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Cowardly politics is robbing our children blind. It’s time to be brave

Whoever wins the May 3 federal election, this is their challenge: dare to end decades of intergenerational theft.

  • Ken Henry

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Working from home is linked with lower wage growth, higher productivity and happier staff.

The real truth on productivity: The bosses aren’t trying hard enough

Businesses have done little to improve their productivity, relying instead on legal loopholes to bolster their profits.

  • Ross Gittins
Elon Musk with the chainsaw he was given by Argentinian President Javier Milei at a recent conference in the US.

Does Elon Musk actually know what efficiency is?

The billionaire’s quest for maximum efficiency is making people less efficient, and will cost Americans far more than he’s trying to save. How is this good business?

  • Victoria Devine
Illustration by Dionne Gain

Life is a highway, and Australia is stuck in second gear

If the Australian economy were a car, it would be Volkswagen bus. But if our living standards are to improve, it needs to purr like a Lamborghini.

  • Shane Wright
Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

A strong cup of coffee could solve our productivity problem

It’s been a problem since the GFC, and now the Productivity Commission is taking a new approach to economic solutions: crowdsourcing.

  • Shane Wright
A skills shortage? Many of the skilled workers the nation needs are already living here.

620,000 workers who could solve our skills crisis are hiding in plain sight

Hundreds of thousands of overseas-trained workers living in Australia have the skills we desperately need. We just need to activate them.

  • Melinda Cilento and Violet Roumeliotis
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America and Australia tell a tale of two pandemics, and their political outcomes

While Australians challenged fireworks cancellations last week, the richest man in the world was busy lobbying America’s president-elect for a shutdown.

  • Sean Kelly

The nation has lost its horsepower. Why? Because our leaders are too scared to act

The mid-year economic update is a dismal portrait of a mediocre nation, but both sides of politics are culpable.

  • David Crowe
Treasurer Jim Chalmers will reveal plans to offer state governments extra cash so they undertake reforms that will improve the economy.

Chalmers’ $900m carrot to convince states to rip up red tape

Treasurer Jim Chalmers will unveil plans, mirroring reforms used by Paul Keating and John Howard, to get the economy running faster and cheaper.

  • Shane Wright
Multitasking will never be effective or efficient, according to experts.

Multitasking is impossible. Here’s how to actually get things done

No, you’re not good at multitasking. Here’s what experts recommend instead.

  • Shona Hendley

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