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The instant asset write-off is encouraging businesses to buy things they don’t really need, and Labor’s is worse.
The real estate industry acts in its own interests, not those of the tenants it scares.
Beware the airy promise of cutting red tape and saving billions. They might come for you in a way you that hurts.
Australia’s Fair Work Commission concluded that cutting penalty rates would create more jobs. Our research suggests it was wrong.
Labor’s plan for an Evaluator General could be a big change to the way we evaluate and test government policy. We just have to get the details right.
It’s the highest earning most wealthy shareowners who’ll be missing the cheques.
The real problem with the government’s first home owner deposit scheme is that it won’t prioritise those who need the funds the most.
You can’t help first home buyers without making other buyers worse off.
Expect two more interest rate cuts, but they mightn’t be enough.
Topping up deposits by as much as 15 percentage points will help, but housing isn’t risk-free.
History shows there’s no best economic manager. They’re both pretty good.
Once opposition costings were once a highlight of election campaigns. They would be full of mistakes. Not now.
Courts and contracts have given employers greater power to control the private or out-of-hours conduct of employees.
Putting employee directors on Australian boards is seriously back on the agenda for the first time since the 1970s.
The state of budget-balance fetishism in Australia means political leaders promise to balance the budget, no matter what.
Bigger surpluses, lower debt and tax cuts baked in the Coalition’s worst nightmare come true.
The global evidence from more than 300 studies on the economic impact of unionisation shows unions do not, overall, reduce productivity.
Paying wages directly would be an Australian first, and far from ideal.
Houses will be worth more or less what they would have been, if Labor’s policies are adopted, NSW Treasury analysis says.
Labor’s proposal is a grab for money, disguised as something grander.
Retirees with superannuation balances of $1. pay and pay no tax and get annual imputation cheques of $63,000.
Overruling the Fair Work Commission will give Labor what it wants, at the cost of diminishing the commission.
Social norms and stereotypes can make it hard for someone younger to be a mentor. But the changing nature of work demands we work out how to do it.
It ought to be possible to replace Australia’s minimum wage with a higher “living wage” without putting people our of work, but more will be needed.