by MURRAY HOGARTH | Aug 14, 2025 | Business, Opinion
When the stock market-listed mining company chaired by one of Australia’s most politically outspoken coal barons gets put into financial administration, you know there’s trouble in the world of the black stuff. That’s exactly what’s happened with Bowen Coking Coal...
by Stephen Long | Mar 19, 2025 | Analysis, Business
Take your seats, ladies and gentlemen, for Australia’s annual gas pantomime, guaranteed to scare the wits out of struggling consumers. Every year it’s the same tired script, where the villain is cast as the hero, and crisis is averted in the nick of time. Hurrah! The...
by Murray Hogarth and David Hardaker | Mar 17, 2025 | Business, Opinion
Industry Minister Ed Husic called it a “dog act”. A more diplomatic but nonetheless unhappy PM Anthony Albanese called it “not a friendly act”. But there’s a robust Queensland expression to describe US moves last week to hit Australia with tariffs, with the...
by Stephen Long | Dec 10, 2024 | Analysis, Business
Frederick Winslow Taylor had an obsessive personality. From youth, he counted his steps, measured the time it took to perform activities, and analysed his movements in search of “efficiency”. These days he might have been diagnosed and treated. Instead, in the early...
