AFR Interviews features in-depth conversations with Australia’s most influential and powerful leaders across business, finance and politics. The best journalists from The Australian Financial Review reveal how Australia’s key decision-makers grapple with challenges and embrace industry-defining opportunities.
Victorian political correspondent Sumeyya Ilanbey interviews Victorian Premier Ben Carroll about key state issues like work from home laws and crime rates.
5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
AFR Interviews: Jess Wilson
Victorian political correspondent Sumeyya Ilanbey interviews Victorian Liberal leader Jess Wilson about the state's debt, budget, and seizing political opportunities.
24 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
AFR Interviews: Simon Trott
Editor-in-chief James Chessell interviews Rio Tinto chief executive Simon Trott about navigating merger talks, AI growth, and global uncertainty.
5 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
AFR Interviews: Jack Zhang
Editor-in-chief James Chessell interviews Airwallex CEO Jack Zhang about early mistakes and a significant acquisition offer.
16 Jun 2026
AFR Interviews: Andrew Irvine
This week senior Chanticleer columnist James Thomson sits down with Andrew Irvine, the chief executive of National Australia Bank.
The NAB boss gives his assessment of the government’s proposed changes to capital gains tax and negative gearing, and reveals the three things he believes Australia needs to do to remain prosperous over the next 50 years.
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8 Jun 2026
AFR Interviews: Richard Goyder
The Australian Financial Review's senior Chanticleer columnist, James Thomson, interviews Richard Goyder, chairman of Woodside Petroleum.
Goyder was chairman of Qantas throughout the pandemic during some of the most turbulent years for the airline and has just finished up as chairman of the AFL commission.
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31 May 2026
AFR Interviews: Allegra Spender
The Australian Financial Review editor Cosima Marriner interviews independent MP for Wentworth, Allegra Spender, who was instrumental in the push for tax reform before the budget.
Recently, she’s been talking to her fellow teal MPs about moving towards a party-like structure.
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25 May 2026
AFR Interviews: Jim Chalmers
The Australian Financial Review's political editor, Phillip Coorey, interviews Treasurer Jim Chalmers after having delivered the most significant budget in more than a decade.
The government's proposed tax changes have triggered debate about how they could reshape investment, innovation and wealth-building in this country.
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Inside a recent episode
AFR Interviews: Ben Carroll
Published 12 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Can you really distance yourself from those two leaders when you served as Minister to one and Deputy to the other? Oh, I certainly can because I'm taking the government in a new direction as a new Premier. I've made it very clear the way we treat Victorians' taxpayers' dollars will be treated with respect. […]
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