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Alan KohlerThe Australian |
If the Albanese Government is serious about getting solar panels made in Australia again, it had better start thinking about tariffs … big ones....
If the Albanese Government is serious about getting solar panels made in Australia again, it had better start thinking about tariffs … big ones....
A few years ago everybody was talking about Modern Monetary Theory, both ardently for and scornfully against, but nobody was doing it. Now everybody...
To the extent that the Coalition’s nuclear energy waffle contains an actual policy, it is that Australia should have a capacity market which is...
Australia should ban TikTok like the United States is doing, except we shouldn’t give its Chinese parent, ByteDance, the option of selling the...
This week is the fourth anniversary of the World Health Organisation declaring Covid-19 a global pandemic. It’s also exactly four years since...
Australia’s household sector is in a long, deep recession, the worst in 40 years. “Household” is an economist’s word for “family”, so...
Both major parties “lost” the Dunkley byelection because they don’t have an answer to the cost of housing. They both say they won of course, but...
There’s no danger of a nuclear power plant being built in Australia, but it’s banned anyway. It’s an absurd, politically timid ban. There’s...
When Brad Banducci quit as CEO of Woolworths last week and a couple of days later Nvidia reached a value of $3 trillion, I was taken back to 1970. I...
Without a hint of irony this week, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton declared that “there’s been a catastrophic failure in the system” because a...
In June last year I wrote a column for The New Daily headed: “Time to revisit the Allan Fels system of price control – naming and shaming”. It...
On Tuesday, RBA governor Michele Bullock was asked if the interest rate hike last November was a mistake, given that inflation and economic growth...
Last week I tweeted: “I am not dead.” My tweet, or should that be my ‘X’, even prompted a news article in the Daily Mail (admittedly, it...
It is so dispiriting to watch Australian politics obsess over a small change in the way bracket creep is redistributed when the real cost-of-living...
It would have been better for Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers to have fiddled with the stage-three tax cuts in their first budget last year, which...
Happily, the Reserve Bank can and will quietly bin the International Monetary Fund’s instruction that interest rates in Australia need to go up some...
As 2023 got under way, it looked like the year would be dominated by three big things: Recession in the United States, China’s real estate implosion...
After the farce over the release of 148 permanent detainees by the High Court, we must sadly conclude that the Labor Party is still traumatised by the...
Here’s a graph of the Bank of Japan’s key interest rate over the past five years: To be clear about what you’re looking at: Japan’s main...
The beginning of the end of affordable housing in Australia happened in 2000. Before then, the median house price was 3.5 times average household...
Unaffordable housing has a political cause and a political solution, but its victims simply don’t have enough political clout to make it happen....
Unaffordable housing has a political cause and a political solution, but its victims simply don’t have enough political clout to make it happen....
Unaffordable housing has a political cause and a political solution, but its victims simply don’t have enough political clout to make it happen....
Unaffordable housing has a political cause and a political solution, but its victims simply don’t have enough political clout to make it happen....
There was a sequence of three events in three days last week that added up to one big cautionary tale. On Wednesday in a speech in Singapore, the...
Harvesting resentment about the cost of living from opposition is Politics 101, and Peter Dutton is doing that with gusto and some success at the...
The favourite for Melbourne Cup Day is now Rate Hike, sired by Reserve Bank out of September Quarter CPI. The most important price in the lives of...
OPINION Anthony Pratt says his superpower is that he’s rich. (He was suggesting, in tape recordings published this week by Nine Entertainment, that...
The reason? Ozempic, the weight-loss drug, for both. Last year, CSL bought a Swiss company called Vifor for $18.2 billion, and one of the things it...
You can read it here but the beginning, and the gist of it, was: “The main problem we have as a society is that all of our leaders – politicians...
Twenty seven major companies joined the Yes campaign, and in many cases gave some money. There were also countless not-for-profits on the supporters...
If the companies that campaigned for the Voice to Parliament want to do something useful for Indigenous people they should move some of their...
There’s talk that Labor and the Coalition are close to agreeing on new laws to reform election campaign finances. The Special Minister of State, Don...
The NSW Education Department recently closed 20 schools on the south coast of the state and told 3000 students to stay home after the Rural Fire...
Last week’s employment white paper was the third in 80 years, but it was the first to define full employment. That might be a problem. The history...
Australian farmers are starting to earn carbon credits from extra plant material buried in their paddocks; it’s called soil carbon. The Clean Energy...
The Albanese government’s climate change policies are in danger of falling apart – they’re both inadequate and improbable. One way to rescue...
In the year to March, Australia’s population increased by 563,200 and 171,721 houses and apartments were built. The population growth consisted of...
Saturday was the 15th anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the defining event of the 2008 global financial crisis, and a very big day in...