Great Western Highway closure heavily impacting freight

Executive Director of Ron Finemore Transport Ron Finemore joined us to discuss the impact of the closure is having on the Great Western Highway. 

Great Western Highway closed for three months over safety concerns

Minister for Roads and Regional Transport Jenny Aitchison joined 2GB Afternoons to provide an update on why the highway will remain closed for a further three months. 

Did the US break international law with their attack on Iran?

Since the start of the US-Iran conflict, international law experts and politicians have claimed the United States of America's actions were illegal.

What the US-Iran conflict has revealed about Australia's water infrastructure

Michael McLaren has warned Australia needs to invest heavily in water infrastructure as the ongoing conflict in the Middle East serves as a "timely reminder".

Michael McLaren's reflections as members of Iranian women soccer team are granted asylum

Michael McLaren has made some reflections after seven of the Iranian female soccer team were granted asylum by Immigration Minister Tony Burke.

'Laptop class' - AI and offshore labor under new WFH mandates

Economist Adam Creighton warns that legislating work-from-home rights may backfire by making Australian white-collar workers too expensive and easily replaceable by algorithms or cheaper overseas jurisdictions.

'Populist nonsense' - Australia’s 36-day fuel gamble exposed as Iran war ignites global oil crisis

Australia faces a dire economic reckoning as regional conflict and a blockaded Strait of Hormuz reveal the nation’s "unprepared and vulnerable" 36-day fuel stockpile, far short of international obligations. Michael McLaren says decades of "populist nonsense" and a blind faith in just-in-time suppl…

'Sovereign capacity - Australia’s only shield against a $130 billion ASX collapse and $117 oil

With the nation’s "diesel economy" paralysed and $130 billion wiped from the ledger, Andrew Hastie demands a pivot from political point-scoring to a strategic "war-footing" that secures domestic refining.

'Indefinite closure' - Great Western Highway shut as Convict Bridge crumbles

Minister Jenny Aitchison faces a "fragile" infrastructure crisis as the state’s primary East-West corridor remains closed indefinitely due to sudden pavement cracking and shifting substructures.

'Magic pudding' - Unions push for 5-weeks leave and 35-hour work weeks

Michael critiques the ACTU’s "yoga mat approach to economics," arguing that the push for a 35-hour work week and five weeks of annual leave ignores Australia’s decade-long productivity doldrums.