Yesterday
- Opinion
- Opinion
Albanese must put down a Quad marker in Tokyo
The new prime minister should use his debut on the global stage to explicitly signal that Australia’s support for the four-power regional grouping is entirely bipartisan.
- The AFR View
This Month
- Opinion
- Opinion
Small-target Labor now needs a big agenda
The teal independents are there because old voter coalitions are breaking up, because the traditional labour-capital divide is giving way to new tribal and identity differences.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Labor set to win an election but not a mandate
It would be an unusual win for Labor - with no grand policy ambitions or sweeping difference from the incumbent Coalition government.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Labor has failed to make a case against Morrison, or for itself
Due to its small target strategy, Labor has not made a convincing case for changing the government.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
A bipartisan policy face on a troubled world
The election sniping on foreign policy matters hides the fact that there are few differences on the biggest geopolitical challenges since 1945.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Australia’s carbon challenge
Notwithstanding the major party truce, the 2022 election has not fully confronted the daunting challenge and potential opportunities of decarbonising Australia’s fossil fuel economy.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Australia must switch to the right tax mix
Australia’s complex and distorting tax system is a mess because it lacks a first tax principles approach to raising revenue as simply and efficiently as possible, and at the least cost to the economy.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
An antiquated workplace system awaits another visionary
Australia’s IR system quite literally belongs in another century, and both parties are happy not to talk about it
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Australia must join the global fight for talent
Migration is a wellspring of economic growth for Australia. But just reopening the door may not be enough any more.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Reckless budget populism must stop
As they ponder who should govern the nation, Australians should demand budget repair, instead of leaving public finances dangerously exposed.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Housing gimmicks won’t make the Australian dream affordable
Drawing on superannuation falls far short of fixing the tax, pension and regulatory distortions that have made affordable home ownership a receding dream for younger generations.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
We’re all paying for a new world of big government
Labor is riding on wave of public demand for caring and protective government. But the question of funding it can never be escaped.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Jobs or inflation? That’s the big question
The 5.1 per cent minimum pay rise Anthony Albanese wants would risk a wage-price spiral that would jeopardise Australia’s low jobless rate.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
A realistic step in relations with Beijing
The cultural cringe that attributes the deterioration in bilateral ties primarily to the Coalition’s ‘out in front’ approach downplays the shifting tectonic plates of geopolitics.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Anthony Albanese’s jobs summit must strike a new wages bargain
The Labor leader should send the wage issues to the jobs summit he plans to hold if he wins the May 21 election, in line with his vow to govern like Bob Hawke and reform like Paul Keating.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Lower electricity price promises are wishful thinking
To successfully tackle its carbon challenge, Australia needs the political system to deliver more than the battle of talking points that dominated the leaders’ debate.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Will the Coalition’s economic populism turn Liberal seats teal?
To remain a genuinely broad church, the Coalition needs to find a way to persuade traditional Liberal voters that rational economics is vital for Australian prosperity and security.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Albanese talks big but thinks too small
The opposition leader rides on the reform coat tails of past Labor governments, but there is nothing in his program to tackle the scale of tasks they were willing to take on
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
PM without purpose faces death by a thousand cuts
Scott Morrison does not have a core set of political goals he can point to in order to repel the attacks of an equally ideas-free Labor Party.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Opinion
Tighter fiscal policy must join inflation fight
Labor and the Coalition should stop lying to voters about how important controlling the budget bottom line is to getting on top of headline inflation.
- The AFR View
