This Month
Tributes for Rod Carnegie, driving force for corporate nationalism
Sir Rod Carnegie, who had a major influence over Australian mining, business and national economic policy in the 1980s, has died at the age of 91.
- Andrew Clark
June
- Exclusive
- Manufacturing
Future Made in Australia Act needs guardrails against waste: BCA
Peter Dutton’s nuclear plans will scuttle the green energy objectives of the Future Made in Australia Act, the PM warns.
- Ronald Mizen and Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- Anthony Albanese
Albanese’s tough balancing act on China
The PM promotes a stabilised relationship with Beijing as vital for Australia’s national interest and regional security, but it comes with plenty of risks.
- Jennifer Hewett
- Opinion
- China relations
The contradictions in Australia’s China policy
Australia will promote the visit by China’s Premier Li Qiang as evidence the relationship has “stabilised”. But policy tensions and hard choices are only increasing.
- Jennifer Hewett
- Opinion
- Energy transition
Climate pivot is Australia’s next China opportunity
The visit by Premier Li Qiang is an opportunity to consolidate our strategic relations with the world’s green economic powerhouse undergoing an era-defining transformation.
- David Olsson
May
Plibersek’s new environment laws friendless
Business, conservationists, the Greens and key crossbenchers have all criticised Labor’s plans for a new Environment Protection Agency.
- Tom McIlroy
Adapt to an AI world or be replaced, executives warned
“Hairdresser will use AI. Butchers will use AI,” said Mel Silva, Google’s local managing director. Others said a third of executives would be replaced.
- Tess Bennett
- Opinion
- AI Summit
How Australia can grab an AI advantage
We need an equal sense of hunger, optimism, and opportunism for Australia to realise the advantage of AI, write the BCA’s CEO and Australia’s Google boss.
- Bran Black and Melanie Silva
- Exclusive
- Federal budget
BCA quits big-spending welfare advisory board
The Business Council, representing top 100 CEOs, has left the government’s Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee, arguing it put insufficient priority on workforce participation.
- Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Chalmers’ recipe for friendly foreign investment ignores the basics
The treasurer has a grand new take on industrial policy, but there’s little evidence of the reforms that international investors seek.
- Jennifer Hewett
April
The unlikely CEO team tackling Australia’s toughest job
Bran Black and Luke Achterstraat represent business at the opposite ends of the spectrum but are determined to present a united front in Canberra.
- Patrick Durkin
Macquarie, ANZ and Canva CEOs help power Australia’s India push
Governments hope to prevent another false dawn in bilateral trade and investment by getting business to work on policy.
- James Eyers
- Exclusive
- AI
Business is about to get a say on AI rules
The government plans to announce a revamped expert group to shape its thinking on the pivotal new technology around the time of the May budget.
- Nick Bonyhady
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Let’s not waste the green energy opportunity
The government’s industry policy is not some throwback to the Deakinite settlement. It’s quite the opposite.
- Chris Bowen
- Exclusive
- Class action
Business slams class action lawfare firms
Business groups warn shareholders could be hit with billions of dollars in lawsuits backed by deep pocketed hedge fund investors under the Albanese government’s free-for-all class action setting.
- Ronald Mizen
The data that reveals the truth about Australia’s China ties
Although Australia’s relations with China have warmed, key metrics show economic ties are at their lowest levels in more than five years and are unlikely to bounce back.
- Michael Smith
Keep borders open in next pandemic: Woolies
The supermarket giant has told an inquiry inconsistent rules on freight movement and vaccine mandates slowed down essential supplies during COVID-19.
- Tom McIlroy
- Exclusive
- Federal budget
Budget to fast-track investment approvals
Treasurer Jim Chalmers is close to finalising a package to get capital flowing for the stuttering energy transition and other Labor priority projects.
- John Kehoe
Large companies must file climate reports from 2025
Large companies have been given a six-month reprieve on including climate-related information in their financial reports.
- Edmund Tadros
March
You have a moral obligation to speak up, Dutton tells business
Business leaders need the courage to say publicly what they say privately when it comes to industrial relations and the economy, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton told a BCA event.
- Phillip Coorey