Australia’s inconvenient truth: Are we really in mortgage stress?
Despite the narrative of high interest rates crippling borrowers, most mortgage customers didn’t seize on the February rate cut to reduce their monthly payments....
Category : Business / The economy
Debt and deficit: Labor’s budget naysayers ignore the cold hard facts
When it comes to the budget, there’s been an element of good management as well as good luck, for which Chalmers and Albanese deserve some...
Want more economics students? Drop the obsession with maths
Fewer students are studying economics at high school, and few of those go onto a dedicated economics course at university. And that’s a problem....
The public agrees on climate, so why can’t our politicians?
A remarkable degree of public consensus has developed over the past few years. If only our major parties could agree....
Europe unveils its imperfect plan to survive winter
Europe is focusing more on getting through the approaching winter rather than trying to address some crucial long-term issues as it continues to grapple with...