Yesterday
- Opinion
- Interest rates
There’s a compelling case for RBA reducing interest rates on Tuesday
The board has created expectations of no rate cut at the final meeting of 2024. That’s the mirror of its 2021 error when it implied there would be no rise.
November
- Opinion
- US Votes 2024
The economic consequences for Australians of Trump or Harris
The Democratic candidate would be better for Australia on climate change, the risks of a US deficit-driven financial crisis and a bit better on trade.
May
- Opinion
- Energy transition
Critics wrong about our clean energy ‘superpower’ plan picking winners
We share concerns about arbitrary government intervention, but our carbon pricing model is designed to minimise those risks.
February
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Why economist Richard Holden is wrong on energy
Here is our response to Richard Holden’s common misrepresentations and distortions of our carbon solutions levy proposal.
May 2023
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Good economic outcomes are not about monetary policy alone
The RBA review should have paid more attention to what Keynes once said about uplifting performance coming from a full orchestra, and not a virtuoso performance on a single instrument.
March 2023
- Opinion
- Climate policy
Australia doesn’t need America’s destructive green protectionism
Australian knowledge, talents and natural advantages, not US subsidies, will underwrite decarbonisation of the rich and densely populated economies of Asia and Europe.
September 2022
- Opinion
- Jobs summit
Why we need policies that we now think impossible
The realities facing Australia are much more dangerous than revealed to the electorate in May. We must recognise the need for policies that we now think impossible.
June 2022
- Opinion
- Australian economy
A will to reform is best fix for a dreadful set of numbers
Australia’s elites and vested interests have to change their ideas on what is possible with serious public policy thinking.
April 2022
- Opinion
- Climate policy
Why we need to stop kidding ourselves about climate change
Climate change connects crucial Australian interests, and we are the developed country that has most to lose from climate disruption.
December 2021
- Opinion
- Climate policy
Catch the energy superpower tide to defeat recovery headwinds
Committing to stronger action on the climate is an opportunity for Australia to put the years of stagnation behind it, and move into a new era of rising real incomes.
- Opinion
- Employment
Why Frydenberg is aiming for full employment
Fixing how the tax and transfer system would lower underemployment and lift living standards. And help put a three in front of the jobless rate.
- Opinion
- Climate policy
Voluntary climate action won’t reach net zero
‘Technology not taxes’ is not enough. A price on carbon is needed to make more expensive lower-emissions innovations the cheaper option.
November 2021
- Opinion
- Climate policy
Climate protectionism wastes Australia’s energy comparative advantage
By opting to protect dirty fossil fuels, we risk missing out on the clean industry export opportunities of the low-carbon future,
- Opinion
- Climate policy
Morrison ‘plan’ is kidding about Australia reaching net zero
Five policy adjustments to reduce emissions faster would put our hand on the side of stronger global climate action in our national interest.
- Opinion
- Climate policy
Australia’s missed energy opportunity in Glasgow
By standing with China, Brazil and Russia at COP26, the country failed to support the global progress critical to its future as a low-carbon superpower.
April 2021
- Opinion
- Monetary policy
Historic change sees RBA leave the dog days behind
It’s taken the global pandemic for the RBA to finally ditch the too-tight monetary policy that held the economy back after the global financial crisis.
December 2020
- Opinion
- World politics
What Bidenomics means for Australia
Monetary policy differences with the US could push the Australian dollar higher and hold back the recovery. But the biggest risk is being isolated from Joe Biden on climate change.
August 2020
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
Reconstruction can blow post-virus dog days away
Australia must break sharply with pre-COVID-19 politics and policy so the economy can snap back better from the most severe downturn since the 1930s.
November 2019
- Opinion
- Renewables
Three reforms that can make us the world's low-carbon superpower
No other country has the new energy opportunities that we do. And changes needed are consistent with government policy.
