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Date publshed |
Productivity – maybe one good aspect of the Morrison-Frydenberg budget | 29-Oct-2020 | |
The ACT Election – a loss for Liberals but not really a win for Labor | 20-Oct-2020 | |
The government sees itself as an agent of the private sector | 8-Oct-2020 | |
The path out of recession: knowns and unknowns | 28-Jul-2020 | |
Economic reflections on the lockdown | 21-May-2020 | |
A little more coronavirus arithmetic | 22-Apr-2020 | |
Arithmetic supports a policy of eradicating coronavirus | 14-Apr-2020 | |
We should be thankful that Morrison wasn’t our PM in 1939 | 18-Mar-2020 | |
The Reserve Bank’s interest rate cut – a futile gesture? | 5-Mar-2020 | |
In defence of Bridget McKenzie | 30-Jan-2020 | |
Tuvalu, climate change and Westminster | 20-Aug-2019 | |
Why do we trust our economy to this mob? | 26-Jun-2019 | |
Don’t call economic reform “class war” | 7-Jun-2019 | |
No wonder the real-estate agents went against Labor | 23-May-2019 | |
Dutton knew what he was doing when he booted out Turnbull | 20-May-2019 | |
Bob Hawke’s open letter to Australians | 17-May-2019 | |
Don’t be distracted by the Coalition’s promise of a budget surplus | 22-Apr-2019 | |
Surely Morrison isn’t seriously asking us to trust him | 17-Apr-2019 | |
A budget to entrench economic vulnerability | 4-Apr-2019 | |
Banks and the housing bubble | 26-Feb-2019 | |
The rot set in when they privatized the Commonwealth Bank | 19-Feb-2019 | |
Labor’s policy on imputation credits is flawed, but it’s in the right direction | 4-Feb-2019 | |
Medicare under threat -- from Labor! | 17-Jan-2019 | |
The housing bubble, inflated by Howard and Costello, is now deflating. | 9-Jan-2019 | |
Reminder to Peter Dutton and Scott Morrison: Australia is a parliamentary democracy | 19-Dec-2018 | |
The National Electricity Market is a mess. Morrison wants to make it messier | 5-Dec-2018 | |
Victoria’s election: the trend behind the noise | 28-Nov-2018 | |
How Peter Dutton and Kelly O’Dwyer set themselves up to look ridiculous | 21-Nov-2018 | |
Watch for Morrison’s next round of economic impression management | 13-Nov-2018 | |
The finance sector -- value creation or vlue extraction? | 29-Oct-2018 | |
Outdoor advertising – enclosing the commons | 10-Oct-2018 | |
A new “leader”, but no sight of leadership (With John Menadue) | 29-Aug-2018 | |
We sympathise with you Malcolm, but you should have read your mail | 27-Aug-2018 | |
If we can’t kill the NEG can we at least shape it into something useful? | 17-Aug-2018 | |
Don't rush to endorse the National Energy Guarantee: there's an election in a few months | 8-Aug-2018
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How political opportunism and poor journalism brought us a dumbed down tax debate | 29-Jun-2018
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What's so sacred about small business? | 5-Jun-2018
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Dutton's extended police powers won't be confined to airports | 22-May-2018
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Morrison's budget: 23.9 is the new 42 | 9-May-2018
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The BCA needs to study Argentinian history and some basic economics | 3-May-2018
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Strong employment growth - until you look behind the figures | 23-Apr-2018
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A warning about team players | 3-Apr-2018
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South Australia's election:Xenophon no kingmaker, but still a force | 28-Mar-2018
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Labor's superannuation changes: clever cosmetics but a failure on equity, public revenue and economics | 15-Mar-2018
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Tax reform, not tax cuts | 5-Mar-2018
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Turnbull's dead albatross: The National Party | 21-Feb-2018
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Has labor lost its nerve on private health insurance | 6-Feb-2018
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Reframing Public Ideas - consolidation of eight articles (pdf) | 1-Jan-2018
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The finance sector: a drag on the real economy | 6-Dec-2017
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Queensland election: a policy challenge for the Coalition | 28-Nov-2017
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership isn’t about trade liberalisation: it’s about corporate protection | 17-Nov-2017
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Scott Morrison commissions an economic platform for a Shorten Government | 1-Oct-2017
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Turnbull’s National Energy Guarantee: can it work? | 23-Oct-2017
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Yet another futile attempt to support private health insurance | 16-Oct-2017
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What Australia can learn from Germany’s election | 3-Oct-2017
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Private Health Insurance – let’s make the young pay. | 21-Sep-2017
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Mates, lobbyists and rent-seekers | 18-Sep-2017
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Electricity discounts for some, price rises for others | 4-Sep-2017
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Low wage growth: does the government understand how capitalism works? | 28-Sep-2017
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Pauline Hanson, Malcolm Turnbull, and the ABC – a Faustian bargain | 16-Aug-2017
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Can Labor hold its nerve on tax reform? | 1-Aug-2017
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Dutton’s new super ministry: will it make us safer? | 27-Jul-2017
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The National Party’s Dämmerung – an awakening for representative democracy? | 19-Jul-2017
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Australia’s economy: she’ll be right mate – or will she? | 14-Jul-2017
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Comrade Abbott – Comrade who? | 12-Jul-2017
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This time, let’s get electricity pricing right | 26-Jun-2017
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Learning from the UK election | 12-Jun-2017
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Australia’s finance sector: a bloated overhead? | 8-Jun-2017
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Labor’s love affair with private health insurers | 2-Jun-2017
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There’s more to Morrison’s conversion on debt than appears at first sight | 12-May-2017
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The budget – still tough on the young | 11-May-2017
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Doing without private health insurance | 28-Apr-2017
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The Liberal Party’s French connection | 27-Apr-2017
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Capital gains taxes: Keating got it right in 1985 | 19-Apr-2017
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Can we please have a more intelligent debate about corporate taxes | 12-Apr-2017
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The National Electricity Market: What happens when economists get involved with electricity | 15-Mar-2017
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Warning from Colin Barnett: Privatisation is on the nose | 13-Mar-2017
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South Australia’s Electricity Problems: Jay Weatherill should follow the Coalition’s example | 8-Mar-2017
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Pauline Hanson’s youth support | 2-Mar-2017
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What lies beyond capitalism? | 6-Feb-2017
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Holden cars, AWA TVs, Chesty Bonds underwear: Manufacturing and globalisation | 29-Nov-2016
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Opportunity knocks: the economics of a Trump victory | 21-Nov-2016
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Mein Drumpf: Hitler, Donald Trump And A Shot Across The Bow For The Left | 11-Nov-2016
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The future of globalisation (With John Menadue) | 31-Oct-2016
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The mounting case for a royal commission into banks and insurance companies | 22-Sep-2016
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Health care and Labor | 10-Aug-2016
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Problems of Private Health Insurance | 2-Aug-2016
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Brexit – retreat to isolationism and discontent of those left behind | 29-Jun-2016
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Bill Shorten Is Right: Malcolm Turnbull Is A Major Threat To Medicare | 21-Jun-2016
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A royal commission into banking and the private health insurance industry | 16-Jun-2016
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The difference in the economic policies of the major parties | 16-Jun-2016
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The more we examine the Coalition’s ‘plan’ to cut corporate taxes, the more is revealed of its economic shortcomings | 20-May-2016
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Are Conservatives better economic managers? | 20-Apr-2016
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Labor’s policies | 1-Apr-2016
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The government says that tax cuts are good for workers! | 23-Mar-2016
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Chris Bowen and ‘The Money Men’ | 29-Feb-2016
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The only unifying thread in the Liberal Party is a compulsion to keep Labor out of office | 11-Feb-2016
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Private health insurance – does the lady protest too much? | 3-Feb-2016
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Private health Insurance companies are price takers. Prices are set by doctors and hospitals (with Jennifer Doggett and John Menadue) | 14-Jan-2016
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Economic management, lobbyists and the Coalition Government | 1-Oct-2015
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Refugees and German redemption | 14-Sep-2015
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The ABC and a second chance | 1-Jul-2015
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Inequality matters | 17-Jun-2015
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Ian McAuley and Miriam Lyons – Governomics | 14-Jun-2015
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Role of government | 16-May-2015
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If the government wants price signals, it should stop supporting health insurance | 9-Apr-2015
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The speech that Tony Abbott almost delivered to the National Press Club | 18-Feb-2015
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Pyne on education funding | 4-Dec-2014
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A Year Of Tony Abbott | 9-Jun-2014
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Ignored Budget issues | 14-May-2014
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Pay for a GP visit | 12-May-2014
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Piketty and the gap between rich and poor. Inequality of wealth is the problem rather than the inequality of income | 30-Apr-2014
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Inequality in Australia | 6-Apr-2014
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The case for government funding of healthcare (with Jennifer Doggett and John Menadue) | 27-Mar-2014
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Cutting waste and costs in health | 3-Feb-2014
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Health care and the budget deficit in the US (with John Menadue) | 26-Dec-2013
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Julie Bishop fails Economics I | 17-Sep-2013
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Government failure in health care (with John Menadue) | 20-Aug-2013
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Catholic Health still leaves the impression that it wants to destroy Medicare (with John Menadue) | 30-May-2013
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Sport and Markets | 17-Feb-2013
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