• Open for business

    Graeme Dobell     |      April 6, 2025

    As Trump imposes tariffs to shut out the world, Australia could show the Indo-Pacific how open it is by killing the last of its tariffs, completing our trek from being a highly protected economy to one of the most open in the world.

  • A capital idea

    Joseph Zeller     |      March 23, 2025

    To secure a prosperous future, Australia must address capital allocation within its economy, orienting to revitalise its domestic manufacturing industry.

  • Australia’s economic (mini) miracle

    John Quiggin     |      March 22, 2025

    Despite COVID and the current cost of living crisis, the most striking feature of the Australian economy in the 21st century has been the exceptionally long period of fairly steady, though not rapid, economic growth.

  • Manufacturing security

    Bronte Munro     |      March 14, 2025

    As the geopolitical landscape continues to shift, Australia must be able to sustain itself and contribute advanced capabilities by improving its much-reduced industrial capability.

  • Australia should steel itself for an uncertain future

    Katie Miller     |      March 13, 2025

    A UNSW academic accepts that Donald Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminium will hurt Australia’s economy and argues that policymakers should focus on strategic adaptability and trade diversification if America seems set on autarky.

  • Be the change we want to see

    ANU Editorial Board     |      March 11, 2025

    Complaining about President Donald Trump’s tariff imposts won’t change anyone’s mind, but Australia can take on the leadership role Trump’s America has abdicated – by abolishing, rather than raising, tariffs.

  • Handling Trump’s tariff war

    Katie Miller     |      March 8, 2025

    Several short-term strategies, including flexible contracting, diversification, and nearshoring, can help the Australian economy mitigate the risks and costs of US tariffs.

  • Mixed fortunes

    Elizabeth Morton     |      March 6, 2025

    Australia’s history is sprinkled with attempts at tax reform which enjoyed varying degrees of success. A new book, Mixed Fortunes, explores these efforts at substantive change in our tax system from the establishment of the Australian Constitution at Federation in 1901 to the major tax reforms of the 1980s and 1990s and the lack of tax reform today, despite fundamental economic changes.

  • Securing Australia’s interests in a Trumpian trade world

    Andrew Horton     |      February 22, 2025

    Australia must adopt a sophisticated and multi-layered strategy to engage the second Trump administration on trade and security.

  • The economy needs boldness not bandages

    Ashley Craig     |      February 14, 2025

    Australia heads towards the 2025 election a little too relaxed about what’s required to drive our economy into the future. The challenges ahead demand an agenda of genuine reform.

  • Supply chain tensions

    Elizabeth Mackie     |      January 30, 2025

    Having piled all their manufacturing into China to reduce their costs, global manufacturers have been diversifying their supply chains beyond China again, but this trend brings its own set of problems.

  • You make your own luck

    ANU Editorial Board     |      January 7, 2025

    If it is to avoid having its luck run out, Australia needs a reform agenda suited to the structure of the Australian economy and its new position in the world.