Economics
The economic debate that Treasurer Chalmers has won

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is blaming successive interest rate rises for the lack of economic growth ...  
Latest snapshot of Albo’s economy defies mainstream media negativity

The national accounts for the June quarter do not support the popular narrative of a severe cost ...  
Chalmers on track to join Keating and Swan as world’s best treasurer

The latest economic news confirms the Albanese Government is responding to uncertain times rema ...  
RBA deputy governor hits a few prophets for six

An insightful speech by the RBA's deputy governor, intended as a commentary on economic uncerta ...  
Jim Chalmers gets the boffins to measure what really matters

The Bureau of Statistics is broadening its research beyond population, jobs and inflation into ...  
Press Council must do vastly better or be replaced

Australia’s official media watchdog is failing to stem the daily flow of destructive falsehoo ...  
Government widely misses net migration target

New data released by the Bureau of Statistics has revealed that net migration numbers have dras ...  
The RBA says one thing, its pictures and graphs say another

Stephen Koukoulas examines the recent RBA assessment of the economy as "running a bit hot" and ...  
America's gathering storm: The consequences of a Trump dictatorship

A second Trump Administration would have dire consequences politically, socially and economically ...  
Some Australian families are struggling, but fewer than ever before

Consumer spending data, analysed correctly, shows the economy is nowhere near as bad as news ...  
Olympic Games: Perennially costly, always over budget

Amid all the spectacle and pageantry of the Olympic Games lies budget blow-outs, infrastructure ...  
Interest rate cuts around the world — Australia should join the gang

There’s a flight of fancy with some Australian economists and commentators that the Reserve Bank ...  
Facts and figures confirm Murdoch’s minions are continually lying to you

News Corp in Australia systematically distorts the ‘news’ it publishes, this time on bankru ...  
Australia's 2030 renewable energy targets can still be met

Evidence has spurred doubts about the Government reaching its 2030 renewable energy target, but ...  
Trump's immigration policies a potential human rights violation

Donald Trump's immigration policies could send the U.S. down a path of mass deportations, tent ...  
Government struggling to hit net migration target

The Albanese Government has been too slow in reversing the Coalition's migration policy settings ...  
Labor sitting pretty to win 2025 Election

Having rescued the economy from damage done by the Coalition and stabilising government debt, the ...  
Good global citizenship benefits everyone, especially the good global citizen

After two years of partnering with developing countries, Australians are all much better off.  
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