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Reinventing the world of work
How can business and government work together to find more transformative, long-term solutions to cope with – or adapt to – the shortage of skilled labour.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
CFOs wave red flag on workplace shake-up
Letting labour monopolies and third-party tribunals impose politically horse-traded restrictions on how labour most productively uses capital will undercut the economy.
- The AFR View
Finance chiefs brace for price competition ahead of slowdown
The Australian Financial Review CFO Live event on Monday responded to falling retail sales data with finance chiefs reviewing pricing and supply contracts.
- Ronald Mizen, James Eyers and Hannah Wootton
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November 2022
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
What a $7 Kmart T-shirt says about inflation, capital and IR
Wesfarmers CFO Anthony Gianotti is juggling volatile input prices, a tight labour market and shifting capital costs as he navigates through an uncertain world.
- Updated
- James Thomson
The one funding request CFOs find hardest to reject
Leading companies are ramping up their cybersecurity budgets and trying to cut back on how much customer data they store to protect themselves from hacks, they say.
- Hannah Wootton
Santos says intervention will undermine efforts to curb gas crisis
Santos CFO Anthea McKinnell said, ‘I’ve never seen a tax that goes to reduce prices. Government intervention is not going to increase supply into the market’.
- Colin Packham
Tough market ‘fantastic’ for private equity deals
M&A is increasingly defined by higher borrowing costs and cheaper public company valuations, which has presented an opportunity for investment firms to pounce.
- Aaron Weinman
Employers are already ‘war-gaming’ the new IR rules
Finance executives also say the industrial relations reform doesn’t do enough to simplify awards but welcome changes to enterprise bargaining rules.
- Hannah Wootton
- Exclusive
- Company tax
Tax revenue from coal and gas is about to surge
ATO second commissioner Jeremy Hirschhorn said several major coal and gas exporters had exhausted losses carried forward from setting up projects, and were now paying significant income tax.
- Ronald Mizen
Banking in a higher rate environment
As the banks stare down a year of uncertain conditions not faced in a long time, where will they direct their capital?
Kinetic targets global growth as SkyBus comes under a cloud
Kinetic is targeting further growth in all transport offerings as the future of its SkyBus service remains under a cloud.
- Colin Packham
‘Business case didn’t stack up’: McKenzie slams Suburban Rail Loop
The federal senator said Labor’s $2 billion commitment to the project was to shore up the party’s hold in Victoria ahead of the state election.
- Updated
- Samantha Hutchinson and Mark Ludlow
Bids due within weeks for NSW’s first renewable energy zone
Three consortiums will submit bids to build NSW’s first renewable energy zone, a key pillar of the state’s energy transition plan.
- Colin Packham
The global scramble for electricity cables to unlock clean energy
Big players building out connections in the renewable energy transition are in a race to source enough cables and equipment.
- Simon Evans
The next big moneymaker for investment banks
Mobile network operators have monetised their telecom tower assets to the tune of $15 billion in the last 18 months, but for bankers there’s more work to do.
- Aaron Weinman
‘We’re not moving’: Lismore mayor vows to keep CBD on flood plain
A NSW government inquiry estimated the region’s cleanup bill after the floods would hit $3 billion, but Lismore’s mayor says the bill is approaching $5 billion.
- Samantha Hutchinson
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$18.4b bid helps Origin escape ‘catch 22’: Brookfield
Brookfield Asia-Pacific chief Stewart Upson told The Australian Financial Review Infrastructure Summit that Origin would face significant difficulties in funding its transition without access to private capital.
- Updated
- Lucas Baird and Colin Packham
Rob Stokes: Don’t lock in marquee projects to buff ‘legacy’
Ahead of the NSW state election, the MP said there was a temptation for governments to lock future governments into long-dated projects
- Updated
- Samantha Hutchinson
Thawing of China relationship could spur M&A: FIRB’s new chairman
Bruce Miller said the meeting between Anthony Albanese and Xi Jinping marked a stabilisation of ties that could revive Beijing’s interest in Australian infrastructure.
- Updated
- Colin Packham
‘Bloody-minded’: Stokes takes aim at rail union
“I’ve given up trying to say some of the concerns are valid, they’re generally not,” NSW Infrastructure Minister Rob Stokes said on Monday.
- Updated
- Samantha Hutchinson
Catherine King flags a ‘hard-nosed look’ at $14b Inland Rail
The infrastructure minister said her role was to bring “coherence” to the country’s infrastructure pipeline as costs rise and labour shortages bite.
- Samantha Hutchinson
Sky-high airfares unsustainable: Melbourne Airport boss
Lorie Argus said airlines had “put a lot of effort” into solving their operational issues, but this meant they needed to increase airfares to cover the extra costs.
- Updated
- Lucas Baird
The sentence that will control $3.4 trillion in savings
The government wants to enshrine an “objective of superannuation” into law. But will the push once again fall victim to the culture wars?
- Aleks Vickovich
