Forget what you've heard about coal. Electricity prices are going up regardless
I'll give it to you cold. Electricity prices are going up.
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Peter Martin
Peter Martin is the Economics Editor for The Age.
What if the nerds are reading Trump right?
For economics nerds, there's no event more exciting than the annual meeting of the American Economic Association. Over three days in January, this year in Chicago, more than 13,000 of the very brightest cram into the one hotel to check out jobs, check out each other and swap the very latest research.
Why have our ministers got it in for the unemployed?
Using the disabled as a human shield to defend cuts to others is as dumb as it gets. Propagating fake news is worse.
There's a way out of our economic problems, it's not embracing Cory
So keen has Malcolm Turnbull become to appease his party's right wing that he is actually governing badly.
NAPLAN prepares us for neither the real world nor Trump
They key to convincing people appears to be repetition – the more often something is said, the more likely it is to be regarded as true.
High prices hurt. Why Sinodinos is under pressure over books
Strong governments stand up for little people.
Turnbull's fearful, pessimistic vision for Australia
Malcolm Turnbull and Donald Trump might be at loggerheads over the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but in other respects they’re in sync.
Not born to run. Why Springsteen was lucky
No-one does it by themselves, especially not Springsteen.
How Centrelink unleashed a weapon of math destruction
The most frightening thing about the Centrelink malware debacle is the verve with which the government embraced it.
Centrelink's robo-debacle is a litany of inhuman errors
The Centrelink robo-debt debacle will dwarf that of the bungled census, for which the Prime Minister declared that heads would roll.
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