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Eric Johnston is an associate editor of The Australian. He has more than 25 years experience as a finance journalist, including a former business editor of The Australian. He has been business editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age and financial services editor with The Australian Financial Review. His work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal.

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20/11/24: Bran Black, CEO Business Council of Australia, Dig Howitt, CEO Cochlear, Lucy Nation, Australian president and VP, Hydrogen Australia, BP Australia and Rob Scott, CEO, Wesfarmers at theBCA Competitiveness and Productivity RoundtableThis is a roundtable discussion is exclusive to The Australian where four chief executives are speaking exclusively around the critical pressures in the economy as we head into an election year. John Feder/The Australian

‘Unlucky country’ warning from our business leaders

Rising crime and poor health outcomes have been triggered by sagging productivity and the tough economic environment, CEOs warn as they call for a ‘Team Australia’ approach on policy.

Eric Johnston and Perry Williams

CommentaryCompanies

Doctors and nurses pulling hospital trolley,

Healthscope overplays its hand in act of self-destruction

Australians are sick of having their health being used as a bargaining chip as hospitals and insurers face losing it all.

Eric Johnston

CommentaryCompanies

WiseTech founder Richard White at Wilsons Advisory FutureTech conference on September 25, 2023, in Sydney, NSW. Picture: John Fotiadis

WiseTech tries to move on from Richard White

In comparison to MinRes, the WiseTech board has managed to engineer the transition of a dominant CEO into a new consulting role. But investors are still feeling the shock.

Eric Johnston

CommentaryEconomics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - November 20, 2024: Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Chalmers the stock picker makes a bad call

The Future Fund has thrived by having the independence to make its own financial calls. The Treasurer wants to trash this with his own risky bets.

Eric Johnston

CommentaryCompanies

The long, hard slog of changing workplace culture at Rio

Overhauling a culture of sexual harassment and bullying is not a linear exercise and the Rio Tinto boss is finding out the tough way, as its two-year progress report is released to staff.

Eric Johnston

CommentaryEconomics

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the opening bell on November 13, 2024, in New York City. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP)

How Trump’s tariffs will change the path of interest rates

Much of the global tariff fight is set to take place between China and the US, but it has major implications for Australia.

Eric Johnston

AnalysisEconomics

Michael Rogers, director of the National Security Agency (NSA), listens during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, June 7, 2017. Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats told associates in March that U.S. President Donald Trump had asked him to intervene with then-Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey to get the FBI to back off its focus on former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and Russia probe, the Washington Post reported yesterday. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

The uncertainty Trump creates ‘is his tactical advantage’

There are two fundamental traits to understand how Trump approaches dealmaking says former National Security Agency head Mike Rogers, who is now in high demand advising business.

Eric Johnston

CommentaryCompanies

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MAY 03: People are seen walking past a Commonwealth Bank of Australia branch on May 03, 2022 in Melbourne, Australia. The Reserve Bank of Australia has today lifted the official interest rate to 0.35 per cent following a meeting today. The rise is the first interest rate increase since November 2010. (Photo by Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images)

The ‘big switch’ driving CBA’s mega milestone

There are big forces helping Commonwealth Bank to defy gravity and quietly move up the pecking order to be the 11th biggest bank in the world.

Eric Johnston

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Reckoning time: If claims are proven, Swan needs to resign

Industry funds got a relatively free pass during the financial services royal commission. But claims of painfully slow payments and the run-around given to grieving families by Cbus is right up there in the class of banks behaving badly.

Eric Johnston

ExclusiveEconomics

Global CEO and President of US metals giant Alcoa Corp, Bill Oplinger. Jane Dempster/The Australian.

‘We believe in free and fair trade’: Alcoa CEO

The boss of one of the world’s biggest aluminium producers has energy on his mind as he heads into a new year under a new president.

Eric Johnston

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