Opinion

Opinion and analysis from Pattrick Smellie, Peter Griffin, David Chaplin and Cameron Bagrie and a top-level group of New Zealand experts, including the BusinessDesk editorial team.
Furphy meets stoush: Google, Facebook and Aussie publishers

Peter Bale: Furphy meets stoush: Google, Facebook and Aussie publishers

Google and Facebook have taken an immense share of advertising newspaper publishers once thought of as "theirs." But the Australian government's solution to that is arguably a tax on competition.

Peter Bale 05 Feb 2021
Speculators gonna speculate; regulators gonna educate

David Chaplin: Speculators gonna speculate; regulators gonna educate

Even before the GameStop pile-on the growing scale of platform-investing, and the potential for fraud, was popping up on regulatory radars.

David Chaplin 03 Feb 2021
Climate strategy needs greater ambition for industry

Gavin Evans: Climate strategy needs greater ambition for industry

The Climate Change Commission's selective ambition risks closing off options.

Gavin Evans 03 Feb 2021