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Federal Budget reveals Australia’s mounting digital technical debt

The Budget focuses on maintaining increasingly complex digital systems, managing cyber risk and ...  
Indexing income tax scales — another bad idea from the Coalition

The Coalition’s plan to index income tax scales to inflation may sound fair on paper, but ...  
Functional finance: The cure for inflation without unemployment

An alternative economic model could tackle inflation through fiscal policy instead of interest ...  
Labor Government playing dicey politics with immigration management

The Government’s reluctance to confront mounting visa backlogs and migration pressures risks ...  
Four more things Australia can do to arrest house prices

Australia’s housing crisis is often blamed on tax incentives like negative gearing and the CGT ...  
Albanese’s springboard for even greater triumphs

Last week’s courageous budget could portend an era of substantial achievement.  
Breaking cycles of disadvantage: Australia versus global economic models

Breaking cycles of disadvantage is a test of a society’s commitment to fairness and human ...  
JEFF MCMULLEN:  Sleeping rough in the "Lucky Country"

To achieve any semblance of equality in Australia, we urgently need greater ambition, creative ...  
Why Australia needs a new competition policy revolution

As market concentration grows and reform stalls, Australia’s outdated competition system is ...  
Chalmers' fair go budget a fair bet to charm

It is the most ambitious Federal Budget the nation has seen for a couple of decades and the ...  
I owe, I owe

The working poor are not a statistic at the margins of the Australian economy. They are load-be ...  
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EDITORIAL: Chalmers' fair go budget a fair bet to charm

It is the most ambitious Federal Budget the nation has seen for a couple of decades and the ...  
One against six in Labor’s battle for reform

As Labor prepares major housing and tax reforms, it must once again battle a powerful alliance of ...  
Modern Money changes everything

Everything changes when governments admit that money does work the way Modern Monetary Theory says ...  
The richer Australians get, the sadder they become, data shows

While the economy recorded its best year ever in 2025, life dissatisfaction hit a new low.  
Class is the missing link in Australia’s generational inequality crisis

Australia’s housing crisis isn’t just a clash between generations, but a deepening class ...  
We trade with Asia yet our strategic priorities do not reflect it

Australia’s economic reality is anchored in Asia, but its strategic imagination is not keeping ...  
Energy and sovereignty will decide Australia's AI future, not algorithms

The AI debate has moved beyond algorithms & applications; it's now about infrastructure & energy ...  
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