October
Gina Rinehart buys Peter Dutton’s table for Perth party
The list of things the opposition leader has to be thankful for Rinehart keeps getting longer.
- Mark Di Stefano
Bennelong restaurant preps for Jordan Peterson and ex-prime ministers
Dining with the popular online conservative sends a signal about the current state of Liberal party ideas.
- Mark Di Stefano
- Opinion
- The AFR View
A future republic has to be for every Australian
A republic cannot just be about severing ties with Britain. It has to be about unifying Australia too.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Political leadership
Anthony Albanese has yet to grow into the prime minister’s job
The prime minister is a political operator rather than a visionary. His inability to persuade and sustain arguments is beginning to show.
- James Curran
- Analysis
- Middle East tensions
Beware the unintended consequences of Middle East escalation
As tensions between Washington and Tel Aviv flare again, the broader geopolitical consequences of the crisis remain difficult to discern.
- James Curran
Albanese has failed on antisemitism: Howard
Two former Liberal prime ministers and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton have accused the Albanese government of allowing antisemitism to fester.
- Phillip Coorey
September
‘The kingmaker seat’: The former Uber exec tasked with taking on the teals
Returning to Australia after almost a decade as an executive with Uber in Asia, Liberal candidate for Curtin Tom White says the ride-share giant helped shape his free market approach to politics.
- Tom Rabe
Philip Lowe is Barrenjoey’s new inside man
The former RBA governor has joined the board of the bank he once lashed out at, putting them in a penalty box.
- Mark Di Stefano
- Opinion
- Federal election
The National Party must help to fix up the farm that is Australia
Labor is only adding to sense of regression and decline in Australia. The Nationals can’t restore the country if they succumb to populism themselves.
- John Anderson
- Opinion
- Liberal Party
Liberals desperately need to end the Pesutto-Deeming drama
A climb down by both sides in this libel case would better for the Victorian Liberals than a damning Federal Court judgment.
- Terry Barnes
ScoMo’s new private office may need new private toilet
The former prime minister is lining up his office in Sydney’s CBD.
- Mark Di Stefano
- Opinion
- Political lobbying
How business and economists can become relevant again
A central problem is that good economic policies have not been well communicated and have often been debated in an echo chamber of elites.
- John Kehoe
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Rate decisions have to follow the data, not the dogma
Leading economic indicators have to be our guide, and they are all pointing towards an avoidable recession.
- Craig Emerson
August
More exclusive than any restaurant: how top deal makers dine
Investment banks and law firms have fostered a thriving in-house dining scene where they can break bread away from prying eyes.
- Aaron Weinman
‘You don’t embarrass the New Yorker in Trump’ says military adviser
Chris Miller, a former acting secretary of defence and Project 2025 contributor, says the AUKUS military alliance will be fine if Donald Trump wins the election, but Vladimir Putin could be in a jam.
- Kevin Chinnery
- Exclusive
- Defence
Prominent think tank fears the loss of its ‘superpower’
The rarefied world of public intellectuals and scholars is braced for a bombshell following a government review into think tank funding.
- Emma Connors
July
Aussies in Lebanon told: ‘get out while you can’
The government has plans to extract as many as 15,000 citizens from Lebanon using ferries if need be, but is urging them to leave now as there can be no guarantees.
- Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- Building Bad
Only a full judicial inquiry can lift the lid on the CFMEU
The scandals at the construction union leave a host of unanswered questions that will shape the future of industrial relations in Australia.
- Graeme Watson
June
- Analysis
- Political leadership
Peter Dutton is going right. Conservatives love it
But party moderates fear their leader’s tough policies on climate change and immigration could cost inner-city seats.
- Aaron Patrick
May
- Opinion
- Immigration
Giles scandal shows we disdain bureaucracies until we need services
Slashing the capabilities of government departments means that in the real world, dodgy characters escape scrutiny and genuine needs go unanswered.
- Laura Tingle