Yesterday
- Opinion
- Opinion
Labor’s best policy might be admitting Red Sea defence gap
If strategy is Labor’s reason, it raises concerns. If there is no available ship, it raises another set of questions about Australia’s alarming lack of military capabilities.
- The AFR View
This Month
- Opinion
- Opinion
More questions, no answers, about Turkish flights take-off
It would be in the national interest for the aviation white paper to lay out a proper pro-competition, pro-passenger framework so that regulatory decisions don’t continue to invite speculation about integrity.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Dutton’s political tactics are no governing agenda
The problem for the country with the Coalition’s approach of opposing much and proposing little is that the political heat is not being put on Labor to genuinely revamp its policy approach in the new year.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Rinehart’s common sense crucial to green mining transition
Policy-makers need to heed the calls by two prominent female resource sector leaders not to hobble the upstream mining sector on which the nation’s prosperity rests.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Votes at the UN are not for the home gallery
Voting for a one-sided Gaza resolution for domestic political reasons just betrays our foreign policy principles and costs us practical influence.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Mavericks on top of the Business People of the Year list
This year’s list reflects a world in which Australia’s biggest companies took a cautious approach to investing and dealmaking in an uncertain economic environment.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
MYEFO’s missing medium-term fiscal framework
Governments once were politically rewarded for keeping a tight lid on the size and cost of government.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
COP28: Beware premature predictions of the death of fossil fuels
Whatever the final climate conference wording, given the clear lack of global consensus, we should be wary of predictions that oil’s days are numbered.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Palaszczuk leaves behind a profligate legacy
Annastacia Palaszczuk bequeaths the next premier a temporary budget surplus built on a populist jacking up of coal royalties.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
No populist overreaction against immigration
While talking up limiting overseas arrivals, Labor has largely maintained a demand-driven temporary skilled worker program.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
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
- Opinion
- Opinion
Labor has no grasp of Australia’s need to compete
Everything Anthony Albanese has done since the election betrays an utter indifference to sharpening the ability of a high-cost economy to compete in the global marketplace.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
The $92b disability services question is still unanswered
The NDIS minister failed to drive home the real political message: as harsh as it may sound, expectations of what the NDIS can do, and for whom, have to be wound back.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Andrews fallout for Albanese
The question for the PM Catherine King is why have they decided to put federal taxpayers on the hook for Dan Andrews’ election boondoggle.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
States extract NDIS pound of flesh from Canberra
The insatiable appetite of the political class for higher taxing and spending is not matched by any serious policy intent to boost growth.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Jason Clare’s counter-insurgency must save the education revolution
The PISA results are an opportunity to draw a line under the failed educational thinking and practices that have allowed school students to fall behind.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
COP28 pledges and realities
Whatever the outcome in Dubai, the world will end its reliance on fossil fuels not to a political timetable but only when reliable, affordable replacements are a reality.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Australia Post’s mail modernisation
Plans for big changes prompt the question of why the government needs to own a postal service in this day and age.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
A permanent ceasefire would be just another temporary truce
Supporters of a genuine peace process should hope Israel can finish the job of protecting itself from Hamas as quickly as possible.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Drawing a line under a toxic surge of prejudice
Turning societies overseas into echo chambers of prejudice and conflict in the Middle East is not helping the cause of a settlement
- The AFR View