Michael Stutchbury

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Editor at Large at Australian Financial Review

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The current moment feels like the 1970s (not in a good way)

2 days ago | afr.com | Michael Stutchbury

Jun 6, 2025 – 3.21pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Jim Chalmers’ pre-election budget speech reckoned Australia’s economy was “turning the corner” and that “growth is picking up”. Yet, while the inflation landing may be soft, the recovery out of it is actually likely to be hard, as in difficult and disappointing. Loading...
Why recognising Palestine will ‘reward Hamas’ and torpedo peace

4 days ago | afr.com | Michael Stutchbury

Jun 4, 2025 – 5.08pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? After one of its worst security disasters, Israel has restored military deterrence over the multiple Islamist enemies who vow to wipe it and its 7 million Jewish inhabitants off the planet.
Israel’s Herzog urges Albanese to visit Jewish state amid growing tensions

1 week ago | afr.com | Michael Stutchbury

May 29, 2025 – 9.56am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Jerusalem | Israel’s President Isaac Herzog has pointedly responded to sharp criticism from Anthony Albanese, urging the prime minister to visit the Jewish state amid rising global pressure over its handling of the Gaza war.
Albanese’s triumph could also mark Labor’s use-by date

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Michael Stutchbury

May 23, 2025 – 3.15pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? What is the “progressive patriotism” that Anthony Albanese reckons leaves Labor as Australia’s natural party of government? And what is the Liberal Party after its worst-ever election defeat took down Peter Dutton and his outer suburban political strategy? Loading...
Aware Super, Wesfarmers and Bill Kelty join super tax fight

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Lucas Baird |Carrie LaFrenz |John Kehoe |Michael Stutchbury

Lucas Baird, Carrie LaFrenz, John Kehoe and Michael StutchburyMay 22, 2025 – 7.47pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?
RBA, Productivity Commission reveal why Chalmers needs to cut company tax

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Michael Stutchbury

The morning-after election victory pics showed Anthony Albanese handing out ice-cream cones to voters: a metaphor for why Australia returned a majority Labor government. But the picture could have included Jim Chalmers looking for well-heeled pockets to pick to pay for the political treats. Loading...
Australia’s soft economic landing will become a hard recovery as chief executives struggle to find earnings growth

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Michael Stutchbury

May 16, 2025 – 12.54pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? While not yet mission accomplished, Australia’s soft economic landing may be on track to bring inflation down to target while entrenching the jobless rate not much above 4 per cent for the first time in half a century.
How business needs to push Labor on growth

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Michael Stutchbury

Business needs a more united and determined front to pressure Labor on the central national question the election avoided. Labor has a thumping mandate to restore living standards, even after breaking its pledge to reduce household power bills and to increase real wages, and can look forward to another six years in power. Loading...
The axing of Ed Husic exposes Jim Chalmers and Anthony Albanese’s lack of agenda for improving living standards

4 weeks ago | afr.com | Michael Stutchbury

The factional hit job on Ed Husic has exposed Labor’s lack of any serious agenda for reviving business investment, reversing Australia’s falling productivity and restoring living standards. It exposes how Treasurer Jim Chalmers rebuffed the dumped industry minister’s first-term push for business tax incentives to drive a technology-based upswing in manufacturing capital expenditure. Loading...
Stronger unions will cripple Jim Chalmers’ productivity push

1 month ago | afr.com | Michael Stutchbury

May 9, 2025 – 3.41pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Jim Chalmers has put fixing Australia’s sagging productivity on the agenda for Labor’s second term. But that will run straight into demands from the party’s trade union paymasters for their rightful share of the election spoils.