This Month
Diggers & Dealers lavishes riches upon favoured scribes
The award handed out at the annual Diggers & Dealers conference is on current gold prices worth nearly $4000.
- Myriam Robin
July
Deloitte 1, Jim Chalmers 0
Deloitte is sceptical of the government’s Future Made in Australia policy. Did that lead Jim Chalmers to slap down its economic forecasting too?
- Updated
- Myriam Robin
June
- Exclusive
- Media & marketing
Bruce Gordon backs Nine as $550m stake fuels succession questions
The billionaire says the publishing and broadcast giant is a company “worth investing in” despite turmoil, controversy and the abrupt departure of its chairman.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Catherine West takes Nine’s helm – and crisis – from Peter Costello
The broadcast and publishing giant’s new chair is in the biggest role of her life, steering a company reeling through an uncertain future. Is she up for it?
- Max Mason and Sam Buckingham-Jones
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Nine’s needed tough calls
After Peter Costello’s self-destruction, new chairman Catherine West’s challenge is to turn around Nine into a growth business.
- The AFR View
Bruce Gordon, 95, bulks up interest in Nine
The billionaire increased his interest in Nine to more than 25 per cent, giving the billionaire businessman outsize influence just hours before a board meeting that resulted in the resignation of the company’s chairman Peter Costello.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Peter Costello’s sudden last dance
The Nine chairman didn’t seem to be too concerned about board succession before his brain snap at Canberra Airport.
- Updated
- Mark Di Stefano
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Costello departure won’t end questions hanging over Nine
The media giant’s cultural crisis is far from over, but CEO Mike Sneesby and new chairman Catherine West have a long list of strategic questions to reckon with.
- Updated
- James Thomson
Far-right surges in EU elections | 2000 education jobs lost already | Questions still hang over Nine
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Peter Costello resigns as Nine Entertainment chairman
The former federal treasurer’s position had been in the air after a run-in with a reporter at Canberra Airport last week.
- Updated
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Nine board meets hours after Costello incident with journalist
Nine Entertainment’s board met on Friday morning to discuss an altercation between its chairman and a journalist the night before.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Peter Costello denies pushing Canberra journalist
The Nine Entertainment chairman says he did not assault a journalist who approached him on Thursday, after video of the incident showed the man falling over.
- Tom McIlroy
May
Nine Entertainment backs CEO, says TV newsroom needs culture rebuild
After a three-hour board meeting, Peter Costello co-signed a note to staff announcing a set of initiatives to improve the media giant’s workplace culture.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Costello backs Dutton on super for housing
Former treasurer Peter Costello has backed Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s super for housing policy, saying members should be able to choose what happens to their money.
- Updated
- Gus McCubbing
Coalition shifts goalposts on immigration cuts
During a National Press Club address, shadow treasurer Angus Taylor said the Coalition would cut both permanent migration and net overseas migration.
- Phillip Coorey and Tom McIlroy
Labor’s budget ‘inflationary on every measure’: Costello
Future Fund chairman and former federal treasurer Peter Costello says Labor should pay off debt while Australia enjoys record iron ore, coal and gas prices.
- Gus McCubbing
April
- Opinion
- Tax reform
Tax reform fail threatening the social compact of a nation
A new tax review will have to look at what this generation can do for the Australians of the future.
- Ken Henry
March
- Opinion
- GST
NSW needs to lead the charge on reforming GST share-out
Predicting what will come out of the GST distribution methodology is like cracking the Enigma code. But small states have a vested interest in keeping the status quo.
- Robert Carling
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Review points in the right self-reliant age care direction
Credit to the government for not simply ruling out making better-off Australians with healthy superannuation balances contribute more towards the cost of their care.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Four-year terms to end short-termism
New Business Council of Australia president Geoff Culbert pushed the idea at The Australian Financial Review Business Summit to “break out of the jail of short-term thinking” in Australian politics.
- The AFR View
