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Gen X backing billionaires to solve the problems those billionaires helped create

Billionaires rarely go into politics because of heartfelt concern for your rent, your food bill ...  
A universal basic income could rebuild social cohesion

Declining social cohesion and rising financial stress point to the need for a universal basic ...  
Was the Budget really unpopular? Plenty of reasons suggest ‘no’

There has been a lot of hand-wringing in the media and from a small army of vested interest groups ...  
Australia lags on scam victim reimbursement

While other countries have introduced stronger protections and reimbursement schemes for scam ...  
Retailers trying to get out of their obligations to accept cash under new laws

Multiple supermarkets and fuel retailers are trying to get out of their obligations to accept ...  
The glaring problems with Labor’s dreadful, appalling, terrible 2026 Budget

Few observers in Australia’s media have had a kind word for last month’s controversial Budg ...  
Australia now has best-ever economy and worst-ever reporters

Coverage of the recent Federal Budget proves standards of economic reporting are at an all-time ...  
The real assault on aspiration isn’t tax reform: It’s inequality

When aspiration pathways are blocked, the political rhetoric of aspiration becomes detached from ...  
The great Treasury fiction: Why public investment is rigged to fail

Treasury’s reliance on flawed market benchmarks is undermining long-term public investment.  
Facts in, garbage out: Why the RBA needs functional finance

As cost-of-living pressures mount, critics argue Australia’s inflation response is worsening the ...  
Indexing income tax scales — another bad idea from the Coalition

The Coalition’s plan to index income tax scales to inflation may sound fair on paper, but ...  
Functional finance: The cure for inflation without unemployment

An alternative economic model could tackle inflation through fiscal policy instead of interest ...  
JEFF MCMULLEN:  Sleeping rough in the "Lucky Country"

To achieve any semblance of equality in Australia, we urgently need greater ambition, creative ...  
Chalmers' fair go budget a fair bet to charm

It is the most ambitious Federal Budget the nation has seen for a couple of decades and the ...  
I owe, I owe

The working poor are not a statistic at the margins of the Australian economy. They are load-be ...  
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EDITORIAL: Chalmers' fair go budget a fair bet to charm

It is the most ambitious Federal Budget the nation has seen for a couple of decades and the ...  
Modern Money changes everything

Everything changes when governments admit that money does work the way Modern Monetary Theory says ...  
The failure of Reserve Bank independence

Central bank independence has entrenched an unaccountable system that prioritises financial sector ...  
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