Yesterday
Chalmers’ productivity roundtable a chance for overdue tax reform
The test for the treasurer will be to lead the nation to a genuine tax reform that makes people more prosperous, not a simple tax grab to plug the budget deficit.
This Month
Managing the S in ESG is crucial to energy transition success
This isn’t about virtue-signalling or a box-ticking exercise. It is fundamental to ensuring long-term resilience and retaining a social licence.
Super funds are not a piggy bank for Labor’s pet projects
Chalmers’ vow to put to bed “needless brawls” on super is contradicted by his attempts to wager Australian’s retirement savings to prop up nation-building policies.
Iran-Israel conflict exposes Trump’s impotent diplomacy
Donald Trump’s claim that his “proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier” looks increasingly hollow.
Capital market shake-up should preserve shareholder interests
The ASIC review, while well-intentioned, runs the risk of descending into a lobbying opportunity for business and a public relations exercise for the regulator.
G7 Summit will be a test of Albanese’s diplomatic skill
Foreign policy and trade aren’t the prime minister’s strong suit, and he has also appeared flat-footed on key defence issues
How red tape and bad tax are choking Australia’s prosperity
The productivity summit must be more than a talkfest. If done well, it could be the basis for taking policy risks and reforms that underpin future growth.
Three ideas for ASIC to revitalise Australia’s public markets
As the regulator considers the vast array of reform ideas from its review, it’s critical that public markets aren’t contaminated by bad practices.
Three big ideas Treasury should put to Albanese on economic reform
This is a rare opportunity to go beyond short-term politics and deliver bold, long-overdue economic reform to secure Australia’s long-term prosperity.
Trump’s ‘one big beautiful bill’ is a danger to Australia
The budget is yet another tool to beat trade partners into submission. It threatens our companies, superannuation industry and sovereignty.
Jim Chalmers is wrong. The economy is not turning a corner
Labor’s super tax does little to fundamentally improve a badly unbalanced tax system that only grows more unfair, unwieldy and unproductive.
Workers’ compensation scheme needs to be reformed
With the burgeoning cost of psychological injury claims, it’s reasonable to question if the scheme’s coverage of injury complaints is too broad.
How can Australia navigate the AI-driven fourth industrial revolution
History shows that great technological revolutions have a pattern: rapid disruption, job displacement, and eventually, adaptation.
Government must step up its game on AI challenges
There is a growing sense that things are starting to get complicated as a growing number of companies start embracing AI as a driver of workforce productivity.
Can Labor stop Trump’s tariff assault on Australia?
The PM faces the daunting task of advocating for Australia’s national economic interests while ensuring the nation doesn’t end up dancing to Trump’s tune.
May
Brookfield has made private equity’s life harder after Healthscope
The failure of the country’s second-largest private hospital operator will have implications for private investment in social infrastructure for years to come.
Director Awards underline importance of greater boardroom diversity
Homogeneity undermines accountability, stifles directors’ willingness to ask management the hard questions, and causes boards to succumb to mere conformity.
North West Shelf green light signals warming to gas
It’s welcome acknowledgment gas will play a key role in the important net zero energy transformation that is proving longer, harder and more costly than first thought.
Brookfield’s comeuppance no cause for health policy complacency
The reality is that both taxpayers funding Medicare services and users of private healthcare will ultimately need to pay for the rising cost of the system.
Aussie big tech unionisation a sign of AI times
The tech sector is confronting its Frankenstein moment: the very workers who brought AI to life are now trying to survive it before it turns on them.