The decisions that made higher rates unavoidable were taken in Canberra. If inflation is the fire, interest rates are the fire brigade. Labor lit the match.
Jim Chalmers doesn’t have a central bank governor to blame for his forward misguidance or for his complaint that monetary policy may be “smashing the economy”.
Morrison deserves credit for insisting accusations of Islamophobia must not shut down necessary debate. But if this conversation is to lead anywhere constructive, it must move beyond symbolic architecture and confront a harder truth
If Australia wants productivity growth, it needs to start in the classroom.
We’re not in danger of becoming a banana republic, like Paul Keating warned in 1986. But we are losing our exceptional prosperity and sliding back into the pack of other less prosperous developed economies.
Eraring’s recently announced extension until 2029 has highlighted the absurdity of two key government decisions to approve spending in the name of the energy transition.
Those still clinging to the claim that renewable energy is cheapest will look back at the end of 2025 as …
Instead of rushing to add new laws to an already swollen statute book, we should enforce rigorously and without hesitation the laws already in place.
What should Australia have done over the past two years to prevent this moment — and why was it not
done?
Taxpayers know all too well that massive increases in education funding (approaching $100 billion a year) have had little impact on results.