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CBA’s record profit, the AI talent race and battles over copyright dominated this week's coverage. We discussed them all, and more, during On The Call, our new weekly live event.
There’s something mildly amusing about next week’s scheduling clash for the ages, as Labor’s eagerly anticipated Economic Reform Roundtable at Parliament House coincides with the heaviest days so far in earnings season.
While executive teams from some of the market’s biggest names — BHP, CSL and Woodside among them — will be in front of investors and the media selling their annual results, other members of Australia’s business elite will be in Canberra alongside Treasurer Jim Chalmers, attempting to chart a course for the nation’s economic future.
What ultimately comes from the event remains to be seen, but the invite list, which features Commonwealth Bank’s Matt Comyn, Atlassian co-founder and Tech Council president Scott Farquhar, and Macquarie’s Shemara Wikramanayake, among others, bodes well for a meaningful outcome.
This week brought a clearer sense of the contours of Australia’s economic debate as we dip our toes into a new technological epoch which could be defined by generative artificial intelligence.
