If the government had spent half as much on economic support but delivered it to the right places, inflation and interest rates could have been 2% lower.
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While it’s possible Frydenberg, 52, might consider running in the election after next, it would seem unlikely. The 2025 election was the logical time to try for a comeback bid
For many small businesses the past month has been the most difficult period of the pandemic. Australia needs a better plan to help more survive.
With Australia now in the worst stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, there could hardly be a worse time for Australian government to cut and restrict its Pandemic Leave Disaster Payment.
The Reserve Bank’s Term Funding Facility was meant to support lending during COVID. Instead the funds might be ending up in the accounts of bank shareholders.
Few Australian companies have been as harsh as Qantas in dealing with employees through the pandemic.
The business support package to save the NSW economy gets it right on most counts.
Australia’s official unemployment rate falling to 5.5% is enough to make a treasurer dance. But we shouldn’t get too carried away.
With younger people hit hardest by the pandemic’s economic impacts, it’s imperative to ensure an entire generation is not permanently disadvantaged.
JobKeeper, the COVID boost to JobSeeker, and moratoriums on rent increases and evictions all ended this month. Only smarter policies will prevent homelessness, as a landmark Victorian report explains.
With cuts to JobKeeper and JobSeeker set to bite, Social Services Minister Anne Ruston has cast doubt over the idea of a poverty line.
JobKeeper and the COVID Supplement to JobSeeker benefits will be gone in a week. The combined effect will be to halve some recipients’ incomes and the rent they can afford.
From some statistics 2020 looks like economic good times. Have relief measures averted economic pain or simply deferred it?
The Reserve Bank should stick to its guns. Australia’s economy still needs all the support it can get.
The inadequacy of the Newstart payment was recognised long before the pandemic. We shouldn’t go back to it.
Borrowing to reduce unemployment and increase growth will pay for itself.
Helping small businesses survive isn’t all about tax breaks, red tape and industrial relations changes. Here are four other things governments can do.
The federal government must provide more support if Victorian businesses and households are to survive the state’s Stage 4 lockdown.
The Australian government’s JobTrainer programs provides A$1.5 billion in wage support for apprentices and trainees.
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the production side of the economy, So how will tax cuts for those on high incomes help?
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Visiting Fellow, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Emeritus Professor of Finance, The University of Melbourne
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Distinguished Professor of Workplace Law, RMIT University
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for Future Work, Melbourne; and Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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