menu_open
Craig Emerson

Craig Emerson

Brisbane Times

We use cookies to provide some features and experiences in QOSHE

More information  .  Close

Trump won due to worker resentment. Could the same happen here?

Beyond the effects on measured productivity growth, when it comes to shared prosperity, we also need to look at the role of pure profits.

16.12.2024 6

Financial Review

Craig Emerson

Reserve Bank is needlessly smashing jobs

By arbitrarily and wrongly defining full employment, the RBA will cause misery for vulnerable working Australians and small business owners that is...

02.12.2024 10

Financial Review

Craig Emerson

Australia a beacon for free-traders as Trump erects tariff walls

Australia is championing free trade at APEC and the G20 meetings. China’s practical support will now be critical.

18.11.2024 9

Financial Review

Craig Emerson

What is the Reserve Bank waiting for? The data says cut

If Martin Place insists on holding the cash rate until unemployment rises substantially, it risks plunging Australia into a painful recession.

04.11.2024 10

Financial Review

Craig Emerson

How Australia can help save rules-based trade

The global trading system of trade rules faces its gravest crisis since its inception. There is a way out and Australia can help.

21.10.2024 10

Financial Review

Craig Emerson

Who killed economic reform? There are plenty of suspects

Modern elections have become a race to rule policies out, not a way of launching big ideas.

07.10.2024 4

Financial Review

Craig Emerson

Dutton’s nuclear folly is an economy wrecker

Under the Coalition, Australian manufacturing would face a decade of uncertainty and taxpayers would finance the renationalisation of electricity...

23.09.2024 30

Financial Review

Craig Emerson

Rate decisions have to follow the data, not the dogma

Leading economic indicators have to be our guide, and they are all pointing towards an avoidable recession.

09.09.2024 8

Financial Review

Craig Emerson

Why you should hear out Andrew Hauser

The recessionistas out there should be listening to the RBA deputy governor’s warnings against overconfidence in predicting the economy.

26.08.2024 9

Financial Review

Craig Emerson

High-Level Dialogue shows China chill is ending

The resumed annual face-to-face meeting of government and industry has been crucial to stabilising the relationship.

12.08.2024 30

Financial Review

Craig Emerson

RBA must say no to the Recessionistas out there

The Reserve Bank is taking its dual mandate seriously and seems to be ignoring the incessant clamouring for another rise in the cash rate.

05.08.2024 6

Financial Review

Craig Emerson

Albanese can’t afford distractions now

The prime minister has to shrug off culture wars and Green taunts to focus relentlessly on an improving economy.

22.07.2024 10

Financial Review

Craig Emerson

Economic logic always trumps junk politics

Brexit, MAGA trade policies, and the Coalition’s nuclear power push will fail because they make no economic sense.

08.07.2024 3

Financial Review

Craig Emerson

Why this is a practical, workable supermarket code of conduct

The new code offers the best of both a mandatory and voluntary system of compliance for the supermarket giants.

24.06.2024 6

Financial Review

Craig Emerson

Recessions are nasty and shouldn’t be engineered to tame inflation

Talk of a need to increase the cash rate is misguided – especially so when the main culprits behind the 3.6 per cent inflation rate are identified.

10.06.2024 30

Financial Review

Craig Emerson

We must protect Australia’s free and open economy

Australia prospered in an open postwar world economy. But a new generation has less faith in it.

27.05.2024 50

Financial Review

Craig Emerson

Gas critics are signing up for coal and candles

The climate movement needs to ask itself what is worse: gas in the new energy mix, or coal that lingers for longer.

14.05.2024 100

Financial Review

Craig Emerson

RBA must ignore the band of economists pushing a rate rise

The Reserve Bank should not be firing up its interest rate models on the strength of inflation that is now steadily dropping into target range.

29.04.2024 50

Financial Review

Craig Emerson

RBA must ignore the band of economists pushing a rise

The Reserve Bank should not be firing up its interest rate models on the strength of inflation that is now steadily dropping into target range.

29.04.2024 40

Financial Review

Craig Emerson

Compulsory grocery code strikes right balance

The interim report seeks to prevent big supermarkets from abusing their market power while rejecting populist policies such as forced divestiture of...

07.04.2024 6

Financial Review

Craig Emerson

Dutton’s nuclear plan is all politics

The opposition is more interested in keeping the Nationals in the tent than carbon emissions at bay.

18.03.2024 40

Financial Review

Craig Emerson

Dunkley sets up Labor’s 2025 win

While the Liberals look down rabbit holes like crime and refugees, Labor plans to claim vindication on economic policy.

04.03.2024 5

Financial Review

Craig Emerson

Why it’s vital that the RBA cuts rates at mid-year

The central bank is at great risk of overshooting its policy settings into higher unemployment and it is workers and small business who will cop it.

19.02.2024 10

Financial Review

Craig Emerson

Liberals don’t want real tax reform

Except for Malcolm Turnbull, Liberal leaders have always scuppered tax overhauls that did not suit the direct interests of them and their outriders.

05.02.2024 10

Financial Review

Craig Emerson

In the shopping trolley war, the supermarkets have to give

Suppliers can get paid more, and shoppers pay less. But only if supermarket giants are forced to compete more.

22.01.2024 10

Financial Review

Craig Emerson

How Albanese can rebuild from here

The Labor government ran into headwinds during 2023. But is the political breeze about to shift in its direction.

07.01.2024 20

Financial Review

Craig Emerson

Energy transition needs gas not nuclear

A rational decarbonising energy policy offers a middle path between the Absolutists and the Denialists.

11.12.2023 20

Financial Review

Craig Emerson

97a4ac0f112b106364e04b9c34243d58