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Robert Gottliebsen has spent more than 50 years writing and commentating about business and investment in Australia. He has won the Walkley award and Australian Journalist of the Year award. He has a place in the Australian Media Hall of Fame and in 2018 was awarded a Lifetime achievement award by the Melbourne Press Club. He received an Order of Australia Medal in 2018 for services to journalism and educational governance. He is a regular commentator for The Australian.

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Auctioneer Ed Riley at Marine Pde, Maroubra.

Falling prices, rising stress

The bank lending squeeze is set to get tighter, threatening a more serious fall in home prices.

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(FILES) This file photo taken on April 30, 2015 shows Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk unveiling large utility scale home batteries at the Tesla Design Studio in Hawthorne, California. Electric car maker Tesla said August 1, 2016 it won agreement from SolarCity to acquire the solar company for $2.6 billion, confirming a deal that has been criticized on Wall Street. Tesla announced the bid in late June, but it drew jeers on Wall Street, in part because of skepticism over the motives of Tesla chief executive Elon Musk, who is also chairman of SolarCity, as well as a major shareholder. / AFP PHOTO / DAVID MCNEW

Plugging into the battery boom

The coming global battery boom will explode demand for lithium but will also be a big boost for copper and high-grade nickel.

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30/8/16 Farmer Gregor McNaughton on his property near Seaspray, 200km south-east of Melbourne where he has 11 coal seam gas wells on his property that have been unused for decades. He said the CSG companies have been very good to him over the years.Aaron Francis/The Australian

Victoria’s amazing, unused gas

A remarkable gas reserve in Gippsland could transform Australia’s energy outlook. But politics stands in the way.

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Sturt Krygsman Business cartoon for 29-09-2017. Version: (Original)COPYRIGHT: The Australian's artists each have different copyright agreements in place regarding re-use of their work in other publications.Please seek advice from the artists themselves or the Managing Editor of The Australian regarding re-use.

US to boom if Trump gets his way

If Donald Trump succeeds with sweeping new tax proposals America and the world will be transformed.

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This computer-generated handout image released by the French industrial naval, defence and energy group DCNS on April 26, 2016 shows a 4,500 tonne Barracuda shortfin submarine. US defence contractor Lockheed Martin will supply the combat systems for Australia's new fleet of 12 French submarines, Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne said September 30, 2016. The Australian arm of the American defence giant defeated US rival Raytheon in a deal to fit out the 50 billion Australian dollar (38 billion USD) vessels. / AFP PHOTO / DCNS / HO / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Defence dud: we’ve done it again

The first review of its kind into Australian defence has discovered our submarine deal with the French is a shambles.

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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at a press conference in Sydney, Monday, September 25, 2017. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Time to get tough on energy crisis

The time for treating the rogue state governments of NSW and Victoria with kid gloves is over.

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FAIRFAX's Antony Catalano back in court on more drink driving charges. has been ID'd by reporter.Picture: Paul Loughnan

Banks have a lesson for Domain

Can Domain’s Antony Catalano succeed where a string of bank CEOs have failed?

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Silhouette of workers in the tunnels. Picture: istock

Mining’s surprise jobs recovery

A sharp rise in resources and energy job ads is a pointer to where the share action is going to be in the coming year.

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Private sector in record disarray

In 50 years of reporting on Australia’s private sector I have never seen significant lumps of it in such disarray as now.

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ATO toys with small business

It looks like the ATO has learned little in the past 10 months and still wants to play legal games with small business.

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