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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

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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

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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Reserve Bank Governor Michele Bullock has a dilemma.

The rest of the world is cutting interest rates, so why aren’t we?

The latest national accounts show an economy on the edge of a recession. Don’t blame the Reserve Bank – it’s responding to the symptoms of a problem long in the making.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
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How GPT (not that one) could be a painless fix for our inflation problem

I asked ChatGPT what its chances were of improving productivity in Australia – if it was a betting man. Here’s what it said.

  • Millie Muroi
Australians are paying the price for CFMEU tactics that add billions to the nation’s building costs and weaken productivity.

Australians pay the price for CFMEU tactics, figures show

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has turned the dispute over the CFMEU into a political test over the cost of living, claiming the union has added 30 per cent to the cost of major projects.

  • David Crowe and Angus Thompson
Photograph shows the sun setting over Katoomba this evening. NSW will turn it’s clocks forward one hour as daylight saving starts tomorrow night. October 6 2018. Photograph by Dean Sewell.

‘There’s no benefit’: Call to cut back daylight saving in NSW

NSW should knock two months off daylight saving and let it run from November to March because post-pandemic work habits have largely made it redundant, critics say.

  • Catherine Naylor

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