Populist myths distort debate on food prices
Australian policy debates are often peculiar, but rarely more so than the recent debate about food prices in supermarkets, sparked by a lowering of the cost of milk.
NOTEBOOK: US outstrips Greece in debt stakes
With seemingly every day bringing more bad news from Europe, many are beginning to ask how much longer the United States has before its welfare state follows the European model into bankruptcy.
End the reform inertia
The hardest thing to achieve in politics is system-wide change. Too often legislative measures presented as significant reforms achieve little.
You want Rudd back? Why?
Here is a disturbing question: what policies will the government adopt if Kevin Rudd makes a triumphant return to the Lodge?
Revenge-fuelled and clinging to Kevin ’07
Like the Turkey voting for an early Christmas, our Prime Minister has decided she wants a Caucus meeting to deal with that uppity Queenslander Kevin Rudd and show him who’s boss.
Editorial
Tax concessions for ships will sink
Editorial | The recently announced extraordinary tax concession for shipping and the shipbuilding industry set a bad example of tax concessions supposedly to encourage an individual industry.
Cash only part of schools fix
Editorial | The Gonski review of education funding has taken a long overdue step towards de-cluttering the way schools are funded and focusing more on the needs of individual students than the schools themselves.
Gallery
Cartoon gallery | David Rowe
News, business and politics, seen through the eyes of The Australian Financial Review’s Walkley award-winning cartoonist David Rowe.
Snowball’s on weather watch
If Australia’s general insurance cycle is at its nadir, then Suncorp is headed for fattening profit margins and a capital management program in excess of $500 million.
Leckie channels riveted PMs
Seven West Media chief executive David Leckie was quizzed yesterday about his previously canvassed plans to step down some time in the foreseeable future.
Letters
US subs buy best option: Dick Smith
The US Ambassador’s offer to sell or lease Australia a nuclear submarine is the best news I have heard for a decade. Just how Australian Defence Ministers could ever consider submitting our submariners to the risks of century-old technology, where a submarine must surface every-so-often to charge batteries, is beyond belief.
Fairfax can take on online challengers
When Greg Ellis CEO of online real estate ad company REA Group (“Confident CEO mocks rivals”, February 22) says Fairfax’s acquisition of The Weekly Review is frankly beyond him he is absolutely right. Ellis is a solid guy but we all learn the hard way that hubris can lead to mistakes.
