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Monday, July 21, 2025

How Chalmers can fix the budget despite stagnant productivity

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As if Treasurer Jim Chalmers didn’t have a big enough problem trying to improve the economy’s productivity, we now know Treasury has private...
Friday, July 18, 2025

Like ChatGPT, we need clear goals and rules - on the environment

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By MILLIE MUROI, Economics Writer If there’s one thing that ChatGPT has taught us, it’s that what we get from it is heavily dependent on the...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Trump wants us to spend a bomb on defence. Why exactly?

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While I was on holiday, I had a kind of nightmare: suddenly, every rich country in the world – including us – is vowing to spend many billio...
Monday, July 14, 2025

If the RBA is muddled on interest rates, we'll suffer from its fumbling

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Taken in isolation, the decision last week by the Reserve Bank’s new interest-rate setting committee to defy all expectations and delay a cu...
Friday, July 11, 2025

We should be paying more for our energy. Here's why

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By MILLIE MUROI, Economics Writer Very few people would agree if I were to say our energy bills should be higher. But what if I told you you...
Friday, July 4, 2025

How Canberra's favourite book might help my hunt for a first home

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By MILLIE MUROI, Economics Writer Anyone who has rented (or knows a renter) knows the woes of living on someone else’s terms: unresponsive l...
Friday, June 27, 2025

We like to hate big businesses but they get one thing right

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By MILLIE MUROI, Economics Writer There’s little in our daily lives that drives us up the wall like our supermarkets, airlines and banks. Ju...
Friday, June 20, 2025

Oil prices have jumped. Do you need to run to the petrol station?

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By MILLIE MUROI, Economics Writer Despite our concerted attempts to unstick ourselves from the stuff, oil is still a fossil fuel we can’t fu...
Friday, June 13, 2025

The government can print money, so why can't it keep borrowing

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By MILLIE MUROI, Economics Writer Every few years, the US government goes into crisis-mode, and not just because of a certain unpredictable ...
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...