The economic numbers game - it's not as bad as you might think

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Just about everyone who doesn't look at the numbers - which is most people - is convinced the economy is 'slowing'.

It's kind of a miracle: 25 years of economic growth

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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.

Super tax fairness is the key to budget repair

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.

Behind the 'fourth way' in cutting carbon emissions

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.

Foreign investment, the economic stimulus we love to hate

If foreign investment in Australian businesses is so unpopular with so many people, why do we persist with it?

Preachers of innovation should start by healing themselves

Everyone accepts the importance of innovation and agile thinking but, as with most professions, it doesn't come easy to economic practitioners.

Australia and China, a changing partnership

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?

Why Treasury is wrong on deficits and debt

We're already back to a balanced recurrent budget. So why so much hand-wringing?

Why the era of economic reform has ended

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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.