Yesterday
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
The good, bad and ugly of business in 2023
Big deals, dud deals, scandals and success stories. In a year of high drama and big market moves, we look back at the winners and losers.
- Updated
- James Thomson
This Month
- Opinion
- Opinion
Tip private schools out of boardrooms for a more productive Australia
Favouring the wealthy over innate talent in the education system is no way to filter what a country’s human capital might have to offer.
- Adrian Blundell-Wignall
- Opinion
- Opinion
Unlucky Jim undermined by his colleagues’ contradictory policies
The treasurer is hoping for a smooth landing on inflation, but the supply-side policies of his fellow ministers make that less likely.
- Ed Shann
What top CEOs expect Australia’s economy to look like in 2024
Corporate leaders reckon inflation will linger, but say Australia will avoid a recession in 2024.
- Updated
- James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
C-suite takes us on a joyride of the economy
‘Resilient’ is the word of the year, and unemployment is the thing to watch, according to Australia’s big CEOs.
- Anthony Macdonald
Top CEOs say economy’s soft landing on track
Australia’s top bosses think immigration should bring another year of economic growth, but believe 2024 is likely to be tougher than this year.
- James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald
10 long reads for the weekend
Welcome to the weekend. To start off your day, we’ve curated 10 great reads to enjoy.
- Opinion
- Federal budget
The stage three tax cuts exist in a different world from 2019
As bracket creep starts to bite harder, the Albanese government might want to start rethinking where its tax cut focus should be.
- Laura Tingle
Australia will avoid a recession, says NAB CEO
Chief executive officer Ross McEwan says Australia’s economy is well positioned even if “it will continue to feel harder for some time”.
- Lucas Baird
- Analysis
- Analysis
Why interest rate cuts are in sight
History shows that central banks often begin cutting rates before annual inflation falls back to target. Markets are now pricing in two cuts before the end of 2024.
- John Kehoe
- Opinion
- Opinion
Simple financial advice requires tax reform to end complexity
A thicket of rules around retirement planning means making it easier for super funds to provide guidance will not be as transformational as some seem to think.
- Brad Ruting and Emily Millane
The professor, his student and a decade of ‘serious misconduct’
The sacking of star economist Chris Edmond has rocked the establishment. Academics are seeking answers from one of the country’s top universities, and the RBA.
- Mark Di Stefano and Aaron Patrick
- Opinion
- Federal budget
Responsible economic management key to Albanese government’s agenda
There’s no shortage of challenges in the budget or the economy, but the mid-year budget update shows we are making encouraging progress.
- Jim Chalmers
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
We’re still the iron ore lucky country. It won’t last forever
A surging iron ore price is driving Australia’s post-pandemic budget repair, the mid-year update shows. But the lucky country’s resources luck shouldn’t be taken as a given.
- Updated
- James Thomson
- Exclusive
- AUSTRAC crackdown
AUSTRAC to crack down on digital services in 2024
Digital currency exchanges, payment platforms, bullion and non-bank lenders will all be put under the AUSTRAC microscope in 2024.
- Ronald Mizen
- Exclusive
- Hiring & firing
The industries making the most people redundant
Almost one in four people made redundant between November last year and August this year worked in construction or professional, scientific and technical services.
- Euan Black
- Opinion
- Opinion
Senate horse-trading sends small business the bill for workplace complexity
The IR changes – and the opaque way changes have been prosecuted – run roughshod over the government’s commitment to make life easier for small business.
- Luke Achterstraat
- Opinion
- Opinion
How Chalmers’ fiscal goals lost all ambition
It is striking how modest fiscal strategy ambitions have become. If we look back over 10 years, there are valuable lessons.
- Robert Carling
- Opinion
- Immigration
Migration strategy is to turn around the backwards system
Immigration returning to normal after the catch-up is an opportunity to rebalance the program towards the skills we need to tackle Australia’s challenges.
- Clare O'Neil
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Forty years after $A float, no brave new world of prosperity in view
The anniversary of the bold decision is a reminder that the float set off a domino-effect of policy liberalisation that reversed Australia’s economic decline.
- The AFR View
