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Carnegie is flanked by Ron Walker (left) and Lloyd Williams after a Hudson Conway annual general meeting.

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

Bran Black says all investments must be expert-led, open and transparency and “unimpeachably independent”.

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
Chinese Premier Li Qiang and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Parliament House.

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
Panda diplomacy: Anthony Albanese will host Chinese Premier Li Qiang for three days from Sunday.

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
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will host Chinese Premier Li Qiang next week.

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
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May

Labor frontbencher Tanya Plibersek introduced the new environmental laws on Wednesday.

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
Adam Driussi, CEO of Quantium, says AI will become assistant coaches in professional sporting codes.

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
The advancement of artificial intelligence is our next big hope to improve our productivity.

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
Business Council of Australia CEO Bran Black was a lone voice on the committee.

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
Jim Chalmers at the Lowy Institute in Sydney on Wednesday.

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

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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
Narendra Modi on stage with Prime Minister  Anthony Albanese in Sydney in May last year.

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
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Industry Minister Ed Husic will create voluntary guidelines and mandatory “guardrails” for high-risk 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
A solar farm in Lilyvale, Queensland. powering the sunshine state.

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

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
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China is becoming more isolationist, data shows, despite improving ties with Australia.

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
The supermarket giant has told the COVID-19 inquiry states going their own way was bad for consumers.

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
Treasurer Jim Chalmers is preparing the May 14 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
Treasurer Dr Jim Chalmers has porposed new financial reporting rules.

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

Peter Dutton in parliament on Wednesday.

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

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