Bernard Keane, Author at SmartCompany

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Qantas, PwC, Rio Tinto, Crown, the banks: There’s something rotten at the big end of town

Bernard Keane and Glenn Dyer argue that Qantas is the latest indicator of the rot at the soul of Australian businesses.

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Opinion: The BCA masquerading as an advocate for climate action is beyond farcical

Bernard Keane explains why the Business Council’s (BCA) “Seize the moment” report is so heavily laden with irony.

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Too many sins to count: Why PwC must not audit again

Any company or government that sticks with PwC is signalling its approval of sins too numerous to count, writes Bernard Keane.

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Retail slump results in 46,000 job losses in three months

Was the retail data released yesterday really bad enough to justify comparisons to the financial crisis?

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Ageing population and shrinking workforce requires a major policy reset for Australia

The rapidly changing nature of Australia’s workforce is an issue policymakers and the economic commentariat are going to have to get their heads around.

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A mountain of complaints: Why once-iconic Qantas needs a systematic overhaul

Labor has also allowed the ACCC’s airline monitoring brief to lapse, meaning there is no regular oversight of the kind that identified Qantas’s price-gouging.

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RBA governor blames labour growth – not price gouging – for inflation

Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Philip Lowe has retreated back into full-scale denialism about the central role of profit-gouging in inflation.

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Fossil fuel giants paid no tax in 2020-21 despite billions in revenue, says ATO report

Who's paying and not paying tax? Iron ore miners and banks paid a lot in 2020-21 — but fossil fuel companies not so much.

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Labor wants to build 1 million new houses. Is that possible?

The government is promising a massive housing construction surge all the way to the end of the decade. How will it work?

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NSW generates more than 30% of Australia’s GDP, but Labor has given it just 10% of the infrastructure funding

Why is Darwin getting more infrastructure funding than the whole of NSW from the federal government? Pork-barrelling.

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Governments are freaking out financial markets, and it could derail Australia’s budget

The Bank of England has once again needed to intervene in the UK and financial markets everywhere are skittish and lack confidence in governments.

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After Qantas goes meat-only, Virgin says all vegetarians welcome on its flights

If you're a frequent air traveller and a vegetarian, don't despair — you can fly Virgin instead of with the meat-eaters at Qantas.

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