This paper outlines the need for structural reform of the Reserve Bank of Australia. Structural reform of the Reserve Bank …
This submission focuses strongly on the housing affordability aspect of Australia’s productivity. Submission to the Productivity Commission Inquiry into Australia’s …
The backdrop to the forthcoming federal and state budgets for 2022/23 is that Australia’s public debt has increased sharply during the pandemic since 2019 — and is projected to increase further.
Inflation is rising around the world, the sting in the tail of the pandemic economic stimulus packages unleashed by governments in 2020. The narrative thus far is that this inflation spike is transitory, even if a little more persistent than first thought.
Submission to the government review into housing affordability in Australia. Housing in Australia is too expensive. Families on lower incomes …
This report explores what sort of post-Covid future Australians expect, based on YouGov polling conducted for the Centre for Independent …
Predictions have been made by the Doherty Institute and others that Australia will achieve full vaccination of 70% of the …
Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is a supposedly new macroeconomic paradigm, but it is essentially a reprise of 1930s Keynesian economics. …
Local residents often oppose new high-rise development apartment buildings on the grounds that they would harm neighbourhood character. This paper …
Aquifer groundwater is a crucial and valuable resource for Australia, but is poorly managed and monitored to the point of …
The day before news broke that inflation had surged to 5 per cent, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that …
This week, the Reserve Bank increased interest rates by 0.25%. This comes in response to last week’s ABS figures that …
Both major political parties support an external review of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) after the election. What should that review …
Hip pocket issues have always been a key part of any election campaign. In that respect, this election is no …
If it was remarkable how little hype there was going into this year’s budget, the rapid speed at which it …
The most striking feature of Tuesday’s 2022-23 federal budget is how well the Australian economy is performing. Whereas two years …
We are just a couple of days out from the budget and things are eerily quiet. Precious little detail has been leaked to the media.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has been busy massaging pre-budget expectations. We are told to expect an earlier and lower peak in debt as a proportion of GDP than previously forecast, with a decline over the medium term (which in budget-speak means up to 2032).
As surging petrol prices eat into household budgets, politicians have been trying to demonstrate their empathy with ordinary Australians. Federal Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, has signalled that this month’s Budget will contain targeted assistance to ease cost-of-living pressures.
Seemingly out of nowhere, defence has emerged as a key election issue. Of course, focus on defence procurement and spending has been growing for a number of years. It began with the decided cooling of relations with China, then was supercharged by Putin’s naked aggression in the Ukraine.