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Alan Kohler: Jim Chalmers delivers a responsible budget, with no repair and no relief

The last time a new government brought down its first budget, in 2014, it was a disaster for all concerned.

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Alan Kohler: The RBA has done enough – it would be reckless to keep hiking rates

The RBA has already done enough: it would be reckless, heartless and dangerous to keep raising interest rates, Alan Kohler writes.

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Alan Kohler: Reserve Bank the best bet to save humanity from climate crisis

Here’s a crazy idea: give the job of dealing with climate change to the Reserve Bank, Alan Kohler writes.

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Alan Kohler: To reform financial advice, start again

The regulation of financial advice in Australia has been a disaster, swinging from not enough to too much of the wrong sort. We need a new copper.

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Alan Kohler: Evan Thornley’s plan to get super funds into housing

The Keating iron fist in the Chalmers’ velvet glove is that if the super funds don’t invest in housing voluntarily, the Labor government will make them.

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Where do the RBA and economists now stand on wages growth?

Decision makers are torn between wanting to lift wages for fairness and consumption, and wanting to keep wages down to control inflation.

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Alan Kohler: A plan for the new welfare state

Daniel Mulino's new book proposes that welfare in Australia needs to be reformed, and he proposes five strategies for a “new welfare state”.

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Alan Kohler: The hubris of central bankers and the limits of money

Once again central banks, including Philip Lowe’s Reserve Bank, have kept extreme monetary policies in place for too long

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What if we had to sanction China?

China has become an aggressive, revisionist power, nourished by arrogance built from the economic strength that comes from decades of growth.

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Alan Kohler: Labor’s climate change safeguard mechanism is going to be a minefield

No wonder Labor has allowed 12 months to sort the details of the climate bill's safeguard mechanism reform. It’s going to be a minefield.

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Alan Kohler: Labor’s love affair with summits continues

Labor governments love having summits. Hawke had two, Rudd had one and now Albanese is having one. It's down to their bent towards consensus building.

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