Judith Sloan

Judith SloanContributing Economics Editor

Judith Sloan is an economist and company director. She holds degrees from the University of Melbourne and the London School of Economics. She has held a number of government appointments, including Commissioner of the Productivity Commission; Commissioner of the Australian Fair Pay Commission; and Deputy Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 19: Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Philip Lowe, makes a speech on March 19, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. The Reserve Bank of Australia has cut official interest rates to a record low of 0.25% in a bid to protect the economy from the financial fallout of the global COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)

Why new RBA boss must stand up to Labor

It’s not sufficient for the government to claim monetary and fiscal policy are working in the same direction. Clearly they are not.

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Wednesday 20th July 2022. The Australian.The Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Philip Lowe watching the address by the Treasurer Jim Chalmers at The Australian Strategic Business Forum in partnership with BHP.Photograph by Arsineh Houspian

Stressed economy can’t afford political games over RBA

It’s understandable Treasury didn’t want to over-estimate the surplus, but to be wrong by this much is a complete embarrassment.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 5: Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese, Senator Katy Gallagher and Minister for the Arts Tony Burke address the media during a visit to the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Get ready for a lawyers’ picnic as IR changes kick in

Labor’s proposed workplace reforms will overturn settled arrangements across industry. The costs for employers to comply will be immense.

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Prime Minister Paul Keating in Adelaide during Federal election campaign, 17 Feb 1993. In his 40-minute press conference in the Adelaide Convention Centre.

Labor can’t escape bad policy ideas

It was Paul Keating who said good policy was good politics. Sadly, it’s a lesson that largely has been ignored by politicians for nearly two decades.

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Gothenburg, Sweden - April 11, 2019: Uber eats delivery person carrying food to people who order by online app

Shutting down gig economy won’t ease tough times

The way to understand the Albanese government’s forthcoming tranche of industrial relations changes is to recognise its strongly held view that the only legitimate form of employment is permanent.

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Treasurer Cameron Dick with his budget, Parliament House, Brisbane. Picture: Liam Kidston

Same old story of debt, excess as coffers overflow with royalties

The real story in the Queensland budget handed down by Cameron Dick is the surging revenue from coal royalties.

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Hundreds of workers walked off the job today in Brisbane in protest of wage theft, sham contracting and insolvency causing a CBD traffic nightmare., Organisers CFMEU. The angry mob converged on the Waterfront Place where they wrote profanities on the windows and smashed a glass door. Police were quick to move the crowd away from the front of the building and the broken glass. The Waterfront Place is where the office of the Federal Government is located - photo Lyndon Mechielsen

Labor’s push for pay rises will cost us dearly

Jim Chalmers must know that wage increases without productivity rises will lock in inflation, or possibly accelerate the rate.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos June 7, 2023: Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers holds a press conference in Sydney. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Jeremy Piper

Chalmers can’t have his policy cake and eat it too

What the Treasurer doesn’t seem to appreciate is that unless all instruments of economic policy – monetary, fiscal and wages – are acting in unison, the costs of getting inflation back under control will be much higher.

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People queue up outside a Centrelink office in Melbourne on April 20, 2020, which delivers a range of government payments and services for retirees, the unemployed, families, carers and parents amongst others. - A report from the Grattan Institute predicts between 14 and 26 per cent of Australian workers could be out of work as a direct result of the coronavirus shutdown, and the crisis will have an enduring impact on jobs and the economy for years to come. (Photo by William WEST / AFP)

Wage generosity fuels inflation, economic trauma

Businesses are likely to be hit from a number of directions: higher wages, higher debt servicing costs, ongoing inflation and weaker demand.

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Treasurer Joe Hockey and Finance minister Mathias Corrman are seen during a picture opportunity preparing to deliver MYEFO at Parliament House in Canberra, Monday, Dec. 15, 2014. Treasurer Joe Hockey will hand down the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook today. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Is delivering a tough budget a thing of the past?

Jim Chalmers claims the recent budget was tough but also responsible. But by setting out average spending figures across six years the federal Treasurer was gilding the lily.

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