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There can be nothing Jim Chalmers will hear next month that he could not have learned from company reports and a friendly meeting with the ACTU.

Unity push ahead of Chalmers’ economic summit

With the three-day roundtable a month away, Labor is rushing to form a written agenda with themes and policy areas to guide the talks.

  • Paul Sakkal

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Australian workers have been robbed of $500,000 by the slowdown in productivity over the past 25 years, according to former Treasury head Ken Henry.

Australians robbed of half a million dollars each: Henry

Anthony Albanese is holding a three-day talkfest next month to find ways to lift productivity levels. Ken Henry says poor productivity has already cost Australians $500,000.

  • Shane Wright and Mike Foley
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Ideas to kick-start growth, Treasurer? Here are five

Average Australians have triple the income and more leisure time than in 1960. Now, greater productivity can accelerate such advances.

  • Danielle Wood
Governor Michele Bullock is expected by all of the nation’s biggest banks to announce an interest rate cut next week.

We didn’t get that rate relief, but Australia remains the lucky country

By several measures Australia is sitting in a sweet spot relative to many – if not most – other countries.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Big business wants provisions for workers to get time off instead of overtime pay.

We like to hate big businesses but they get one thing right

A 4.30am text from an airline is no fun way to be woken up. But it got me thinking.

  • Millie Muroi
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Environmental law reforms are critical to productivity

More than two decades of poor productivity growth has cut 40 per cent off the average income of Australian workers. The government must act.

  • Ken Henry
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Treasurer Jim Chalmers admits the progressive side of politics is getting in its own way, strangling its ideas.

Good ideas strangled by red tape: Treasurer to crack down on bureaucracy

Jim Chalmers says boosting productivity is central to his economic agenda. In an exclusive interview, he maps out how he hopes to do it.

  • Shane Wright
Treasurer Jim Chalmers speaks at the National Press Club on Wednesday.

Is this Gentle Jim’s JFK moment? If it is, he’s overlooked one thing

Treasurer Jim Chalmers, anxious to raise the bar on reform, is asking us to be more than ourselves. But can he be more than himself?

  • Peter Hartcher
Treasurer Jim Chalmers

The big tax changes likely to cross the treasurer’s desk

From abolishing stamp duty to slashing income tax, here are some ideas expected to be presented to Jim Chalmers after he opened the door to tax changes.

  • Millie Muroi
Banks are working through regulatory implications as agentic AI becomes part of the standard financial services tech stack.

The world of work has been transformed. What happens next is still up to us

What sort of society do we want to live in when artificial intelligence hits its stride? That is the conversation we need now.

  • Aruna Sathanapally

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