Chanticleer

Chanticleer

Australia's most prestigious business column is now a podcast. Chanticleer is a weekly news breakdown of all things business, finance and markets. Every Friday, Australian Financial Review columnists James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald go behind the doors of corporate Australia to give you their unvarnished analysis.

Episodes

August 29, 2025 39 mins

This week on the Chanticleer podcast, James & Anthony ask why the business community hates the great state of Victoria, hand out their awards for the best and worst of profit season and take you inside ANZ’s great email job cut scandal. 

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This week on the Chanticleer podcast, James & Anthony look at what - if anything - was achieved at the Treasurer’s big economic reform roundtable in Canberra this week, bring you the most disappointing result of results season, and look ahead to the biggest few days for markets. 

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This week, James & Anthony bring you the highlights from a whopper few days of company results, discuss why Michele Bullock seemed a bit crabby on RBA rates day, and debate whether CEOs should get paid double time for working on Christmas day. 

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This week James & Anthony explain why the new work from home debate hides a bigger battle between bosses and workers, they ask why the government is using your money to buy into a struggling lithium miner and go inside the market's fat-fingered moment.

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This week James & Anthony reveal why Australia's AI phony war is officially over, look at the productivity roadmap big business is starting to get behind, and explain why illegal tobacco has become such a drag for some of our biggest retailers.

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This week on the Chanticleer podcast, James & Anthony look at the mini-meltdown at Macquarie, the millionaires factory, examine the pitched battles over who’s going to manage your money, and ask why Chinese cars are taking over the Australian market.

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This week on the Chanticleer podcast, James & Cosima ask what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese got from his big China trip, examine Matt Comyn’s blueprint to fix Australia and look at why the boss of National Australia Bank is under such heavy scrutiny.

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This week on the Chanticleer podcast, Anthony & Joyce look at what happens when you shake up the RBA, sink their teeth into Joyce’s favourite ASX-listed company Macquarie, and catch up on the latest from Donald Trump – and there is a bit

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This week on the Chanticleer podcast, James & Anthony examine what your super fund did for you last year, deliver a corporate mess with the lot at Domino’s Pizza, and welcome another rising star to the ASX. 

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This week on the Chanticleer podcast, James & Anthony relive what was an extraordinary day for Australia’s sharemarket on Tuesday, sort through the 2025 financial year’s winners and losers and take an old chestnut of a question about the Australian housing market. 

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This week on the Chanticleer podcast, James and Anthony try to make sense of the conflict between Israel and Iran, explain why the biggest cash takeover in Australian history is a massive test for Jim Chalmers and ask - do our big CEOs ever miss out on a bonus? 

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This week on the Chanticleer podcast, James & Anthony discuss the fresh record high for the ASX by answering your 10 burning questions about markets, look at how Australia’s IVF sector was plunged into crisis and extract the lesson from markets from the LA Riots

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This week on the Chanticleer podcast, James & Anthony try to explain what’s coming for Australia from the AI revolution, reveal the biggest winners from the float of Virgin Australia, and you’ll never guess…Trump and Musk’s bromance is over.

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This week, James and Anthony reveal what the new strategy of one Australia’s biggest companies tells us about the coming AI boom, take you inside the biggest corporate collapse since the pandemic and explain the new theory moving the market - the TACO theory.

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This week, James and Anthony discuss Andrew Forrest's concerns about Australia's iron ore industry, ask what comes next after the RBA’s latest interest rate cut, and take you inside the spicy battle over one of the country's busiest airports.

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This week on the Chanticleer podcast, James & Anthony look at Donald Trump’s great tariff u-turn, meet the newest member of private equity’s hall of shame, and examine trouble at Macquarie, better known as the Millionaires Factory.

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This week on the Chanticleer podcast, James & Anthony ask whether the big banks are too safe for their own good, and the good of the country. They reveal what the big dogs  are really talking about inside the year's biggest investment conference and look at the business sector's reaction to the election.

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This week on the Chanticleer podcast, James & Anthony preview Saturday’s election - and it’s likely aftermath - through the eyes of investors, examine the $27b deal that tells you plenty about the state of the world, and explain how cheap cardboard toys gave Woolies hope in the supermarket wars.

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This week on the Chanticleer podcast, James and Jonathan Shapiro ask why gold has become the world’s hottest investment, try to solve the mystery that’s had the entire ASX talking, and with voting open in the federal election, give their verdict on the Treasurer’s debate. 

To ask a question, email chanticleer@afr.com

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This week on the Chanticleer podcast, James & Anthony look at what comes next in the great Trump saga, pick out the five corporate trends shaping business in 2025 and discuss why Labor and Liberal’s housing policies landed like a brick.


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