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Tuesday, June 10, 2025

I have good news and bad news about your superannuation

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When the government wants to cut back the massive tax concessions the rich receive on their superannuation, the media is full of it for week...
Monday, June 9, 2025

If bulldusting about productivity was productive, we'd all be rich

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It seems the longer we wait for a sign that productivity has stopped flatlining, the more and the sillier the nonsense we have to listen to,...
Friday, June 6, 2025

Someone's doing the heavy lifting, and it's not the government

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By MILLIE MUROI, Economics Writer In the goldmine of numbers unearthed this week, we learned a lot of things. Among them: that gold diggers ...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

In one awful decision, Albanese reveals his do-nothing plan

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It didn’t take long for us to discover what a triumphantly re-elected Labor government would be like. Would Anthony Albanese stick to the pl...
Monday, June 2, 2025

Let's stop kidding ourselves. Taxes will have to go up

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Before the election, the business press was terribly concerned about the decade of budget deficits and ever-rising public debt the Albanese ...
Friday, May 30, 2025

Australia can't just let Trump do what he wants

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By MILLIE MUROI, Economics Writer Donald Trump doesn’t like taking no for an answer. So really it comes as no surprise that, within minutes ...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Don't let rich old men tell you the planned super tax is terribly bad

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Would you want Australia to become more like America? How on Earth did so many Yanks vote to reinstall a crazy, destructive leader such as M...
Monday, May 26, 2025

Why we need our economists to try a lot harder

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I noticed in The Psychologist magazine one of that profession’s old hands advising newbies to “think outside the box and question everythin...
Friday, May 23, 2025

Working less could be the answer to one of our biggest problems

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By MILLIE MUROI, Economics Writer Inflation has been the talk of the town for the past few years, but now that it’s paled enough for interes...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

After 50 years, we're back to the glory days of full employment

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I promise I’ll stop talking about the surprising election result if you let me make one last point. There was a hidden factor that helps exp...
Monday, May 19, 2025

Want greater productivity? Set wages to rise by 3.5 pc every year

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Stand by for yet more talk about productivity. With the election over and Labor more comfortably ensconced on the Treasury benches, Treasure...
Friday, May 16, 2025

The RBA is spooked by pay rises. It should relax

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By MILLIE MUROI, Economics Writer When the Reserve Bank meets next week, it will probably cut interest rates. But it will be some time befor...
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Whatever happened to the cost living we were so worried about?

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Talk about the dog that didn’t bark. Cast your mind back to the distant days of the election campaign, and you’ll dimly remember how often w...
Monday, May 12, 2025

Ross Garnaut: Prophet with a sunny view of our better future

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Economist Paul Krugman’s endlessly repeated maxim that “productivity isn’t everything but, in the long run, it’s almost everything” has delu...
Sunday, May 11, 2025

Game theory explains why the Liberals lost - and how they can win

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By MILLIE MUROI, Economics Writer Elections are one of the biggest – and real-life – displays of strategic thinking. There are winners and l...

The Liberals won't win without more women and fewer oldies

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If the Liberals have any sense, they won’t waste too much time blaming their shocking election result on Peter Dutton, Donald Trump, Cyclone...