Finance
Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce: Hypocrisy is thy name

Parliamentary expenses show extraordinary waste from anti-waste campaigners Pauline Hanson and ...  
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 ...  
Truths about price rises they don’t want you to know

As inflation in Australia is steadily easing, misinformation is relentlessly worsening.  
Billionaire BS and the great wealth lie

The myth that billionaires earn their fortunes through hard work is a convenient fiction that ...  
Artificial inequality in the age of AI

AI is accelerating a divide that decades of economic policy and asset inflation have already ...  
The business investment boom will spark a surge in productivity

Strong business investment is laying the foundations for higher productivity, stronger growth and ...  
Why inequality survives democratic politics

Australians demanding radical political change may defend the economic arrangements causing their ...  
Investors applaud resilient economy while newsrooms refuse to report it

Encouraging information on jobs and wealth has been greeted with a range of interpretations.  
Rushy Lagoon sale: Tasmania's largest farm and the carbon math that doesn't add up

Here's the pitch: plant enough trees & somewhere a coal-fired power station, a gas plant, or an i ...  
Market mysticism and the misinformation that dudded Australia

Australia didn't just embrace market economics; it embraced the myth that efficiency alone coul ...  
AI resilience is the next step after the Government's AI regulatory framework

Australia is regulating AI. But who is planning for AI resilience?  
Australia's export slump quietly dragging down the economy

Australian exports have turned from being a significant positive for economic growth and rising ...  
The deal that could balance the government's books as well as our own

A social new deal that can balance the government's books as well as our own, eliminating aust ...  
The time is ripe for a universal basic income

A universal basic income frees people from the fear of falling into poverty, stabilises labour ...  
Australia’s newsrooms continue to suppress vital information

Australia is enjoying a rare era of sustained economic calm and stability, which the mainstream ...  
Gen X backing billionaires to solve the problems those billionaires helped create

Billionaires rarely go into politics because of heartfelt concern for your rent, your food bill ...  
A universal basic income could rebuild social cohesion

Declining social cohesion and rising financial stress point to the need for a universal basic ...  

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