Going sane or insane we will still need gas
The federal government’s proposed gas-fired power plant is eminently sensible, unlike the rest of our energy aspirations.
Terry McCrann
‘Shock’ wages surge blows the budget
Wages growth over the year to the June quarter is going to approach 2 per cent, meaning it’s taken just one week after the budget for one of the key Treasury forecasts to blow up.
Utter lunacy: IEA’s fantasy future will waste trillions of dollars
The International Energy Agency has gone completely troppo and should be retitled the International Fantasy Agency after the release of its roadmap for the world to reach Net Zero by 2050.
Crown directors bet the house on Star
The Crown Resorts board has effectively embraced ‘The Big Merger’ with rival casino group Star Entertainment – but they want a higher price.
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Clear fiscal view, but one huge unknown
TREASURER Scott Morrison has delivered the first “reality” Budget we’ve seen in years, but there is one big blind spot, writes Terry McCrann.
Our week of pure irony
FROM fast trains to higher taxes, it was a week of bitter irony after bitter irony, says Terry McCrann.
‘Twiggy’ Forrest’s extraordinary success
ANDREW ‘Twiggy’ Forrest has executed an extraordinary success with Fortescue — the number three in the Australian iron ore business behind Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton.
Climate for a cash grab
LET’S strip away all the fine rhetoric and outright bombast — the meetings in Paris and in Sydney last week had just one target and exactly the same target: your money, writes TERRY McCRANN.
Transurban’s unstoppable gravy train
THERE is one clear-cut and undeniable multibillion-dollar winner out of what is now effectively a done deal — it is CityLink owner and operator Transurban, writes Terry McCrann.
Two roads to a growth future
NATIONAL Australia Bank’s road to a growth future starts by first getting smaller. Transurban’s road to its future is the exact opposite; it’s quite literally built on building more and bigger, well, roads.
Qantas will go broke if it keeps losing
ZERO in on one figure – $646 million. That’s what you can think of as Qantas’s “real” loss. Keep losing that every year and Qantas would go broke.
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