Lukas Coch/AAP May 15, 2024 The budget is full of good news, but good news isn’t the same as good management Kate Griffiths, Grattan Institute The budget projects deficits way out into the future with scarcely any measures in place to contain them.
Richard Wainwright/AAP March 21, 2023 How can Australia pay $368 billion for new submarines? Some of the money will be created from thin air Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University In the first year of the pandemic, Australians were given a glimpse of a truth so unnerving that economists and politicians normally keep it to themselves.
Brian A Jackson/Shutterstock April 5, 2021 Please, no more questions about how to pay off the COVID debt Steven Hail, Torrens University Australia Governments like ours choose to borrow, they don’t have to.