October 2024
Our one-trick pony economy can’t keep behaving like this
Population, employment, and government spending are growing faster than the economy can absorb. It is the spending that has to give for a while.
July 2024
Why beating up on private motorway companies is short-sighted
Privately owned motorway companies must provide a superior service to motorists, or they simply go out of business.
April 2023
Why Australia must rebuild its lost industrial base
Now is the time to be bold again and reinvent the country’s economy with a coordinated national industry policy.
April 2021
The federal government is walking a budget tightrope
This is not the time for austerity, but nor is it the time to bake in community expectations of unaffordable support.
July 2020
Pandemic will change work for the better
The permanent shift to working from home fast tracked by COVID-19 will mean less crowded transport and more productive employees.
October 2019
How we ended up with a workplace system that kills jobs
Paul Keating hoped for a simpler, enterprise-based industrial relations system. The current workplace regime is a long way from that.
September 2019
Companies deliver value, not virtue
The job of directors is to look after shareholders' money, not parade unrelated social causes.