’s Taiwan comments ‘provocative’
China’s Defence Ministry has accused Australia of talking up the prospect of war over Taiwan.
April 2021
John Hewson leads push for halal home loans
Home ownership by Muslim Australians is half that of the rest of the country. A new loan offering could provide an Islamic way to even that balance.
Tax experts call on Commonwealth to back NSW stamp duty reform
The federal government should offer financial incentives to state and territory treasurers to help scrap the property sales tax, say experts.
January 2021
Australia on track to bust carbon ‘budget’ by 2038: report
By 2038, Australia is on track bust its entire carbon emissions budget under the ‘best case’ temperature scenarios in the Paris climate accord.
Super is the Liberals' new cut-through
The Coalition used franking credits in 2019 to convince voters Labor was after their money. Now they have another plan.
November 2020
Why the Liberals need a better Labor than the one they've got
The government needs someone to challenge them on policy. That is not going to be Anthony Albanese.
September 2020
Budget to front end big infrastructure spend
The states are set to receive billions extra in infrastructure funding on the proviso they use it or lose it.
June 2020
'Burning platform' is here for GST reform: Ken Henry
Twenty years after introducing the GST, John Howard says the secret to successfully prosecuting tax reform is convincing voters it is good for the economy and fair to Australians.
May 2019
Can Labor win the next election? It's harder but history says yes
Despite the shock defeat, Bill Shorten has left the opposition in better shape than John Hewson and Mark Latham did following the 1993 and 2004 elections.