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Our youth jobs report card: are you people for real?
The earlier we identify and help kids at risk of doing poorly in education, training and employment, the more we help the community as well as the kids.
Ross Gittins is economics editor of the SMH and an economic columnist for The Age. His books include Gittins' Guide to Economics, Gittinomics and The Happy Economist.
The earlier we identify and help kids at risk of doing poorly in education, training and employment, the more we help the community as well as the kids.
Just about everyone who doesn't look at the numbers - which is most people - is convinced the economy is 'slowing'.
One way to be a loser is not to have the wit to realise when you are winning. Being a winner but not knowing it isn't all that gratifying.
Scott Morrison can use scare tactics in seeking greater support for his task of getting the budget back on track, but he'll do better by spreading the needed sacrifice more fairly.
Just as they say there's more than one way to skin a cat, so there are a lot of ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
If foreign investment in Australian businesses is so unpopular with so many people, why do we persist with it?
Everyone accepts the importance of innovation and agile thinking but, as with most professions, it doesn't come easy to economic practitioners.
You don't need me to tell you we lucked out when we sited our island continent not too far from China. But will our luck hold?
We're already back to a balanced recurrent budget. So why so much hand-wringing?
In case you haven't noticed, you're staring at the end of the era of economic reform. It has ended because it's come to be seen by many voters as no more than a cover for advancing the interests of the rich and powerful at their expense.
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