A question of ethics: UniSuper's investments in fossil fuels

15 Mar 2020 | George Grundy unpacks UniSuper's significant investments in coal and fossil fuels, questioning ...  

Dear ScoMo: KFC employs more Australians than thermal coal sector

12 Feb 2020 | Australia's protection of the coal mining industry doesn't add up from an evidence and economics ...  

Donating to those impacted by Australian bushfires

13 Jan 2020 | Corinna Elaine, a 2013 Dunalley bushfire victim, discusses how to best support traumatised fire ...  

#4 TOP STORY OF 2019: Australia's very weak economy makes global headlines

31 Dec 2019 | Alan Austin's economics pieces are immensely popular amongst readers — probably because he ...  

The corporations making big money, paying no tax and laughing at us

17 Dec 2019 | The latest ATO annual transparency report reveals one-third of large companies are paying zero ...  

Government report reveals a lagging economy

11 Dec 2019 | Last Wednesday’s release of the national accounts for the September quarter confirmed what we ...  

Visa applications from China and Malaysia surge due to 'poor policy'

2 Dec 2019 | The Coalition Government says the surge in asylum applications from Chinese and Malaysian citizens ...  

Does the latest Westpac challenge really shock?

25 Nov 2019 | Despite the Royal Commission, Westpac operates with a degree of brazen immunity and it's hard to ...  

Attacks and defiance plague progress on wages and jobs

20 Nov 2019 | Rather than working to fix the country's wage growth problem, politicians have instead resorted to ...  

The banking system putting pressure on consumers

27 Oct 2019 | New laws are designed to trap us in a web of digital debt, writes Simon Cole.  

Mathias Cormann, Minister for Financial Fudges

16 Sep 2019 | Several assertions repeated regularly by the Finance Minister do not stand up to scrutiny.  

Real estate collapse: Purplebricks' road to ruin

4 Sep 2019 | Purplebricks' short stay in the Australian market didn't go well, reports Tarric Brooker.  

Retailers also thrown on the Coalition’s scrapheap

5 Aug 2019 | Along with pensioners, Newstart recipients and low-income earners, the Morrison Government has now ...  

NBN sale ruled out — taxpayers to pay instead

23 Jul 2019 | It seems the NBN will not be sold, for now, but it remains a political football, which can be ...  

Josh Frydenberg goes full Trump on the Reserve Bank

19 Jul 2019 | Josh Frydenberg roped RBA Governor Phillip Lowe into belting out a rendition of ‘Everything is ...  

The Coalition now serves foreign corporations first and foremost

8 Jul 2019 | The accumulation of evidence that the Liberal and National parties work for foreign interests is ...  

Lies, damned lies and tax cuts statistics

25 Jun 2019 | Former Head of Finance Michael Keating debunks an SMH article that suggests the Morrison Gove ...