If turbocharged petrol prices are driving up inflation, then why are Australia’s unemployed on the line? Avoiding a rise in unemployment is important for the RBA – but apparently not a dealbreaker The Guardian - AU · Sep 30
Morning Mail: High-end home values fall; costs of sea level rise revealed; and is AI coming for humans? Expensive homes worst hit in property price downturn; report details staggering impacts of sea level rise; tech insiders raise alarm over AI advances The Guardian - AU · Sep 9
Morning Mail: Holes in Labor’s gambling law, IDF rejects criminal investigation into Frankcom death, Meta and child safety in spotlight Recovering addict says new laws will not prevent companies using inducements; Meta chief ‘misled’ regulators, whistleblower says The Guardian - AU · Aug 19
Australia’s drop in real wages is a disaster. But the profits of major corporations are doing just fine Wages are not growing out of control and the labour market is not ‘tight’ The Guardian - AU · Aug 19
Isn’t it amazing what a policy that actually tackles the cause of outrageous house prices can do? Labor has shown what a government can do to improve housing affordability, exposing how pathetic previous attempts had been The Guardian - AU · Aug 12
Pressure is growing inside Labor to properly tax gas exports. Here’s what a 25% tax could pay for A change in the ALP’s platform signals the fight to get a fair return for our resources is not over The Guardian - AU · Jul 22
'Real desire': gas tax on the cards at Labor conference Calls for a 25 per cent tax on gas exports could come to a head on the floor of Labor's national conference, as advocates say momentum is growing for the move. AAP · Jul 20
One Nation’s economic thought bubbles have little substance – except for one The idea of a people’s bank has been long floated by the Greens. Anything that reduces the oligopoly power of the big four banks is a good thing The Guardian - AU · Jul 15
Capital gains tax changes are already having an impact on wealth inequality – and vested interests are running scared Weekend house auction results and the official taxation data reveal the arguments from outraged conservatives are hollow The Guardian - AU · Jun 24
Morning Mail: The high cost of romance scams, UK PM expected to step down, Iran peace talks suspended over Trump threats Australians cheated out of millions by romance scams; US-Iran peace talks under way in Switzerland The Guardian - AU · Jun 21
The Crunch: Climate refugees, visualising Elon Musk’s wealth, and the many ways to analyse the World Cup Want to get this in your inbox every fortnight? Sign up for The Crunch here. The Guardian - AU · Jun 19
A joy to watch? Pauline Hanson gets a warm welcome in some parts of the media As One Nation leader is hailed as ‘a politician ready to rule’, Greg Jericho is booted from the press gallery. Plus: a ‘WTF moment’ across the Tasman The Guardian - AU · Jun 19
The bleak view that unemployment needs to rise shows the RBA acts firstly in the interests of companies, not workers The Reserve Bank governor has made clear the cash rate has been increased not to reduce inflation but to make it harder to bargain for higher wages The Guardian - AU · Jun 17
Australia’s GDP figures are meaningless when the boom in datacentres means destroying jobs and the climate In the March quarter Australia’s economy grew 0.3%. But the real issue is what drove that growth The Guardian - AU · Jun 3
The Guardian - AU · May 27 Australians with disabilities copped the biggest cuts in the budget. Yet conservative media’s heart bleeds only for the wealthy The reaction to the budget has revealed Australia’s warped priorities, with the appalling inequality in dental care among the issues actively ignored
The Guardian - AU · May 13 Australian workers have been hard done by and tax reforms in the budget only begin to return some fairness The CGT discount not only increased the benefit to non-wage earners, it did so in a way that incentivised investing in rental properties rather than shares
The Guardian - AU · May 6 In this budget, all eyes are on CGT. But Labor’s rumoured family trust tweaks might also help fight tax inequality If Albanese’s newest budget can tame discretionary trust tax dodging, it will be a good step in ensuring the rich are treated the same as the rest of us
The Guardian - AU · Apr 29 Another RBA rate rise won’t fix inflation – it will just smash households already hit by soaring fuel costs The latest ABS consumer price index figures show just how pointless hiking interest rates would be at dealing with inflation. But raising rates is baked into the Reserve Bank’s DNA
The Guardian - AU · Apr 22 Capital gains tax changes are on the table, and yet Armageddon has not arrived. Has the tide on housing turned at last? We are less than a month out from the budget and Labor’s mooted adjustments to tax concessions for property investors have barely registered
The Guardian - AU · Apr 15 The IMF refuses to name the cause of this global chaos. It starts with ‘Donald’ and ends in ‘Trump’ The International Monetary Fund remains stuck in a situation where the biggest concern about inflation is wages
The Guardian - AU · Apr 8 Is Australia headed for a recession? I hope not - but the RBA should be more worried In backing down on his threats to destroy Iranian civilisation, Donald Trump has lessened concerns of a recession in Australia – at least for now
The Guardian - AU · Mar 11 Labor must stop juicing house prices and make buying a home the Australian dream – not negatively gearing one The rumours of action on the capital gains tax discount and negative gearing are louder than before any budget this century. But is the PM up to the task?
The Guardian - AU · Feb 25 Morning Mail: hopes and dreams of Australian children in Syria, Tim Wilson’s ‘terrible’ bet, more Epstein fallout Australian children tell us about their hopes of liberty, Bluey and escaping tents; shadow treasurer’s investment bets against success of economy
The Guardian - AU · Feb 18 As real wage growth falls again, Australian workers must feel the economy is rigged against them The RBA never misses a chance to blame wages for rising prices but data shows profit-driven inflation is back
The Guardian - AU · Feb 4 Afternoon Update: Labor unrest over Herzog visit; defence site sell-off; and a ‘deplorable’ secret about motherhood Ed Husic says he has ‘deep concerns’ over impending visit of Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog