Jennifer Hewett

Online shopping? Pandemic? Peter Allen says the millions in lockdown are still itching to get back to Westfield shopping centres and the best is yet to come for retailers and landlords alike.

Any return to the office is still likely to allow more people to work from home at least a few days a week as part of the new fashion for hybrid working.

More than any other country Australia relies on personal and company income tax to raise government revenue. This is unlikely to change no matter who wins in May.

ESG has become part of the corporate mainstream in the last few years but most Australians don’t really understand the term.

The party’s disastrous financial and political decline in Western Australia is just the most extreme example of its state-by-state fall from political grace.

You have to be quick to secure a booking 30 days ahead at Burnt Ends in Singapore, where Dave Pynt has foodies fired up over his wizardry cooking on wood.

Peter Allen says Westfield’s continued success shows the importance of physical retail stores – even in a world that went so heavily online during COVID. But shopping habits are changing dramatically in other ways.

The jobs summit has promoted the need for greater support for women to help meet the challenges of a modern economy and a dramatically altered culture.

Former treasurer Paul Keating sees a savings pool of “massive” excess in Australia and says we will have to start exporting capital in the same way that China does.

The big jump in profit won’t help Labor persuade the Greens that Australia can’t afford to ban any new coal or gas developments.