Three sectors, one delivery bench
Three sectors, one delivery bench.
Costs, rates and US politics are all moving at once. Here’s what that means for defence, mining and infrastructure projects in WA, and why delivery leadership is the real bottleneck.
The Leader who answers to two places
Appointing Leaders for Overseas-Owned Australian Businesses
When the GM is in the Goldfields and the board is in Europe, the brief usually tells only half the story. Four reasons cross-border appointments go wrong, and five things that help.
Mining Outlook FY26-27
Australian Mining Outlook FY2026-27
Export earnings are heading for a record, yet mining productivity has fallen five years running. Our view of the year ahead: commodity by commodity, three scenarios, and where executive demand will emerge.
Gold Price Audit
The Gold Price Audit
A high gold price hides a lot. A falling one doesn’t. At around US$4,000 an ounce gold is still extraordinary, but the real change is what the price was quietly covering for.
AUKUS has the funding and tech. Do we have the people?
AUKUS Isn’t Short of Money or Technology. It’s Short of People to Lead It
The funding is committed and the technology exists. The harder constraint is leadership: people who can run programs of this scale, under this much scrutiny, across three countries.
Australia’s manufacturing ambition may be running ahead of its industrial reality.
Australia’s Manufacturing Ambition is Running Ahead of Its Industrial Reality
The policy intent and the funding are there. The skills, supply chains and experienced operators needed to deliver it are thinner than the ambition assumes.
Australia’s infrastructure problem isn’t funding. It’s the capacity to deliver.
Australia’s infrastructure problem isn’t funding. It’s the capacity to deliver.
Over half of Australia’s major transport projects run over budget, and rail is worst at 73%. The capital is committed. The leaders who can deliver it are getting harder to find.
Australia has the critical minerals. Building the projects is the hard part.
Australia has the critical minerals. Building the projects is the hard part.
Australia is marketing 78 critical minerals projects to the world, and most haven’t broken ground. The constraint now isn’t policy or capital. It’s the experienced leaders needed to build them.
Generation vs Transmission
The visible part of the energy transition is the solar and the turbines. The part that decides whether it works is the grid behind it, and that's where the cost blowouts are piling up.
