The Economic Policy Abbott Can't Grasp
Last week Tony Abbott released an e-book "A Stronger Australia", a collection of what he…More
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When The Poor Vote Conservative
People of my generation remember the 1960s for a wave of protest in the USA…More
Do We Have Inflation Licked?
The September quarter Consumer Price Index was the first official measure of household price inflation…More
A Surplus? That's The Least Of Our Worries
Economic policy in Australia is bound by two obsessions. One is to return the Commonwealth…More
The Cost of Privatisation
Which country has higher public debt — Spain or Germany? The answer is Germany, with…More
Why Are We Living Beyond Our Means?
Last Wednesday night on the ABC’s 7.30 Report, David Murray, former Chair of the Future…More
The Sacred Status Of Private Health
Some bad ideas, such as building water desalination plants and privatising electricity retailing, just won’t…More
We Have A Tax Problem, Not A Debt Problem
Last week there was something resembling a clearing sale at the Bureau of Statistics. On…More
PM's Taskforce Gives Manufacturing The Thumbs Up
On Thursday last week, while most media attention was on asylum-seekers — boat arrivals and…More
Can We Be Any More Productive?
"Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything", said Paul Krugman, …More