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Who reads the AFR? Leading Australians share their memories
What influential business people and politicians at the AFR 70th birthday dinner in Sydney said about their history with the newspaper.
- Analysis
- Inside Government
COVID-19 and Ukraine cost spikes fuel inflation dilemma
Sharply rising fuel costs and supply shortages are fuelling an inflection spike, challenging the Reserve Banks hope of driving unemployment to historic lows.
- Tom Burton
- Analysis
- Inside Government
How government can cash in on the renewables boom
There is a wall of money looking to invest in renewables for governments that can create the right projects and regulatory incentives.
- Tom Burton
PM’s chip supply plan ‘a mammoth task’
There are too many Chinese suppliers involved in lower tiers of the supply chain to ever hope to replace them all with suppliers from “like-minded” nations
- John Davidson
- Opinion
- Josh Frydenberg
The task of economic reform has no finish line
The need for reform is ongoing and requires commitment, purpose and the resolve to persist, even in the face of determined opposition.
- Updated
- Josh Frydenberg
March
- Opinion
- Employment
Words from past a timely reminder on the journey to full employment
As Australia charts its way back to the lowest jobless rate in almost half a century, it would be wise to keep The Australian Financial Review’s counsel from 1963 in mind.
- Philip Lowe
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Our flawed party leaders face off in an ominous world
This week’s Business Summit underlined a deteriorating world order. That is the background against which two unconvincing party leaders must fight for public acceptance as prime minister.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Australian economy
How globalisation can stop wars without firing a single bullet
Any retreat from the world, either by government or private enterprise, would not help keep Australia a safe and prosperous nation.
- Ronald Mizen
Watch: Q&A with guests at 70th dinner
We asked business people and politicians why they read the Financial Review. Here's what they said.
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Watch: Q&A with guests at 70th dinner
We asked business people and politicians if they remember the first time they were in the paper. Here's what they said.
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Watch: Q&A with guests at 70th dinner
We asked business people and politicians what is the best advice they ever received. Here's what they said.
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Watch: Q&A with guests at 70th dinner
We asked business people and politicians when they first read the Financial Review. Here's what they said.
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Watch: Q&A with guests at 70th dinner
We asked business people and politicians whether they read the paper or the website. Here's what they said.
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- Opinion
- Opinion
Australia’s next unicorns will come from five areas
This is an edited extract of a speech given by Tesla and Technology Council of Australia chairman Robyn Denholm at the Australian Financial Review Business Summit 2022.
- Robyn Denholm
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Santos and Woodside see a solution to energy shock
The two resources giants believe the Ukraine war will create a power security crisis that will reverberate for decades. And they have the solution.
- James Thomson
How Australia lost its appetite for risk-taking
Decades of uninterrupted prosperity has left Australian businesses unwilling to take bigger bets on technology, Tesla and Technology Council of Australia chairman Robyn Denholm says.
- Jessica Sier
Energy disruption could ‘last for decades’
Woodside CEO Meg O’Neill and Santos’ Kevin Gallagher have warned high oil and gas prices could prevail for several years as a result of bans on Russian supplies.
- Updated
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
- Exclusive
- Josh Frydenberg
No freedom without cost as war ushers in ‘new economic era’: Treasurer
Australians must be prepared to bear a higher price of living in return for standing up to aggressors, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has warned.
- Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- Opinion
Oil and gas spike into the energy transition
The energy price spikes of the past few weeks have sharpened the contradictions in the timing of the transition to renewable energy.
- Jennifer Hewett
The benign geopolitical world order is over
Russia’s aggression in Ukraine and China’s assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific show that CEOs cannot carry out business as usual, says Andrew Shearer.
- Ronald Mizen and Tom Burton
‘Big trade impact’ if China moves on Taiwan
Australia needs to keep diversifying supply chains to prepare for new conflicts and strengthen the nation’s roads and railways to withstand future floods and fires.
- Jenny Wiggins
- Transcript
- National security
Geopolitical risks are back with a vengeance
Events in Russia and China remind us that geopolitics is back and we have to be vigilant, national intelligence chief Andrew Shearer tells AFR Business Summit.
- Transcript
- Coronavirus pandemic
Great times ahead as we come out of the pandemic
The chief executives of Qantas, CBA and Macquarie Group foresee strong economic conditions on the way for their companies and for Australia.
Putin’s tactics will become ‘even more brutal’: intelligence adviser
Business, academia and government must urgently factor in the fast changing geopolitical world, the nation’s chief intelligence adviser has warned.
- Tom Burton
‘Unhealthily high’ oil prices to stay for some time: Gallagher
Santos boss Kevin Gallagher says oil prices will stay elevated for some time; Fortescue Future Industries warns “the planet is cooking”; top spy warns major power conflict becoming more likely. Follow updates here.
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- Georgie Moore and Lucas Baird
