Essays & reportage
29 October 2021
Tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes is using his wealth to shake up Australian business and politics
International
28 October 2021
China is waking up to the downside of its world-beating level of alcohol consumption
Essays & reportage
1 October 2021
The online retailer expanded massively during the Covid-19 pandemic, but where does that leave the rest of the American economy?
National affairs
27 September 2021
Largely hidden from view, cross-ownership of competing companies is damaging the economy and fuelling inequality
Essays & reportage
24 September 2021
John Elliott — who died this week — in many ways personified the business excesses of Australia’s 1980s
Books & arts
23 August 2021
“We should be civil with those we don’t know, and aim to know them well enough that we can be uncivil,” argues a new book
National affairs
19 August 2021
Mergers and acquisitions are booming, but their benefits are often overstated and their costs greater than ever
Books & arts
8 August 2021
Gillian Tett, the woman who predicted the global financial crisis, uses anthropological tools to probe how business works
Books & arts
13 July 2021
Rules or no rules? The Tech Giants have made some of their own.
National affairs
6 July 2021
The government is gambling that productivity growth will soon return to normal. Luckily, big reform is still possible
National affairs
30 June 2021
The 2021 Intergenerational Report marks a decisive shift in Australia’s economic debate
National affairs
10 June 2021
Australia’s criminal cartel law has hit its first speed hump
National affairs
9 April 2021
Why is competition commissioner Rod Sims more exercised than his international counterparts by Google’s takeover of Fitbit?
International
25 March 2021
With two of their critics appointed to senior roles by the US president, the big tech companies are on notice
National affairs
9 March 2021
Australia’s corporate regulator played a key role during the pandemic. But its critics still aren’t letting up
National affairs
23 February 2021
Has the government’s dislike of class actions coloured its view of listed companies’ responsibilities to investors?
National affairs
15 February 2021
The Labor and Liberal parties are in a race to the bottom in too many areas of economic policy
National affairs
17 December 2020
Casual employment can be fixed, but not the way the government wants to do it
Books & arts
8 December 2020
Books | How Lionel Barber rescued one of the world’s great newspapers
National affairs
5 November 2020
Business figures are taking advantage of ASIC’s internal troubles to undermine reforms recommended by the banking royal commission
National affairs
20 October 2020
Covid-19 could change how we work, for the better and — if we’re not careful — the worse
National affairs
6 October 2020
If the goal is to support workers, women, those hit hardest by Covid-19 and the growth industries of the future, the government should focus on services
National affairs
29 September 2020
With a wave of insolvencies on its way, the government could do practical things to reduce barriers for new entrants
National affairs
3 September 2020
It’s time to let go of our twentieth-century view of economic activity
National affairs
24 August 2020
The technology company’s latest valuation shows how big internet-based companies are using a public network to wield monopoly power
National affairs
19 August 2020
Once again, a Western Australian government is at war with a stubborn mining entrepreneur
National affairs
10 August 2020
The campaign risks reducing our living standards and hurting poorer Australians the most
National affairs
12 July 2020
State and federal strategies are ignoring where the jobs really are
Summer season
23 June 2020
Books | We’re not the only ones in the grip of this addictive beverage
National affairs
1 June 2020
Breaking self-perpetuating cycles of rising inequality will be key to Australia’s economic recovery