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 …
True believers in lower taxes and smaller government have had little to celebrate in a long time as ‘spend, tax …
Queensland’s government proclaims in the spirit of the state’s long-standing fiscal tradition that it “is committed to no new or …
One predictable consequence of the change of government in May was that it would take about five minutes for the …
The current uncertainty surrounding the Stage 3 tax cuts was both an entirely predictable and completely avoidable result of the …
The Morrison government’s stage 3 income tax cuts— still almost two years away from their legislated implementation — are dangling …
In the political world, it seems new ‘wars’ are breaking out all the time (reading, maths, culture). Consequently you may …
This week’s economic statement from Treasurer Jim Chalmers has answered some pressing economic questions. First and foremost, inflation will remain …
So Australia will follow New Zealand’s ‘lead’ in introducing a wellbeing-focused budget. Labor has been flagging the desire to adopt …
The period immediately following an election is about as good as it gets for a majority government; especially one that …
Liberals once stood for a smaller state, popular capitalism and a sensible approach to public finances. The party’s ideological regression …