Alan Kohler
AI’s dangers: Like fixing the climate, it’s another mission impossible
Before issuing last week’s Executive Order on the Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence, President Joe Biden went...
Alan Kohler: America and China are wrestling over the tiller of a burning ship
As the PM Anthony Albanese was rattling around Washington last week, trying to keep a straight face, and then getting ready for...
Alan Kohler: Rate rise or not, back the banks to win big on Melbourne Cup day
The favourite for Melbourne Cup Day is now Rate Hike, sired by Reserve Bank out of September Quarter CPI. The most important...
Alan Kohler: Make billionaires and multinationals pay more tax? I’d like to see that
OPINION Anthony Pratt says his superpower is that he’s rich. (He was suggesting, in tape recordings published this week by Nine Entertainment,...
Alan Kohler: What Indigenous Australians and Gazans both need are industries and jobs
If the companies that campaigned for the Voice to Parliament want to do something useful for Indigenous people they should move some...
Alan Kohler: Ozempic is making food and anti-snoring companies lose weight too
CSL shares fell 6.3 per cent one day last week and before that ResMed was down even more – 36 per cent...
Alan Kohler: Seduced by optimism, scuttled by reality – sadly, it’s the way of the world
Eighteen months ago, I wrote a column for The New Daily with the heading: “Optimists have failed us; pessimists, please report for...
Alan Kohler: The absence of strikes in Australia is not healthy
Serious question: Is society better off with strikes, or without them? Australia is now a society without strikes; it is bipartisan policy...
Alan Kohler: Campaign finance reforms advantage ALP, Coalition
There’s talk that Labor and the Coalition are close to agreeing on new laws to reform election campaign finances. The Special Minister...
Alan Kohler: Interest rate pundits hedge their bets
There is often something for everyone in a Reserve Bank statement announcing its interest rate decision, especially when the decision is to...