Jessica Irvine

@Jess_Irvine

Senior writer, numbers nerd and policy wonk at The Sydney Morning Herald

Sydney
Joined September 2009

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  1. Well, isn't that just the zeitgeist?

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    Looking for a fresh start to 2016? Don't miss on the economics of New Year's resolutions

  3. An economic rationalist's guide to Christmas presents via

  4. I'm accessing Stan through Apple TV and Netflix through Playstation, so that may make a difference to load time?

  5. And thus endeth my trawl through Appendix A of oh, one more: $300k for QLD banana producers to combat Panama disease

  6. Taxpayers will donate $47mil to the producers of two major Hollywood blockbusters Alien: Covenant & Thor: Ragnarok to be filmed here

  7. ScoMo gives truckies a free ride, costing the budget $118m over two years to freeze the road user charge

  8. Your parental leave pay is taxable and reduces your family tax benefit but previously it was excluded from the Newstart and DSP income test.

  9. ScoMo targets disabled & jobless new mums and dads by including parental leave pay in the income test for Newstart and DSP

  10. ScoMo saves $2mil abolishing Bjorn Lomborg Centre and spends $2m for a National Wind Farm Commissioner

  11. Good graph for those wondering if we have a spending or a taxing problem: we have both

  12. At the with Martin Parkinson. I propose a drinking game: "innovation" = drink! Half a glass down already...

  13. Complacent, ill-prepared and in denial: Martin Parkinson didn't hold back in a recent paper via

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    It's time for men to adapt to what a modern economy and family life demand:

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      I'm a proud husband and father. Everything else is icing on my cake

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      Author The Advertising Effect. WA Under 12 chess champ. Consumer psychologist & Global CSO at C&P. Gruen The Project Mornings ABC Mindshift Good Thnx. Keynotes

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    Podcast from today's panel: FTA's: Transformative, terrible, or tedious?

  17. Beat the Sydney CBD heat and join us today for a panel on FTAs: transformative, terrible or tedious? hint: the later

  18. Despite their higher status, female managers suffer a bigger wage gap than lower paid workers via

  19. Sydney houses now cost 12 times annual household income. In 1975, it was just 4 times via

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