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Elon Musk faces battles on three fronts

The billionaire is dealing with falling earnings at his EV-maker Tesla, a fight over his multi-billion pay packet and a stoush with the Australian...

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Karen Maley

Why the ECB will cut rates before the Fed

It is clear that the ECB should start loosening quite soon. The underlying situation in the US is more evenly balanced. But the Fed, too, cannot...

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Martin Wolf

‘Ghost’ offices in the public service should rile taxpayers

On a recent Friday in Canberra, a deflated public servant friend revealed that there were only three people at work on a floor space that can seat...

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John Kehoe

Why Anzac Day’s soft power is so important to social cohesion

Any potential adversary knows that a low-risk way to wound a diverse, multicultural society is to pick it apart until it turns against itself.

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Simon Longstaff

Albanese’s investment fund doesn’t want to pick winners?

The new $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund is already doing strange things, including holding its first two board meetings on the same day.

yesterday 10

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Aaron Patrick

Why Beijing’s latest manufacturing strategy could backfire

Chinese industrial firms are facing intense downward pressure on their profit margins because they lack pricing power in their domestic and export...

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Karen Maley

Will Future Made in Australia push the RBA off the narrow path?

If the budget does deliver policy changes that add to demand, inflation will probably keep falling slowly and stay too high for the central...

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Paul Bloxham

America’s ‘supercharged’ economy can’t last

One overlooked reason for US resilience is a tonne of stimulus still coursing through the economy.

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Ruchir Sharma

Goyder will face the music at Woodside AGM

Even if the chairman now looks certain to survive a substantial protest vote and be re-elected, it all adds up to a firm rebuff of the company’s...

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Jennifer Hewett

Musk sets test for social media without boundaries

The sudden row between Australia and Elon Musk is a test of sovereign writ against the biggest companies – but also where government control of...

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The Afr View

Chalmers confronts Australia’s budget dilemma

Despite the global tensions and the national gamble on the “Future Made in Australia”, the treasurer is about to hand down another surplus next...

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Jennifer Hewett

Chalmers’ puzzling budget strategy for year ahead

Ideally, the 2024 budget should be slightly contractionary or, at most, neutral to help the Reserve Bank deliver the difficult last mile of...

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The Afr View

Cashed-up Ukraine is the front line of a bigger, looming conflict

America and its allies see Russia, China, Iran and North Korea as an axis of adversaries.

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Gideon Rachman

Goyder’s fight at Woodside highlights question of shareholder voice

Activist battles largely take place between big asset managers and their proxy advisers. Is it time their retail investors got more of a say in...

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Jonathan Wenig

US aid should arrive just in time to avert Ukraine’s defeat

Even more concerning than the growing size of the invading Russian forces is their increased competence.

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Max Boot

Let’s not waste the green energy opportunity

The government’s industry policy is not some throwback to the Deakinite settlement. It’s quite the opposite.

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Chris Bowen

History shows Australia needs a strong Productivity Commission

The Financial Review helped forge the political and intellectual opposition to the nation’s 20th-century industry protectionism, which was once a...

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The Afr View

Future made in Australia critics show old orthodoxies die hard

The existential climate challenge is Australia’s opportunity to reverse the policy settings that hollowed out manufacturing.

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Roy Green

Hearings shouldn’t be McCarthy-like blood sport

The Greens’ cheapening of the purpose of parliament’s power to compel witnesses to appear is too galling for Australian business to remain silent.

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Geoff Culbert

A hot tip for CEOs – reputation counts for everything

Woolworths, Qantas and AMP are among once-loved brands that have faced customer ire. Now they’ve added reputation metrics to executive pay...

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Jenny Wiggins

Appeasing Iran has proven weak and provocative

If Tehran’s power can be contained and then reduced, the Middle East will be a much more peaceful place.

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Alexander Downer

A traumatic week, and a need for calmer politics

Murder in Bondi Junction and terrorism in western Sydney have come to a country already demoralised by a cost-of-living crisis. Time for...

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The Afr View

New Malthusians are wrong: a rich world will need less energy

We will need to generate only half the energy we do now to replace today’s electricity use, lift the global South, and feed all those data centres....

19.04.2024 2

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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Business bankruptcies are at a 25-year high and that’s very bad news

In total 1131 businesses went bust in the month, which was the largest number since ASIC started collecting these statistics in 1999, writes...

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Christopher Joye

America’s Superman foreign policy flies again

The hard realism of Asian allies about America’s direction must jostle with the return of uncompromising American unilateralism.

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James Curran

Women know the true power of Justice Lee’s finding

It wasn’t just about one rape in Canberra. It is a pattern of male behaviour lamented by all politicians but which continues just the same.

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Laura Tingle

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