Leo D'Angelo Fisher
CEO pay: How high-flying Qantas CEO Alan Joyce pipped Apple boss Tim Cook
CEO salaries continued to astound in 2017. If Australia’s biggest companies have a formula that would readily explain stratospheric salary packages for...
Rupert Murdoch hopes the Disney deal will seal his legacy
When Rupert Murdoch is not publishing news he’s making it. His decision to sell 21st Century Fox’s film and television assets to...
Amazon’s arrival in Australia may be greatly exaggerated
For an 800-pound gorilla, Amazon has been remarkably coy about its Australian plans. Its widely anticipated full public launch on November 24...
Take a bow, Alan Joyce: CEOs make it their business to speak up for a better Australia
When it comes to entering the political arena, the attitude of business leaders in Australia has tended to be: mind your own...
Adani highlights everything wrong with Australian politics today
A ready explanation of why Australians hold politicians in such low esteem can be found in a solitary word: Adani. Queensland Labor...
Westpac CEO Brian Hartzer’s $7 million pay cheque is bank business as usual
Bank customers who dared to hope that this was the year in which the big banks finally got the message that they...
Call for a living wage is not a radical proposal: it’s a basic entitlement
When the union movement called for the minimum wage to be replaced by a so-called ‘living wage’ on Thursday, the most confronting aspect...
AWU raids reveal depth of Turnbull government’s desperation
The dramatic federal police raids of the Sydney and Melbourne offices of the Australian Workers Union tell us everything we need to...
Cuts to penalty rates a step towards creating an underclass of working poor
Far from bringing the issue to a close, the recent decision of the Federal Court to uphold what amounts to a wages...
Holden’s departure from Australia leaves a gaping hole in the economy
The closure of Holden’s production facility in Adelaide on Friday marked the end of car manufacturing in Australia. It was an emotional...