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Frydenberg's directions to ASIC throw the banking royal commission under a bus
Mick Tsikas/AAPFor Australia’s habitually-abused financial consumers it’s Back to the Future (minus the DeLorean).Treasurer Josh Frydenberg appears to have thrown the most important findings of the banking royal commission under…
Economists award Chalmers top marks for budget, but less for fighting inflation
Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-NDAsked to grade Jim Chalmers’ second budget on his own criteria of delivering “relief, repair and restraint”, most of the 57 leading economists surveyed by the…
Frydenberg is setting his budget ambition dangerously low
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s announcement that he’ll prioritise reducing unemployment[1] ahead of reducing government debt is welcome news. The government is required by the Charter of Budget Honesty[2] to develop and publish…
With house prices soaring again the government must get ahead of the market and become a 'customer of first resort'
GettyImagesHouse prices are spiking again, with “affordable homes” showing most growth. That’s no surprise really, with multiple factors in play.Market instability due to COVID-19 is driving asset acquisition — property…
Humans learn from mistakes — so why do we hide our failures?
pxfuel, CC BYA few years ago I had the pleasure of listening to the highly-influential legal scholar Cass Sunstein speak in the flesh. Cass wrote the best-selling book Nudge, along…
the Intergenerational Report in 7 charts
Commonwealth TreasuryThe Australian government has just released the latest iteration of its Intergenerational Report, the sixth since the first was published in 2002.Each provides a snapshot of the sort of…
why the cards were stacked against a union at Amazon
“Working at an Amazon warehouse is no easy thing. The shifts are long. The pace is super-fast. You are constantly being watched and monitored. They seem to think you are…