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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17/07/2022: Federal Opposition Energy Minister Ted O'Brien, at a large electrical distribution facility in Brendale, northern Brisbane. . Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

The nuclear debate that may change the nation

The Chris Bowen-Ted O’Brien contest might not only decide the outcome of the looming federal election, but is likely to deliver Australia’s first detailed energy master plan.

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02/05/2023: Registered nurse Karen Lawrie with Dr Ross Maxwell at his medical clinic in Dalby about 200 kms west of Brisbane. Both are happy with budget measures to providing more funding for nurses to work alongside doctors in GP clinics. pic Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

The $7bn grassroots solution by nurses to solve health crisis

Cost rises in the health sector are helping boost inflation and interest rates, so new ideas like the one from nurses to trim administrators should be considered.

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Amazon Australia will onboard 1400 seasonal workers ahead of the mid-year sale season. Picture: Supplied

Latest jump in Amazon customers should worry all retailers

Now bigger than Myer and David Jones combined and nipping at JB Hi-FI, Amazon’s rise in Australian customers is a clear warning to non-food retailers – adapt or suffer.

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DAILY TELEGRAPH MARCH 28, 2024. EMBARGOED FOR THE DAILY TELEGRAPH FUTURE WEST. Caddens within 800m of Caddens Corner that could have maximum heights and density limits increased. Picture: Jonathan Ng

Where O’Neil needs to start on huge job of fixing housing crisis

Eventually Labor’s Clare O’Neil needs to show the union-led superannuation funds how their role needs to change. In the meantime, there is plenty more to do to fix the housing crisis.

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CANBERRA, Australia, NewsWire Photos. June 21, 2024: Mike Sneesby, Nine Entertainment Chief Executive Officer, Michael Miller, News Corp Australia Executive Chairman and Jeffrey Howard, Seven West Media Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer appear before the Joint Select Committee on Social Media and Australian Society at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Why Nine’s marriage with Fairfax has been crippling

Investment bankers are understood to be putting out feelers to the capital community seeking people prepared to break up the embattled media company, but at this stage there are no takers.

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Generic CFMEU signage on a building site at Newstead, Brisbane. Newstead Friday 19th July 2024 Picture David Clark

CFMEU’s alleged crimes could take down more than Brisbane Olympics

The union’s alleged criminal links are starting to weigh on political opinion polls, which should keep Anthony Albanese up at night. It’s also hurting Brisbane’s Olympic Games projects.

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(FILES) Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at the 27th annual Milken Institute Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles on May 6, 2024. Tesla and SpaceX tycoon Elon Musk lashed out June 10, 2024 at a partnership between OpenAI and Apple, saying the threat to data security will make him ban iPhones at his companies. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP)

What’s driving Elon Musk?

Tesla’s boss is learning the hard way the hazards of extensive diversification, and playing politics, when you are involved in a vigorous corporate war.

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(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on July 22, 2024 shows US Vice President Kamala Harris arriving for an event honoring National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championship teams from the 2023-2024 season, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC on July 22, 2024 and former US President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump standing on stage after accepting his party's nomination on the last day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 18, 2024. Democrats rapidly coalesced around Vice President Kamala Harris on July 22, 2024 as she raced to secure the party's nomination to take on Donald Trump in November in the wake of President Joe Biden's sensational exit. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI and Patrick T. Fallon / AFP)

Get ready, Trump vs Harris election battle to change the world

The looming battle between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will define future world patterns not just in trade and energy but in education, the environment, migration parental rights, abortion, gender, religion and other social issues.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announces Labor candidate for Brisbane Madonna Jarrett, Brisbane. Picture: Liam Kidston

Watch out, Labor to ‘savage’ family businesses

Many family enterprises will be made to share management control of their business with newly appointed union delegates under new IR laws. And that’s just the start.

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Star of the South 3D digital model showing Australia's first offshore wind project. Proposed to be located off the south coast of Gippsland,Picture: Supplied

Follow the money, the nuclear debate shouldn’t even be a debate

It may come as no surprise, but offshore wind will cost even more than we’re being led to believe. Ridiculously more.

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