Following increasing calls for stimulus to be injected into the economy, the government will outline an infrastructure bring-forward of A$3.8 billion over the next four years.
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Treasury Secretary Steven Kennedy says its up to the Reserve Bank to boost the economy. In normal times, that’s not his job.
Record low interest rates will almost certainly drive up property prices. But they will also drive down unemployment and boost investment generally.
After decades of research showing the link between union power and wages growth, government economists don’t want to talk about it.
The Australian government’s approach to economic growth is strictly conventional, and may be leading to the wrong policies.
Two Queensland-based experts discuss what so many politicians and pundits get wrong about the Sunshine State – and what its citizens are crying out for.
The Stage 3 cuts would make Australia’s income tax system the least progressive in 60 years.
Household wealth in Australia has taken its biggest dive since the global financial crisis. But it’s not all doom and gloom.
The Reserve Bank cut interest rates on Tuesday because we weren’t spending or pushing up prices at the rate it wanted. On Wednesday we might find things are worse than it thought.
Putting employee directors on Australian boards is seriously back on the agenda for the first time since the 1970s.
All you need to know about the 2019-20 federal budget in our simple at-a-glance graphic.
The government wants this election to be all about tax. The tax cuts you will get, now and later. And the “higher taxes” that Bill Shorten would impose.
Peter Costello’s Future Fund is funding the apparent elimination of government debt.
It’s a cash splash worthy of Rudd, and it will push an extra $3.5 billion into the economy within weeks.
Booming global commodity prices have masked the impacts of a weakening economy. With luck, the budget will be the shot it needs.
Trade tells a story of modern Australia that began long before January 26, 1788.
The consequences of Brexit mean Australian exporters need to stop focusing on Britain and think more about Europe.
Minister for Finance Mathias Cormann said corporate tax cuts in the US had led to ‘stronger investment, stronger growth, a lower unemployment rate and higher wages’. Let’s take a closer look.
Use our drag-and-drop interactive to find out how incomes, financial wellbeing, and housing stress has changed since 2001 for various ‘family types’, including singles or couples without children.
Was shadow minister for finance Jim Chalmers correct when he said that under the current Coalition government, net debt had doubled? We asked the experts.
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Emeritus Professor of Economics (Griffith University) and Teaching Associate (University of Queensland), Griffith University
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Dean of Business School, University of Southern Queensland
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
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Director, Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University
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Professiorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Economics, Monash University
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Industry Professor and Chief Economist, University of Technology Sydney
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School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Professorial Fellow and Co-Director, HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
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Economist and Director, Centre for Future Work, Australia Institute; Honorary Professor of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Professor of Economics, University of Canberra
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Professor of Macroeconomics, University of Sydney