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ScoMo, please steer clear of anything to do with superannuation. Your unfortunate experience when Treasurer should have shown you that…
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It really is the greatest moral challenge of our time – and it’s not climate change. It is nationality versus…
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Now that Adani’s Carmichael mine in remote central Queensland is, after nine tempestuous years, under way since at last getting…
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A real political crisis? Or just some local manifestations of the West’s worldwide collapse of rusted-on party loyalty that is…
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Forget any post-election hubris. This may turn out to have been an election worth losing. And that is quite apart…
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Bob Hawke and Sir Peter Abeles; Bill Shorten and Anthony Pratt. What is it that attracts such close friendships between…
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The Australian Financial Review last week stood out like an island of integrity in a sea of journalistic mendacity when…
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Labor’s water hypocrisy What water scandal? ‘I acted on the recommendations of my department which had conducted an independent, competitive…
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Tell him he’s dreamin’. There is no way Bill Shorten’s 50 per cent hike in capital gains tax will raise…
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The contribution to Australia’s cultural life by my old friend and long-standing colleague Peter Coleman demonstrated that to be an…
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It was utter bunkum; but typical self-delusion by those ideological crusaders determined to do whatever it takes ‘to save the…
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Is it $8.5 million of BHP’s shareholders’ money wasted on a directors’ virtue-signalling frolic to further their climate change credentials…
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It’s like the farcical Fawlty Towers admonition not to mention the war; in the real world it could not be…
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Who needs parliament to make laws when there are clever judges who reckon they can do a far better job…
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Business generally finds nothing unusual or disturbing about otherwise inconsequential Liberal politicians achieving their once-only 15 minutes of notoriety (let’s…
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The omens for Australia point to a lousy 2019 – politically, economically, commercially and internationally. Fear that Coalition election defeats…
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An act of utter corporate bastardry – but there was no alternative. When the Commonwealth Bank’s new duo of chairman…
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Beware of lawyers making recommendations about regulating the business community; they will inevitably lead to more business – for lawyers.…
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Is it a bridge too far leading to the destruction of the profit-based entrepreneurial capitalism that has brought us our…
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Whatever the outcome of Saturday’s green-tainted global-warming-fixated Wentworth by-election, it won’t knock King Coal off his economy-boosting throne. And there…
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You won’t find it in the headlines about the Hayne Royal Commission’s 1,000-page interim report that slammed the greed, ‘profit…
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As disasters go, 9/11 is now much less of a problem for the world than 9/15. There are no widespread…
Toasting Brexit
When Yes, Prime Minister’s Sir Humphrey explained in 1986 to his PM that the determination of the British Foreign Office…
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It’s the customary corporate cop-out. Big business these days is more risk-averse than entrepreneurial. So the business lobby groups have…
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Continuing Hayne Royal Commission revelations of institutional dishonesty by Australia’s big four banks have not only killed off Malcolm Turnbull’s…
