12:00AM | The Australian Financial Review
The battle between major companies and unions over non-union contracts has all the outward appearances of a traditional industrial relations blue
12:00AM | The Australian Financial Review
The sensible reform atmosphere at the Pacific Islands Forum has been marred by two things, one central, the other trivial: the failure to date of Australia and New Zealand to press for the ejection of recalcitrant Fiji, and an Australian blooper in releasing an outdated and inept bio of NZ leader Helen Clark.
20 August 2008 | The Australian Financial Review
The Reserve Bank of Australia is no longer pulling its punches on the economic dangers that we face
20 August 2008 | The Australian Financial Review
Like many countries in transition, Pakistan's progress towards democracy has been fitful, with as many steps back as forward
19 August 2008 | The Australian Financial Review
The global economy of the 21st century is an unforgiving arena, where product lifecycles are shorter than ever, where what was new yesterday is old today - and where what was old yesterday can come up sparkling today
19 August 2008 | The Australian Financial Review
Kevin Rudd and his community cabinet colleagues were collared by irate South Australians last week and agreed to put an extra $50 million on the table to try to rescue the lower Murray
18 August 2008 | The Australian Financial Review
Nine months into its first term of office, the Hawke Labor government floated the dollar and deregulated capital flows
16 August 2008 | The Australian Financial Review
Being grateful for small mercies, we should give the Bracks report a single cheer for having stuck with the scheduled reduction of tariffs on cars to 5 per cent in 2010
15 August 2008 | The Australian Financial Review
The corporate regulator has flick-passed to government its concerns about the conflicts of interest inherent in the dual role of the Australian Securities Exchange as both a profit-driven corporation and market supervisor
15 August 2008 | The Australian Financial Review
Private equity is quietly re-emerging after being written off for dead when the debt markets dried up in January
14 August 2008 | The Australian Financial Review
Non-compliant taxpayers beware - the Australian Taxation Office has more powerful weapons at its disposal than ever before
14 August 2008 | The Australian Financial Review
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his government want to be seen as tough on the nation's banks, keeping them honest in the competitive vacuum created by the credit crunch
13 August 2008 | The Australian Financial Review
Australia is in the early stages of an infrastructure boom
13 August 2008 | The Australian Financial Review
Nothing could better illustrate the absurdity of the anti-dumping system as it is administered in Australia than the maintenance of so-called anti-dumping tariffs on steel products during a worldwide shortage.
12 August 2008 | The Australian Financial Review
Labor's luck hasn't quite deserted it in government - the nation is still enjoying its biggest terms of trade boom in more than 50 years - but unlike last year the rub of the green is going both ways
12 August 2008 | The Australian Financial Review
It has been some time since optimism about the prospects of post-Soviet Russia becoming a "normal" power, on good terms with itself and with the rest of the world, died
11 August 2008 | The Australian Financial Review
The impact of the credit crunch has forced adjustments in international prudential regimes
09 August 2008 | The Australian Financial Review
Kevin Rudd is probably the most internationally experienced prime minister in history but he has done an average job educating the public on the role of government and the need to compete in a globalised world.
08 August 2008 | The Australian Financial Review
When Prime Minister Kevin Rudd meets China's leaders, Premier Wen Jiabao and President Hu Jintao, in Beijing today and tomorrow, he has promised to raise the issue of human rights in China
08 August 2008 | The Australian Financial Review
The West Australian election in a month's time is the first real state electoral test for Labor since Kevin Rudd became Prime Minister in November and, despite the upheaval in WA Liberal ranks, it is unlikely to be a walkover.
07 August 2008 | The Australian Financial Review
The release of the 343 page discussion paper for the future tax system review shows the Rudd government at its best - and worst
06 August 2008 | The Australian Financial Review - Online
Corporate news snapshot for: Austin Exploration
06 August 2008 | The Australian Financial Review
The Reserve Bank of Australia has not been spooked into reacting to the nation's sharply slowing demand and gloomy sentiment
06 August 2008 | The Australian Financial Review
A minister in possession of a 600-page report on The competitiveness of retail prices for standard groceries must be in want of some urgent reforms to implement.
05 August 2008 | The Australian Financial Review
Meetings to talk about economic integration have become about as common in the Asia-Pacific region as territorial conflicts used to be, but the gathering of regional economic reform ministers in Melbourne this week is particularly well timed
05 August 2008 | The Australian Financial Review
Sunday marked three years since Morris Iemma replaced Bob Carr as NSW Premier
The US appears to be putting its houses - Fannie and Freddie - in order, writes Glenn Mumford.
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