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AFR dinner attendees John Howard, Anna Bligh, Alan Joyce, Kate Howitt, Amanda Lacaze, Ann Sherry.

Who reads the AFR? Leading Australians share their memories

What influential business people and politicians at the AFR 70th birthday dinner in Sydney said about their history with the newspaper.

RBA governor Philip Lowe remains optimistic fuel and goods price spikes will not necessarily change inflation psychology.

COVID-19 and Ukraine cost spikes fuel inflation dilemma

Sharply rising fuel costs and supply shortages are fuelling an inflection spike, challenging the Reserve Banks hope of driving unemployment to historic lows.

  • Tom Burton
AFR

How government can cash in on the renewables boom

There is a wall of money looking to invest in renewables for governments that can create the right projects and regulatory incentives.

  • Tom Burton

PM’s chip supply plan ‘a mammoth task’

There are too many Chinese suppliers involved in lower tiers of the supply chain to ever hope to replace them all with suppliers from “like-minded” nations

  • John Davidson

The task of economic reform has no finish line

The need for reform is ongoing and requires commitment, purpose and the resolve to persist, even in the face of determined opposition.

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  • Josh Frydenberg
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Words from past a timely reminder on the journey to full employment

As Australia charts its way back to the lowest jobless rate in almost half a century, it would be wise to keep The Australian Financial Review’s counsel from 1963 in mind.

  • Philip Lowe
The Prime Minister is the man who now holds the mop.

Our flawed party leaders face off in an ominous world

This week’s Business Summit underlined a deteriorating world order. That is the background against which two unconvincing party leaders must fight for public acceptance as prime minister.

  • The AFR View
The Japanese port of Yokohama. Japan is one of the nations taking more of Australia’s export trade since rising tariffs imposed by China forced many Australian businesses to find new markets.

How globalisation can stop wars without firing a single bullet

Any retreat from the world, either by government or private enterprise, would not help keep Australia a safe and prosperous nation.

  • Ronald Mizen
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Watch: Q&A with guests at 70th dinner

We asked business people and politicians why they read the Financial Review. Here's what they said.

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Watch: Q&A with guests at 70th dinner

We asked business people and politicians if they remember the first time they were in the paper. Here's what they said.

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Watch: Q&A with guests at 70th dinner

We asked business people and politicians what is the best advice they ever received. Here's what they said.

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We asked business people and politicians when they first read the Financial Review. Here's what they said.

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We asked business people and politicians whether they read the paper or the website. Here's what they said.

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Tesla chair Robyn Denholm

Australia’s next unicorns will come from five areas

This is an edited extract of a speech given by Tesla and Technology Council of Australia chairman Robyn Denholm at the Australian Financial Review Business Summit 2022.

  • Robyn Denholm
Left to right: Michael Stutchbury, editor-in-chief of The Australian Financial Review; Meg O’Neill, CEO of  Woodside; Amanda Lacaze, CEO of  Lynas Rare Earths; and Kevin Gallagher, CEO of Santos.

Santos and Woodside see a solution to energy shock

The two resources giants believe the Ukraine war will create a power security crisis that will reverberate for decades. And they have the solution. 

  • James Thomson
Robyn Denholm says Australia needs more risk takers.

How Australia lost its appetite for risk-taking

Decades of uninterrupted prosperity has left Australian businesses unwilling to take bigger bets on technology, Tesla and Technology Council of Australia chairman Robyn Denholm says. 

  • Jessica Sier
Woodside CEO Meg O’Neill and Lynas Corporation CEO Amanda Lacaze at the Summit.

Energy disruption could ‘last for decades’

Woodside CEO Meg O’Neill and Santos’ Kevin Gallagher have warned high oil and gas prices could prevail for several years as a result of bans on Russian supplies.

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  • Angela Macdonald-Smith
Josh Frydenberg

No freedom without cost as war ushers in ‘new economic era’: Treasurer

Australians must be prepared to bear a higher price of living in return for standing up to aggressors, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has warned.

  • Phillip Coorey
Woodside CEO Meg O’Neill

Oil and gas spike into the energy transition

The energy price spikes of the past few weeks have sharpened the contradictions in the timing of the transition to renewable energy.

  • Jennifer Hewett
“Geopolitics is back and back with a vengeance,” the director-general of the Office of National Intelligence, Andrew Shearer, told The Australian Financial Review Summit.

The benign geopolitical world order is over

Russia’s aggression in Ukraine and China’s assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific show that CEOs cannot carry out business as usual, says Andrew Shearer.

  • Ronald Mizen and Tom Burton
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China supplies more container goods through the Port of Melbourne than any other country.

‘Big trade impact’ if China moves on Taiwan

Australia needs to keep diversifying supply chains to prepare for new conflicts and strengthen the nation’s roads and railways to withstand future floods and fires.

  • Jenny Wiggins
Andrew Shearer

Geopolitical risks are back with a vengeance

Events in Russia and China remind us that geopolitics is back and we have to be vigilant, national intelligence chief Andrew Shearer tells AFR Business Summit.

Matt Comyn, CEO, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Shemara Wikramanayake, CEO, Macquarie Group, and Alan Joyce, CEO, Qantas, at  the Financial Review Business Summit on March 8.

Great times ahead as we come out of the pandemic

The chief executives of Qantas, CBA and Macquarie Group foresee strong economic conditions on the way for their companies and for Australia.

“Geopolitics is back and back with vengeance,” the director-general of the Office of National Intelligence, Andrew Shearer, told The Australian Financial Review Summit.

Putin’s tactics will become ‘even more brutal’: intelligence adviser

Business, academia and government must urgently factor in the fast changing geopolitical world, the nation’s chief intelligence adviser has warned.

  • Tom Burton

‘Unhealthily high’ oil prices to stay for some time: Gallagher

Santos boss Kevin Gallagher says oil prices will stay elevated for some time; Fortescue Future Industries warns “the planet is cooking”; top spy warns major power conflict becoming more likely. Follow updates here.

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  • Georgie Moore and Lucas Baird