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Yesterday

Ongoing regulatory uncertainty risks stifling AI adopting and strangling innovation for companies.

Chalmers bets on AI to revive stagnant economy

It’s imperative that informed voices in the tech industry play a role in advocating for policies that can boost investment, infrastructure and deployment.

  • The AFR View

This Month

With recent news that the Treasury believes the government’s ambitious 1.2 million homes target won’t be met, the clear solution is to let the market deliver housing to meet community needs.

The 3 intergenerational challenges Chalmers’ roundtable must fix

If the government wants true long-term productivity gains, it can look to three areas that happen to be where the intergenerational compact is most broken.

  • Trisha Jha
There can be nothing Jim Chalmers will hear next month that he could not have learned from company reports and a friendly meeting with the ACTU. But Labor has learnt the power of consensus.

Chalmers’ reform summit will be 3 days of nothingness

The meeting will end in the usual whimper with a fleeting sideways glance at productivity, where business groups have already capitulated.

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  • Pru Goward

In Pictures: 8th Australia-China CEO Roundtable

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Chinese Premier Li Qiang met with executives from Australian and Chinese businesses in Beijing.

Profligate spending must be brought under control before the government can consider increasing the tax-to-GDP take. While Chalmers signalled an openness to spending cuts to fix the long-term structural budget deficit on Monday, the Albanese government’s first term was marked by poor fiscal discipline.

Time to root out Australia’s tax system rot

Fixing the most damaging parts of our tax system won’t be painless, but it’s necessary to stop the nation sliding further behind.

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Political honesty will also require a clear, economically driven framework within which discussions, and ultimately decisions will be made.

Roundtable can’t shortchange companies on tax again

We must not repeat past processes when seeking consensus resulted in cherry-picked revenue raising and compliance burdens.

  • Michelle de Niese
Some of the nation’s largest superannuation funds have had customer data breached.

Chalmers’ roundtable must rise to Australia’s economic challenges

There are worrying signs that the three-day talkfest in Canberra risks becoming another missed opportunity to properly tackle the nation’s economic malaise.

  • The AFR View

June

Queensland Treasurer David Janetzki has now threatened to play hardball over the GST carve-up by leveraging reform of the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

GST fix requires bigger tax rethink

Rather than playing beggar thy neighbour over the GST, state premiers and treasurers should demand that genuine reform be on the table in two months.

  • The AFR View

November 2024

Transurban’s Simon Moorfield says AI is helping keep its roads in better shape, and responsibility for AI is being shared across the company.

Tech chiefs feel the heat of boards’ AI expectations

Fear among board directors and chief executives that they will be left behind in AI use by fleeter footed rivals’ is piling the pressure on tech executives.

  • Paul Smith
Shaneen Marshall, chief of technology and strategy at Zurich Financial.

AI gets real as big business finds its feet

An era of cautious, low-stakes experimentation is rapidly giving way to tangible changes in how some of Australia’s largest operations run.

  • Paul Smith
Kim Krogh Andersen, Telstra’s product and technology chief, says AI will change how it deals with customers, but humans will still be present.

Telstra and ANZ say human call centres will have AI agents

The way companies deal with their customers is going to change in the AI era, two of Australia’s biggest companies say, but humans will still be involved.

  • Paul Smith
Bran Black CEO, BCA at the Financial Review and Salesforce roundtable on Businesses’ great AI challenge

Should regulators have a light touch with AI rules?

Managing AI risks is all about making the most of the human safety net.

  • Alexandra Cain
Frank Fillmann, General Manager, ANZ, Salesforce

AI produces efficiency dividends for Australian business

Combining the best of artificial intelligence with human experience is creating genuine productivity gains.

  • Alexandra Cain

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