Business/Robbery etc
Is it $8.5 million of BHP’s shareholders’ money wasted on a directors’ virtue-signalling frolic to further their climate change credentials…
Business/Robbery etc
It’s like the farcical Fawlty Towers admonition not to mention the war; in the real world it could not be…
Business/Robbery etc
Who needs parliament to make laws when there are clever judges who reckon they can do a far better job…
Business/Robbery etc
Business generally finds nothing unusual or disturbing about otherwise inconsequential Liberal politicians achieving their once-only 15 minutes of notoriety (let’s…
Business/Robbery etc
The omens for Australia point to a lousy 2019 – politically, economically, commercially and internationally. Fear that Coalition election defeats…
Business/Robbery etc
An act of utter corporate bastardry – but there was no alternative. When the Commonwealth Bank’s new duo of chairman…
Business/Robbery etc
Beware of lawyers making recommendations about regulating the business community; they will inevitably lead to more business – for lawyers.…
Business/Robbery etc
Is it a bridge too far leading to the destruction of the profit-based entrepreneurial capitalism that has brought us our…
Business/Robbery etc
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…
Business/Robbery etc
You won’t find it in the headlines about the Hayne Royal Commission’s 1,000-page interim report that slammed the greed, ‘profit…
Business/Robbery etc
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…
Business/Robbery etc
It’s the customary corporate cop-out. Big business these days is more risk-averse than entrepreneurial. So the business lobby groups have…
Business/Robbery etc
Continuing Hayne Royal Commission revelations of institutional dishonesty by Australia’s big four banks have not only killed off Malcolm Turnbull’s…
Business/Robbery etc
Pigs might fly – but they will not be Australian porkers (or beef or lamb) flying into the European Union…
Letter from Munich
As a permanent reminder of the fragility of democracy when put under the combined pressure of economic crisis and populist…
Letter from Russia
The Football World Cup was a winner for Russia; tourists like me flooded in (to cheer a reasonably performed Australian…
Letter from London
If the crescendo of cranes towering above development blocks represents a city’s prosperity, then Manila and London are prospering. Setting…
Letter from Penge
Australia is now unwittingly linked even more closely with the dreary outer-London suburb of Penge. Not only was it the…
Business/Robbery etc
Australia’s current corporate leaders, the ‘managerial class’, are slowly destroying the capitalism that has made us such a great and…
Business/Robbery etc
Having politically sabotaged the government’s tax reform package (and endangering its own prospective corporate tax cuts) the big end of…
Business/Robbery etc
So what’s new? Twenty years ago, Westpac’s then boss, Bob Joss proclaimed: ‘Banks face shutting down entire divisions of business…
Business/Robbery etc
Whacko! American farmers have now joined the Australian economy in being seriously at risk of collateral damage from ‘friendly fire’…
Business/Robbery etc
Collateral damage – and it’s not only from the (unlikely) risk of a world-wide protectionist tariff war. ‘Friendly (economic) fire’…
Business/Robbery etc
Bed-wetters are on the move; the federal parliamentary Liberal party’s problem is now a liquid liability in Collins and O’Connell…
