Economics
Neo-Liberal comic economics with Dave Hughes

Previously a comedian, Dave Hughes has become a self-professed corruption crusader and economics ...  
Japan’s yen crisis could hit Australian households next

Japan’s yen crisis could expose Australia to rising borrowing costs, a weaker dollar and a fresh ...  
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EDITORIAL: Neo-Liberal comic economics with Dave Hughes

Widely reported by Australia’s mainstream media, Melbourne radio host and property investor Dave ...  
Canberra bets against China while banking on its trade

Australia is arming against China while remaining economically dependent on the very power it is ...  
Real wage increases ensure living standards are rising

Evidence keeps piling up, showing Australians are enjoying sustained expansion of wealth and ...  
Business pushes trickle-down myth then blames government for its inevitable failure

Historic economic growth and productivity gains have largely failed to translate into broadly ...  
Tony Burke's immigration package must deliver the PM's net migration commitments and more

The Government is looking for ways to address the size of these unsustainable numbers, but with ...  
Australia needs AI skills — not just more data centres

Data-centre approvals should reflect demonstrable demand, energy availability and rapidly changing ...  
Why wealth matters and why Australia is a world leader

Australia’s high and relatively evenly distributed wealth underpins living standards and leaves ...  
Flailing newsrooms stymied by household luxury spending splurge

Multiple reports from the statutory authorities confirm living standards for all Australians are ...  
Obscene wealth: Money and political power accumulated by a minuscule few

The average billionaire generates around one million times more carbon emissions than the average ...  
Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce: Hypocrisy is thy name

Parliamentary expenses show extraordinary waste from anti-waste campaigners Pauline Hanson and ...  
Forty-three years after Hawke, Australia needs a new economic debate

More than four decades after the Hawke-Keating Accord reshaped Australia's economy, it's time for ...  
Negative gearing reforms expose a new housing trap

Negative gearing reforms may boost new housing, but also lock up the established homes first home ...  
Truths about price rises they don’t want you to know

As inflation in Australia is steadily easing, misinformation is relentlessly worsening.  
Opposites attract: Pauline Hanson and Gina Rinehart's paradoxical relationship

What’s behind the alliance between Pauline Hanson and Gina Rinehart?  
A universal public housing system for a divided Australia

A universal public housing system could turn redistribution from an abstract promise into visible ...  
Billionaire BS and the great wealth lie

The myth that billionaires earn their fortunes through hard work is a convenient fiction that ...  
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