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Chill, folks
Richard Holden | November 21, 2021True wages growth, and true price growth, is probably less than the official figures suggest – meaning there’s no need for alarm about inflation in Australia.
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A power shift in global economics
Nicolas Herault | November 17, 2021Low interest rates and COVID-19 mean governments, not central banks, now control the world’s key economic levers.
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Are Australians breaking up with casual work?
Kate Bettes | November 16, 2021More casual jobs are becoming available as hospitality and other sectors open back up, but will casual employees be willing to return to a working situation that treated them so poorly in the pandemic?
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Embracing the opportunities of Industry 4.0 in northern Australia
Gillian Savage | November 4, 2021Industries, manufacturing and agribusiness in the north need to reimagine their operating models and pursue new ways of doing business based on the opportunities offered by Industry 4.0.
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Economics in the real world
David Jaeger | October 12, 2021The Nobel committee’s decision to award its economics prize for 2021 to David Card, Josh Angrist and Guido Imbens marks the culmination of a revolution in the way economists approach the world that began more than 30 years ago.
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Boosting Indonesia–Australia economic relations
Eko Saputro | October 12, 2021The future of Indonesia–Australia economic relations will see an intersection of various interests, including government, business communities, and intellectuals from Indonesia and Australia.
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Saving free trade in the post-COVID world
Evgeny Postnikov | October 5, 2021The post-pandemic recovery offers an opportunity recalibrate existing policies to maintain the fruits of the last few decades of trade liberalisation while making its benefits more equitable across societies.
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Regulatory compliance won’t stop financial crime
Ben Scott | October 5, 2021The fight against money laundering and the influx of criminal funds into the economy needs the support of a wide range of professionals and institutions, as well as the banks and other financial institutions.
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We’re doing well despite Delta, but 3 economic challenges remain
Richard Holden | September 20, 2021Australia faces economic problems down the road if three big, structural reform areas – housing affordability, the tax mix, and decarbonisation – are not addressed in the post-COVID recovery.
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Will future generations bear the COVID bill?
Victoria Tichá | September 13, 2021Governments are spending at unprecedented levels. Where does this money come from, and are governments saddling young people with too much debt?
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Understanding Australia’s tax concessions to attract overseas talent
Anton Lucanus | September 8, 2021Australian expats abroad are currently paying tax to foreign tax authorities. They have suddenly become the focus for Australia’s 2021-22 Federal Budget.
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Bad tempered steel
David Uren | August 31, 2021A recent report in China’s Global Times newspaper suggests Chinese steel mills are imposing discriminatory cuts to exports to Australia as a new element in the continuing campaign of economic coercion against us.