It’s been a busy year for Australia’s consumer and competition regulator. The ACCC has made headlines, taking supermarket giant Coles to court over misleading discount pricing - and winning. A similar court case involving Woolworths pricing schemes is ong... See more
analysis Humanoid robot markets expand as Australia reckons with AI revolution Alan Kohler Mon 20 Jul 2026 at 5:00am The evening before Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's speech on Wednesday, in which he announced he was taking control of Australia's AI st... See more
Artificial intelligence is moving fast. Can the Australian government keep up? Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s much-anticipated speech at Sydney University this week detailed what he says makes Australia uniquely attractive to AI investment and outlined... See more
Justin Wolfers has spent 25 years in the United States watching the world’s biggest economy from close range - and from the useful distance of an Australian accent that still cuts through the absurdity. A former Reserve Bank economist and now Professor of... See more
analysis If you spent your time on the websites of the Bureau of Statistics, the Reserve Bank (RBA) and the ASX, you'd think things were going fine. Economic growth is a solid if unexciting 2.5 per cent, job growth is reasonably strong and unemployment is... See more
