November
Vale Tom Hughes: Distinguished last cab off the rank
A giant of Australian law, reforming attorney-general and a powerful behind-the-scenes figure, Tom Hughes leaves behind a remarkable legacy.
- Andrew Clark
August
Leaders remember Rod Carnegie, the man who shaped Australia
Leaders from mining, business, politics and science gathered at St John’s Anglican Church in Toorak for the memorial service for business giant Sir Rod Carnegie.
- Andrew Clark
October 2023
Vale Bill Hayden, a complex high achiever who helped shape Australia
Moody and often difficult, Bill Hayden played a major role ushering in reforms including Medicare, opening up the economy, and Australia’s engagement with Asia.
- Andrew Clark
June 2023
Malcolm Turnbull gets personal
The former prime minister lashed the intelligence of Lachlan Murdoch at a Crikey event on Tuesday night.
- Mark Di Stefano
May 2023
Liberal Party heavyweights gather to farewell Tony Staley
Tony Staley was a kingmaker in conservative Australian politics and a cabinet worth of Liberal Party heavyweights joined his friends and family for his funeral.
- Gus McCubbing
- Opinion
- Royal family
Voice vote will drive Australia’s next move on republic
Saturday’s coronation may be the prelude for a new republican push in Australia. But the real momentum will come from the success or otherwise of the First Nations referendum.
- Updated
- Andrew Clark
- Opinion
- Royal family
Post-imperial nation that just can’t make the final cut
Charles Windsor is not popular in all his realms. But even the Albanese government is curiously reluctant to press a more self-confident identity.
- James Curran
November 2022
Tony Whitlam: Gough was ‘pissed off’ by Dismissal slur
Gough Whitlam’s son opens up for the first time about his father’s reaction to being dismissed, and Labor’s 1972 election victory.
- Andrew Clark
A time for change: Gough Whitlam’s election win, 50 years on
There was a revolutionary flavour to the Whitlam era, with its radical departure from the past and its abrupt demise.
- Andrew Clark
August 2022
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Labor’s job summit lacks genuine productivity purpose
Thursday’s summit needs to start reframing the entire workplace narrative for the modern world, not just fiddle with a broken system from a century ago.
- The AFR View
Kerr-Fraser conflict a precedent for governor-general’s intervention
Moves by the governor-general to knock back federal government appointments in the 1970s provide a precedent for the Morrison ministries case.
- Tom McIlroy
Veteran political journalist David Barnett dies, aged 90
The journalist spearheaded the first official Canberra bureau of AAP more than 50 years ago and served as press secretary to Malcolm Fraser for seven years.
- Kaaren Morrissey
July 2022
These diplomats picked Beijing’s world domination plan 40 years ago
A secret briefing paper from 1980 forecast that China would break from the West soon after growing its economy and technological base.
- Andrew Tillett
April 2022
- Opinion
- Federal election
This election could be one of the most important in Australian history
Incompetence, small minds and a democracy under threat make the coming poll among the most consequential ever.
- Anne Summers
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Letters: A political race to the bottom
Federal election, diminishing political trust, Coalition selection committee, Labor economic policies, SA ICAC reform, Malcolm Turnbull, Solomons reaction.
PMs may no longer need posh private schools
The coming election pits a publicly educated leader against a privately educated one. But they aren’t in the parties you might expect.
- Andrew Hobbs
February 2022
- Opinion
- Tax reform
Index personal tax brackets to CPI to starve the spending beast
Governments that could no longer rely on bracket creep would have to make better decisions on how to raise and spend revenue.
- Steven Hamilton
December 2021
Australia on the cusp of an inheritance tsunami
Baby Boomers are expected to pass on an estimated $224 billion each year in bequests by 2050, leading some economists to call for an inheritance tax.
- Michael Read
November 2021
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Australia’s wasted decade: lessons from the 1970s
What we learned from the decade in which the ‘dream economy’ of the 1960s squandered its luck helped transform Australia over the following 30 years.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Platinum Year
Exposing the tariff bludgers
As an editor of The Australian Financial Review and as an industry commissioner, Peter Robinson was a scourge of rent-seeking and cosy industrial arrangements.
- Alex Millmow