ROSS GITTINS
ECONOMICS EDITOR, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
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Thursday, June 10, 2021
THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
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Aurora College Economics HSC Study Day, Sydney Every year there’s some event in the news that’s relevant to your study of the global economy...
Wednesday, June 9, 2021
My new hero, Mathias Cormann, now valiant for truth
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I find it hugely encouraging. Don’t know if you’ve heard the glad tidings but, on his road to Damascus – or, in this case, Paris – our own M...
Monday, June 7, 2021
Morrison needs the guts to save business (and the unions) from folly
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Talk about don’t mention the war. The great and good – who miss jetting off overseas several times a year – keep telling us the economy won’...
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Smaller Government is dogging our efforts to beat the pandemic
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It surprises me that, though the nation’s been watching anxiously for more than a year as our politicians struggle with the repeated failure...
Sunday, May 30, 2021
Top economists think much further ahead than Morrison & Co
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If Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg are looking for ideas about what more they could be doing to secure our economic future – after all, t...
Friday, May 28, 2021
Reform of “human services” the triumph of hope over experience
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Those leftie academics who keep accusing Scott Morrison and his government of being “neo-liberal” aren’t keeping up. This government’s neo-l...
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Big spending on aged care not right to fix the problem
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Budgets come and, all too soon, budgets go. A big deal in the latest one was the government’s response to the royal commission’s report on t...
Monday, May 24, 2021
Key reform needed to fix debt and deficit: ditch stage 3 tax cut
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Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg won’t admit it. But most economists agree that at the right time, the government should take measures to ...
Friday, May 21, 2021
Treasury boss confident big government debt is manageable
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Whether they realise it or not – probably not – the people up in arms about the size of the federal public debt and criticising Scott Morris...
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Don't believe what lightweights tell you about debit and deficit
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If you’ve gained the impression that in their pre-election budget Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg have gone on a wild, vote-buying cash s...
Monday, May 17, 2021
Budget shock: Morrison hit over the head by a paradigm
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The media missed the big story in last week’s budget. They were present to observe a rare event – a shift in the economic management paradig...
Friday, May 14, 2021
The new normal: much more reliance on government spending
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What this week’s budget proves is that fiscal (budgetary) stimulus really works, something many economists had come to doubt over the four d...
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
This budget couldabeen a lot better than it is
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This is the lick-and-a-promise budget. The budget that proves it is possible to be half pregnant. Which makes it the couldabeen budget. Sco...
Monday, May 10, 2021
Years of neglect won't make it easy to get wages up
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In Tuesday night’s budget, it will be important to note its assumptions about when our international borders will be back to functioning nor...
Friday, May 7, 2021
Our closed borders have turbo-charged the economy's recovery
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The economy’s rebound from the lockdowns of last year has been truly remarkable – far better than anyone dared to hope. Even so, it’s not qu...
Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Politics and economics have aligned to permit a ripper budget
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Sometimes I think the smartest thing a nation can do to improve its economic fortunes is elect a leader who’s lucky. The miracle-working Sco...
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