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When directors of Australia’s leading companies start questioning the profit motive on which their success was based, then the system…
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It is not going away. Corporate leaders are increasingly stepping outside their legal requirement to serve the best interests of…
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When BHP changes CEO on January 1, and a practical mining man takes over, hopefully the world’s biggest miner will…
Letter from Japan
With ubiquitous Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples proclaiming the nationwide universality of religious belief, Japan is the ideal location for…
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Beware! It is not merely an economic threat to Australia and the world. There will be far more serious consequences…
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‘It was just a good title for a book’, Graham Richardson protested last week, after a federal Labor front-bencher blamed…
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Twenty-three years ago deputy Liberal leader Peter Costello tried to prevent Tim Fischer becoming Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister. But newly…
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Having turned 80 last month and 12 years out of office, Australia’s 25th Prime Minister John Winston Howard’s occasional and…
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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…
Australian notes
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…
