Alan Kohler

On The Money Café this week, Alan Kohler and Stephen Mayne celebrate the start of the new financial year, run through the biggest stories of FY26, the latest house price data, the war in Iran, and the week's political news, before answering questions on AI, childcare, the tax system, and much more. Find out more at Eureka Report.

The war between Iran, the US and Israel has forced the world to confront just how fragile energy supply still is.

Sun 5 Jul 2026 at 8:42pm If you spent your time on the websites of the Bureau of Statistics, the Reserve Bank (RBA) and the ASX, you'd think things were going fine.

With the 50 per cent fuel excise cut now over, it's a good time to take stock of where the energy crisis stands - from the price of Brent crude, to the still-fragile movement of ships through the Strait of Hormuz.

Alan Kohler sits down with Dennison Hambling, the Managing Director of Intelligent Monitoring Group Ltd, to discuss the acquisition of ADT's UK business and how AI-monitored cameras are changing home security. Find out more at Eureka Report.

Justin Wolfers has spent 25 years in the United States watching the world's biggest economy from close range - and from the useful distance of an Australian accent that still cuts through the absurdity.

Alan Kohler's Weekend Briefing tackles the latest in the ongoing Iran-US situation, a deep detail of the latest in AI's value and China's role, Australia's spectator position, and much much more!. Find out more at Eureka Report.

Sun 12 Jul 2026 at 8:49pm When it comes to AI, Australia is a spectator at a UFC cage fight between the United States and China, except the

On The Money Café this week, Alan Kohler and Stephen Mayne unpack the overnight action on Wall Street, rising tensions in the Strait of Hormuz and the fallout from last week's Telstra outage, take a look at the renewable energy sector and field questions on AI and data centres, share registries, the 'inertia tax' and much more. Find out more at Eureka Report.

Artificial intelligence is moving fast. Can the Australian government keep up?Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s much-anticipated speech at Sydney University this week detailed what he says makes Australia uniquely attractive to AI investment and outlined the need for a national framework to take advantage of the opportunities AI affords, while ensuring standards and safeguards are put in place.Meanwhile, a group of international economists and tech leaders released an open letter, ‘We Must Act Now,’ warning that advanced AI could shake-up the economy more than the Industrial Revolution - and over a much shorter timeframe.Treasurer Jim Chalmers returns to That’s Business to dig into what the government is proposing with AI, as well as other pressing questions about the Australian economy. Alan gets the Treasurer’s take on AI safety and sovereignty, the responsibilities of data centres, and the issue of copyright and creatives - who gets paid, and how? Alan also asks the Treasurer about his meeting with Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, who visited Australia earlier this year.Then there’s a bit of other stuff to catch up on as well: tax, housing, migration, and the ever-present issue of productivity. As the Treasurer prepares to publish the intergenerational report (IGR) later this year, how will this once-in-a-generation technology of artificial intelligence change Australian lives?Federal Treasurer Dr. Jim Chalmers joins Alan Kohler to unpack it all on That's Business with Alan Kohler.Got a burning business question?Send a short voice recording to the ABC Business Daily team at [email protected]