Talking Business with Leon Gettler

Social unrest: Aussie teens jump off Instagram

 News Corp Australia posts a whopping $60.7m loss as pandemic takes toll on media

Federal election in Australia likely to be held in May 2019 due to the budget in April

Every Australian wants an EV but cannot afford the cost! Scott Morrison spruiks electric vehicles – but rules out subsidies and an end-date for petrol cars

Kmart and Bunnings parent company Wesfarmers snaps up Priceline and Soul Pattinson 

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Electric vehicle charging infrastructure has been elevated by the Morrison government as a key  net zero “enabling technology”, two-and-a-half years after the Prime Minister mocked EVs as incapable of towing trailers, boats or reaching a family’s favourite camping spot.

This week’s UN climate summit in Glasgow is helping put a rocket under the global market for carbon credits, which have surged to record levels.

Global ready-to-assemble furniture vendor IKEA has installed four chargers for electric vehicles at each of its outlets in NSW and Victoria.

Andrew Forrest strikes deal with billionaire Bamford family to become biggest supplier of renewable hydrogen in UK, with focus on heavy transport.

Penfolds has released its most expensive ever bottle of wine - a five-vintage blend that retails for a wallet-scorching $3500

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The Morrison government will spend nearly $13 million promoting Australia's record on climate change, including increased uptake of renewables in Australia driven mostly by policies his government tried to destroy.

Scott Morrison unveils Australia 2050 net zero emissions plan with no detail and no modelling

Australia Post, NBN pay out $300 million in bonuses during COVID. How much is that in Cartier watches?

Crown Melbourne set to keep casino licence despite 'disgraceful' conduct

Australian taxpayers to fork out US$1.33bn as part of Telstra US$1.6bn purchase of Pacific telco Digicel. Big move to keep China out of key Pacific state comms networks.

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OECD downgrades its outlook for Australian living standards over the next 40 years, forecasting per capita GDP of just 0.9% between 2018 and 2030.

Australian Retailers’ Association chief Paul Zahra said Victorian retailers lost $1 billion in trade per week during the lockdown and 25 to 50% of Melbourne small CBD retailers may have closed.

Three global investor groups worth more than $US46 trillion ($62 trillion) have labelled Australia one of the least attractive destinations for green investment, alongside Saudi Arabia and Russia.

Economists and markets disagree with the Reserve Bank of Australia’s firm stance that the cash rate won’t rise before 2024. They say surging prices in housing and energy will bring sustainable inflation back to its targeted band well before then.

Rio Tinto was “at best” incompetent and at worst deliberately deceived traditional owners over plans to blast Juukan Gorge, according to the parliamentary inquiry

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I’ll be talking to Tom Cornell, the Head of Assessments (APAC) at HireVue about how Aussies can prepare for The Great Resignation where employees are moving away from jobs where they feel unappreciated and are instead moving toward new priorities and goals, from more money to greater control over their time in the COVID-era. And I’ll be talking to economist Saul Eslake about whether Sydney’s re-opening will have an economic impact.

The global economic recovery is losing steam as a coronavirus resurgence and supply chain disruptions hinder progress, the IMF warned.

Despite Sydney re-opening, Goldman Sachs cites many reasons to cut its economic forecasts. One is the "longer lasting virus drag on virus-sensitive consumer services." In other words, people don't feel safe.

Australian researchers are trialling a smartwatch app that can monitor a worker’s vitals and tell them if it’s OK to go to work or if they should stay home and potentially get a COVID-19 test.

 COVID-19 has accelerated the death of cheques and ATM withdrawals as pandemic restrictions change the way we pay for our goods and services

BHP says Australia can’t ignore nuclear in the race to net zero

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I’ll be talking to Justin Hanka, a director at Shape Capital, the company behind Mindbio Therapeutics an exciting Melbourne business doing pioneering work on psychedelic LSD microdosing research. And I’ll be talking to CommSec Chief economist Craig James about market trends in the week ahead.

Monday's Facebook, WhatsApp & Instagram outage could have wiped nearly $US7 billion from Zuckerberg's personal wealth.

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I’ll be talking to Alistair Leathwood, chief commercial officer for IRI, a world leading big data analytics business that works with many of the world's household brands - food and grocery, liquor, petrol and convenience, pharmacy - in Australia. We will talk about how the health and wellness sector has performed during COVID and how shoppers have responded. And I’ll be talking to economist Sarah Hunter from BIS Oxford Economics

 Dr. Doom Nouriel Roubini turns Dr. Realist warning about global 'debt trap'

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First, I’ll be talking to Dhruv Kohli, Vice President of Growth and Strategy at Geezy Go, Australia's first digital supermarket. And I’ll be talking to Indeed economist Callam Pickering about the latest unemployment figures

France wants to punish Australia by delaying trade deal talks

Iron ore fall hits stock markets

EverGrande s buckling under the weight of more than $300 billion in debt. Is crashing the markets! They are China's "Lehman Brothers"

Christian Porter’s resignation from the Industry portfolio has been met with criticism and frustration across the Australian technology sector, which will now be working with its eighth minister in as many years.

About $6.2 billion in JobKeeper wage subsidies were paid to businesses with more than $10 million in turnover that did not experience a minimum 30% fall in turnover in the first six months of the scheme

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I’ll be talking to Joseph Vartuli, CreditorWatch's CTO connecting over 50,000 Australian businesses with sophisticated credit risk management tools to navigate the economic turbulence of 2021, by assessing the ability of their creditors to pay what they owe. 

And I’ll be talking to IFM Investors economist Alex Joiner about the state of the economy.

Australia’s most important economic institution is the RBA. The OECD says it’s time to look under bonnet to address the central bank’s failure to meet key economic targets in recent years and deal with long-term risks posed by the pandemic.

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I’ll be talking to Karen Vivarelli, successful local business woman and virtual assistant, who is coaching others on how to thrive working for yourself at home, and who has been named a finalist for the 2021 AusMumpreneur Awards.

And I’ll be talking to economist Saul Eslake about how Australia will fare in this recession.

News Corp's new push for net-zero by 2050 isn't a departure from their war against climate change. It’s just a 2 week campaign excluding The Australian.

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