Alan Kohler: Australia is placing its recovery hopes on the trays of utes — and it’s idiotic
Join the dots: The biggest item in the federal budget in May was the $18.1 billion in business tax write-offs for capital...
Alan Kohler: Good try, G7, but your corporate tax changes won’t even tickle Google and Facebook
The new global minimum corporate tax rate of 15 per cent announced by the G7 on Saturday is described as “historic” and...
Alan Kohler: We need to talk about mandatory vaccination
We can no longer avoid a debate about making COVID-19 vaccination compulsory. At the very least it should be required for healthcare...
Alan Kohler: Morrison government snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
Viewed from locked-down Melbourne on Saturday, the festival of self-congratulation known as the Liberal Party conference in Canberra was nauseating. No sign...
Alan Kohler: Bitcoin is no bubble. It is part of a future we do not fully understand
Last Saturday was “Bitcoin Pizza Day” – the 11th anniversary of the day someone bought two pizzas with 10,000 Bitcoins. It was...
Alan Kohler: Deliveroo judgment could be one for the ages for workers’ rights
Last week’s Fair Work Commission judgment in Diego Franco v Deliveroo could be as important for our time as the Harvester judgment...
Alan Kohler: IEA lays out energy challenge as Australia missteps again
Forget the government’s ridiculous plan to build a new gas-fired power station in the Hunter Valley – it will never get built....
Alan Kohler: Why it will never be time for austerity
Josh Frydenberg’s third budget went further into the red of any budget of the past 50 years, including all of Labor’s and...
Alan Kohler: The Coalition’s (sort of) conversion to debt and deficits
If your head is spinning at the idea of a Coalition government that came to office shrieking about a debt emergency now...
Alan Kohler: How to cool the housing market is a pet subject
The well-meaning efforts of the federal government to help people buy a house will only make matters worse. On Saturday, no less...