- Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Monash University
South Australia’s recent blackout raised questions about the role of wind energy in Australia’s electricity network.
Evidence suggests our foreign investment policy has changed over time, but to what end?
Scott Morrison and Chris Bowen kept to their lines, but both ignored Australia’s most compelling economic issue.
Treasurer Scott Morrison’s reason for rejecting the Chinese bid offers a radically different definition of ‘national interest’ but doesn’t say much about how foreign interests are defined.
Boris Nemtsov’s warning about the festering bureaucratic corruption under Putin made him powerful enemies.
When Russia announced counter-sanctions against the European Union, USA, Canada and Australia banning imports of food items from those countries, it was clear there would be imminent consequences. But…
G20 finance ministers and central bank governors have set themselves a formidable task in accelerating growth and creating millions of new jobs in order to add 2% to world economic growth over the next…
“We will be getting more expensive kids” writes Professor Davidson, and this is absolutely right. Furthermore, not just every additional child supported under the proposed new scheme will be more expensive…
I do agree with Professor Mark Crosby and many other commentators that a fiscal “northern zone” is a bad idea. First, tropical Australia is divided across two states and a territory. Do we need to discriminate…
As expected, the debate between the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition on Sunday night concentrated on the economy. I would have thought the televised discussion would help me, an Australian…
It is not the first time in Australia’s economic history that a prevalent sector reaches its peak and gives way to a rapidly developing new one. However, while the mining and education sectors have apparently…
Property pundits are hoping the Reserve Bank of Australia’s latest cut to interest rates will help stoke the country’s flat property sector into life. But Australia’s housing remains highly over-valued…
Many commentators have claimed that the Coalition has proposed a cheaper but backward fibre-to-the-node option compared to Labor’s top of the range fibre-to-the-premises network. However, this is not entirely…
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