Finance
JobKeeper’s $60 billion ‘bonus’
The miscalculation of how many Australian workers will take up the JobKeeper scheme – some 3 million less than announced – means red faces but less red ink on the national accounts 24 May […]
News
Business
China drops GDP target
The Chinese government’s GDP target is suspended due to COVID-19 uncertainty but that shouldn’t worry China’s major trading partners 23 May 2020 | Marcus Reubenstein (Image: Xinhua) For the first time ever, China will not set an […]
News
World gets its COVID-19 inquiry
World Health Assembly adopts coronavirus inquiry proposal with no objections… and one which looks very different to Australia’s proposal 20 May 2020 | Marcus Reubenstein The World Health Organization will hold an inquiry into the global […]
Comment
Murdoch Media’s Australian assets valued at $0
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is shrinking – Facebook is now 60 times the size – yet its political clout still has Australia’s politicians entranced. MICHAEL WEST asks, when will its hold over governments fade? 19 […]
Economy
Dark clouds for barley farmers
Australia’s trade minister says there will be no tit-for-tat as Australian barley exports to China are hit with an 80% tariff 19 May 2020 | Marcus Reubenstein In a process which began over two years […]
Comment
Europe must learn a new China game
COVID-19 will prompt many European policymakers to give more than just a passing thought to China 18 May 2020 | Professor Kerry Brown (Image: Arthur Osipyan) The dramatic impact of COVID-19 on Europe has awakened […]
Economy
Global markets retreat
Global share markets pulled back over the last week on worries about second waves of VODI-19 outbreaks, the economic outlook and tensions with China 10 May 2020 | Shane Oliver, AMP Capital (Image: Maksym Kaharlytskyi) It’s been […]
Economy
Emerging from the lockdown
While Australia takes its first cautious steps out of COVID-19 restrictions some Asian and European nations have already stepped forward 15 May 2020 | Changyong Rhee and Poul M. Thomsen, IMF Several countries in Asia […]
News
Beef exports on ice
Tensions between Australia and its biggest trading partner rise as China suspends import licences of four beef producers 12 May 2020 | Staff Writers (Image: Victoria Shes) The immediate future of Australia’s $3 billion plus […]
Economy
Derailing the export train?
Submissions to a parliamentary inquiry identify risks associated with over-reliance on single export markets but also highlight little has been done to mitigate those risks 12 May 2020 | Su-Lin Tan, SCMP (Image: Rio Tinto) […]
News
A trumped up EXCLUSIVE?
The line between media and politics has been blurred in this coronavirus crisis but has Murdoch media been caught out overstepping the mark? 11 May 2020 | Marcus Reubenstein What’s wrong with the above two “EXCLUSIVE” […]
Economy
Economy getting ready to move
With a dramatic drop in new infections, Australia is reopening with a three staged easing of restrictions with the aim of having much of the economy operating again by July in a coronavirus safe environment […]
Business
Legitimate beef or a load of bull?
So much for the feared China foreign investment invasion, in the first big COVID-19 foreign land sale Chinese investors have sold back a parcel of Australian grazing land six times the size of Hong Kong […]
Economy
The Lucky Country
There’s some clear gaps between Australia and the rest of the world which show we may emerge from this period of global misery better than most nations 7 May 2020 | Shane Oliver, AMP Capital Back in […]
Economy
Out of options on RBA rates
Given the gloomy coronavirus outlook the Reserve Bank could keep Australia’s historic low cash rate at 0.25% for the next three years 5 May 2020 | Shane Oliver, AMP Capital As widely expected, at its May meeting […]