Today
US jobless claims lingered near 10-month high
Applications for unemployment benefits have remained subdued over the past year, as the labour market showed resilience.
- Bloomberg News
Yesterday
Fast-track regional migration moves mooted
Labor has flagged abolishing occupation lists for immigrants looking to settle in regional areas.
- Tom McIlroy
- Exclusive
- Nuclear energy
Switkowski backs nuclear push, Dutton promises costings
Ziggy Switkowski says nuclear power has a role to play in the zero-emissions energy mix and would deliver a positive return to taxpayers.
- Phillip Coorey
Government moves to snatch control of students away from universities
The Albanese government is stepping into interventionist mode, planning to say how many students can study at a particular university and in what courses.
- Julie Hare
BoE keeps rates at 16-year high despite inflation fall
Some of the bank’s policymakers expressed concern that underlying inflation was still elevated.
David Rowe cartoons for June 2024
David Rowe is a multiple Walkley award-winning cartoonist. He draws a daily political cartoon and one for the Chanticleer column.
- Updated
- David Rowe
- Opinion
- Canberra Observed
Dutton is prepared to take risks, but he is no onion eater
The signature difference between what the Coalition unleashed on Wednesday and the debilitating climate fights of the past is that both parties are operating from the assumption that emissions need to be reduced.
- Phillip Coorey
Tech no hurdle for Coalition’s nuclear plan
Several proven technologies would fit the bill for the opposition’s nuclear expansion plan, while Australia has a head start on nuclear regulation, experts say.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
- Opinion
- The AFR View
CFMEU break-up overdue
The real source of John Setka and other union bosses’ political power remains the institutional privileges unions are granted by Australia’s archaic industrial relations framework.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Can big burritos save public markets?
We won’t know for many years whether Guzman y Gomez investors have overestimated Australian’s appetite for Mexican-themed restaurants.
- The AFR View
Alan Joyce’s bonus review in familiar hands
This being corporate Australia, one doesn’t have to dig deep to find the key players already know one another.
- Updated
- Myriam Robin
Nuclear to wreak ‘catastrophic damage’ on renewable energy
Clean investor groups say the Coalition’s scheme will take too long, cost too much, and is incompatible with timely and cost-efficient energy transition.
- Elouise Fowler
Who’s who in the Guzman y Gomez fiesta
This wasn’t an IPO debut. It was a pep rally. Steven Marks gathers the believers for his special debut on the ASX.
- Mark Di Stefano and Primrose Riordan
Victoria’s $14b Metro Tunnel has been delayed and will cost more
The bill for Melbourne’s long-awaited Metro Tunnel has spiralled past $12.8 billion, in yet another cost blowout for a major Victorian project.
- Gus McCubbing
- Opinion
- Investing
The fund meant to save Australia held ‘sham’ meetings
The $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund is struggling to find investments, but it is great at holding meetings.
- Aaron Patrick
Labor’s AUKUS embrace negates nuclear waste argument: Dutton
Labor has already agreed to establish a high-level nuclear waste dump under the AUKUS pact.
- Phillip Coorey
UK’s nuclear plant will cost nearly three times what was estimated
Expert analysis of nuclear power in Australia and the experience of countries overseas suggests the Coalition may have to spend $60 billion on its energy plan.
- Tom McIlroy
Super funds set to surprise on the upside next week
The expected returns were driven largely by strong performances from overseas equities, Chant West found.
- Hannah Wootton
Guzman y Gomez has a history of missing forecasts, documents show
The bottom line is this: Guzman y Gomez hasn’t been growing as fast, or is as profitable, as management had previously predicted.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Australia urged to list Iran’s enforcers as terror group
Canada’s designation of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corp as a terrorist group has put pressure on the Albanese government to follow suit.
- Andrew Tillett
