If we want the latest health care, disability care and aged care, we’ll have to be prepared to pay for it.
- Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
The Conversation’s panel expects weak economic growth, weak investment, even lower unemployment and two more years of ultra-low interest rates.
The report will show that by 2061 there will only be 2.7 Australians of traditional working age for each Australian over 65.
On Monday Treasurer Josh Frydenberg will produce projections stretching out 40 years, well beyond 2050 when the government says it wants to cut net carbon emissions to zero
Eight in ten of these surveyed by the Economic Society of Australia say it’s the role of government to smooth the transition.
Unless we’re careful the damage will be long-lasting — especially for younger Australians.
New tax office figures show only 2% of Australians earn more than $211,000 a year.
Things looked good, although we were still cautious at the end of March. Our national accounts are prepared with a lag.
Inflation and wage rises used to shrink the repayment burden. We’re being granted mortgages as if they still will.
In 2007 Malcolm Turnbull turned off an industry’s life support without blinking. It’s time for Australia to do it again.
Only three of the 56 economists surveyed gave the budget an ‘A’, but 41% gave it either an A or a B.
Had it not been for the global financial crisis we wouldn’t have known what sudden overwhelming spending could do.
Never before has a budget done so much to supercharge the economy after the worst of a recession has passed.
The budget is Australia’s State of the Union. It’s the only night of the year the government sets out a program against which it can be held accountable.
47 of the 60 leading economists surveyed by the Economic Society and The Conversation back the Treasurer’s decision to aim for an unemployment rate of less than 5%.
Productivity was meant to be growing faster and faster. It’s growing slower and slower.
The recession was pinked-tinged, but so has been the recovery.
We’ve plenty of homes. Rents have barely moved for half a decade
Cash holdings jumped 17% during the crisis, most of them in the form of $50 and $100 notes.
Financially stressing people who can’t make ends meet makes it hard for them to function.
Nothing, not even advertising will be permitted unless it is in the ‘best financial interests’ of members.
There’s a chance he will lead the organisation for a long time.
What was a feature of power stations such as Yallourn has become a bug.
This government has known more about the granular detail of the crisis than any government in any crisis before it.
Economic activity has returned to almost what it was before the crisis, but to nowhere near were it would have been were it not for the crisis.
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