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Lucky for some: Australia’s per capita recession

Despite economic growth and rising profits, many Australians have experienced a decade of stagnant ...  
Why Angus Taylor’s migration cap doesn’t add up

The practical, legal and economic realities behind Labor, Coalition and One Nation migration ...  
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.  
Feeding the rich, poor fed to wolves. Well done Angus!

Perhaps it’s no surprise that Opposition Leader Angus Taylor would seek to jump on the orange ...  
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EDITORIAL: Feeding the rich, poor fed to wolves. Well done Angus!

Perhaps it’s no surprise that Opposition Leader Angus Taylor would seek to jump on the orange ...  
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 ...  
Federal Budget reveals Australia’s mounting digital technical debt

The Budget focuses on maintaining increasingly complex digital systems, managing cyber risk and ...  
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 ...  
Labor Government playing dicey politics with immigration management

The Government’s reluctance to confront mounting visa backlogs and migration pressures risks ...  
Four more things Australia can do to arrest house prices

Australia’s housing crisis is often blamed on tax incentives like negative gearing and the CGT ...  
Albanese’s springboard for even greater triumphs

Last week’s courageous budget could portend an era of substantial achievement.  
Breaking cycles of disadvantage: Australia versus global economic models

Breaking cycles of disadvantage is a test of a society’s commitment to fairness and human ...  
JEFF MCMULLEN:  Sleeping rough in the "Lucky Country"

To achieve any semblance of equality in Australia, we urgently need greater ambition, creative ...  
Why Australia needs a new competition policy revolution

As market concentration grows and reform stalls, Australia’s outdated competition system is ...  
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 ...  
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