Robert Gottliebsen

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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LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 26: SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk speaks during an America PAC town hall on October 26, 2024 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Musk has donated more than $75 million to America PAC, which he co-founded with fellow Silicon Valley venture capitalists and tech businessmen to support Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump. Samuel Corum/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Samuel Corum / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Musk to score big time no matter who wins the US presidential election

Regardless of the outcome of the US presidential election, billionaire and Tesla boss Elon Musk is set to become the most powerful businessperson in US history.

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CANBERRA, Australia - NewsWire Photos - June 25, 2024: Senator David Pocock and Senator Jacqui Lambie during a motionÃÂ by Senator Mehreen Faruqi to move to have the Senate recognise Palestine as a state at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Senators need to stay strong on super law reforms

I am increasingly optimistic that the nation-damaging superannuation legislation will not pass the Senate in its present, disastrous form.

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Voters fill their ballots at voting booths, spaced apart to enforce social distancing measures due to the coronavirus, at a polling station during the local government elections in Noosa, Queensland, Australia, on Saturday, March 28, 2020. More thanÃÂ 3 million QueenslandersÃÂ are required to vote for representatives in the states long-planned local government elections. As of Thursday, about a third of people had already cast their ballot, through the post or in booths opened early from March 16, leaving the rest to line up even as restaurants, most retailers and pubs remain shut in a bit to halt the spread of the virus. Photographer: Ian Waldie/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Cost of living crisis has taken a nasty turn

If there is no cost of living relief soon via levers such as lower interest rates, the winner of the next federal election will be the party that relents and promises the most relief to voters.

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CFMEU, ETU and MWU members outside the offices of construction company John Holland on Lake St. Picture: Peter Carruthers

Queensland can beat organised crime in building

Queensland has a rare opportunity to transform the commercial building industry but it’ll be met with furious opposition from highly profitable building groups and the public service, both of which would need to develop new skills.

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27/10/2024: New QLD Premier and LNP leader, David Crisafulli, with the official Premiers Portfolio of in coming government briefs that he is working through, in the foyer of 1 William st, the QLD Government offices, Brisbane. pic: Lyndon Mechielsen / The Australian

David Crisafulli’s biggest task is the Olympics mess

The most difficult job for Queensland’s new premier will be preparing Brisbane for the 2032 Olympics with a commercial building industry beset with organised crime and radical union officials.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: Newswire Photos: JANUARY 08 2024: A general stock photo of the barangaroo skyline in Sydney. Photo by: NCA Newswire/ Gaye Gerard

Business margins under pressure, but NDIS firms are scoring big

Cost are rising for most firms but there is a boom area, supplying services to NDIS, whose budget is set to blow out by $8.8bn to $50bn annually by 2025-26.

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LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 20: Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks during a town hall campaign event at the Lancaster County Convention Center on October 20, 2024 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Trump is campaigning the entire day in the state of Pennsylvania. Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris continue to campaign in battleground swing states ahead of the November 5 election. Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by WIN MCNAMEE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Trump victory will lift inflation and halt US rate cuts

At the core of the Trump campaign are tariffs on most imports. The money raised will be used to reduce both corporate and individual taxes.

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FILE PHOTO: Machinery operates in a pit at Rio Tinto Group's West Angelas iron ore mine in Pilbara, Australia, on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012. Rio Tinto Group said Chief Executive Officer Tom Albanese will step down, after announcing a surprise $14 billion impairment. Sam Walsh, head of the iron-ore division, has been appointed as his successor with effect from today, the company said in a statement. Photographer: Ian Waldie/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Rio Tinto’s hidden lithium message to Canberra

Rio Tinto CEO’s $10bn Arcadium Lithium takeover presentation has a hidden message for the Albanese government. There is now a major ‘cost curve’ ahead in lithium.

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Ray Wardrop, Managing Director pushes Scherri-Lee Biggs, weather presenter in a chair in the new control room at Channel Nine in Perth.The Block's Scott Cam and Shelley Craft, WA contestants Dan and Carleen Foley, and former contestants Matt and Kim Di Costa are heading to the new Channel Nine building to put the "final touches" on the building. If we could get some general building shots with no people (both outside the building and inside the rooms as well) that would be great.External view of the Channel Nine Building

Why the Nine empire may be split up after damning review

Nine’s workplace review report didn’t detail a management restructure to overcome its problems, rather it was tacitly inviting capital markets to look even more closely at splitting the empire.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Jodie Haydon's new Central Coast home; construction workers; Jodie Haydon and Anthony Albanese; homes under construction

PM buys his slice of paradise but how about solving the housing crisis

I have been watching the construction industry for more than half a century. I have never seen it in such a mess.

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