Labor has made a big miscalculation on Qantas, plus nine more great opinion reads

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Labor has made a big miscalculation on Qantas Government intervention and picking winners is becoming more frequent. But the Albanese government has clearly backed the wrong horse in Qantas. — James Thomson

Alan Joyce has steered Qantas back to staggering profitabilty. David Rowe

Fortescue needs to find its balance again The miner’s superpower has been its ability to balance entrepreneurialism and governance stability. The departure of yet another executive says something is out of whack. — James Thomson

All of a sudden, the stage three tax cuts are the good guy The government is backgrounding that the GST is a state tax. It is not. John Howard tried to make the same claim. — Phillip Coorey

The penny has finally dropped on income tax burden There are at least three achievable ways to alleviate the intergenerational inequities in the tax system to take pressure off workers and not harm economic growth. -John Kehoe

Joyce grilling is a warning for CEOs The pummelling Alan Joyce received at the hands of a Senate committee shows how political heat over cost-of-living pressures is rising. — James Thomson

High inflation gives Chalmers cover to ditch the stage three tax cuts A growing number of analysts believe that persistently high inflation will force the government to scrap the stage three cuts and embark on a broader overhaul of the personal income tax system. — Karen Maley

This asset class has outperformed shares and property Agricultural land is the quiet achiever, outperforming equities and housing over the longer term. — Sam Tamblyn

Five serious answers why nuclear is the wrong solution for Australia After 10 years of denial and delay on climate action, I’m not interested in more years of distraction by a debate on an