Stress matters, but our leaders no longer care
There is much, much more to a good life than jobs and growth, and the head of the treasury ought to know it.
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Peter Martin
Peter Martin is the Economics Editor for The Age.
Why you may never end up paying off your house
Low inflation has 'tilted' our mortgages.
What's mining ever done for us? Just wait
A good chunk of Scott Morrison's budget problems could have vanished, just as they vanished for Peter Costello during mining boom at the start of the century.
What if the banks were forced to treat us like everyone else?
Australia's bank chiefs could be forgiven for thinking they've survived the worst, says Peter Martin.
Why credit card interest rates are so high
If the Reserve Bank's official cash rate is 1.5 per cent and you can borrow for a home at 4.4 per cent, why are credit rates as high as 21 per cent?
Stress. The real reason our extraordinary low rate of Newstart is dangerous
You'd be forgiven for thinking that money matters to everyone except those who don't have it.
The extraordinary costs of detaining asylum seekers are more than financial
For that price – $1570 per day – we could put them up in the Hyatt and pay them the pension 15 times over.
Why going cashless is the next next moral challenge
Reckon we're cashless? Think again.
Dastyari and a ghost from his past
Sam Dastyari had been in the Senate for mere months when a ghost from his past came back to haunt him.
Cutting Newstart was a mistake, one the government should own up to
We are about to have two classes of Newstart recipients, existing ones on very low incomes, getting around $13,720 plus $4.40 a week, and newer ones on even less, getting only $13,720.
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