The fake 'crisis' of high wages
Tweaking skilled migrant visas won't fix the damage done by decades of harmful industrial-relations policies.
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Richard Denniss
Dr Richard Denniss is chief economist at The Australia Institute, a Canberra think tank, www.tai.org.au
The perils of promising perfection
If any politicians are interested, here are five steps to prevent blackouts and provide affordable energy.
No corruption? A watchdog will help anyway
We're told often we have nothing to fear if we have nothing to hide. It's time to apply that to government too.
Where did all the gas go?
In 2007 the gas industry set about a long-term and very expensive plan to push our gas prices up significantly.
Blackouts and prawns
"Peak energy demand" has nothing to do with a lack of "baseload" power, whatever the government says.
Back in the day, they called it lying
Barnaby Joyce was "post-truth" way before it was cool. In fact, few politicians were better prepared for the new era of "alternative facts" than Barnaby Joyce.
Good debt, bad debt, and ugly politics
This week Scott Morrison killed off yet another of Tony Abbott's slogans. The budget emergency is now dead, and the Treasurer assures us that we now live in the era of 'good debt' and bad debt'.
Now that we know where wage stagnation can lead
The lives of more and more Australians are becoming precarious and insecure.
Why some jobs are more equal than others
As this week's focus on the hundreds of jobs that will be lost when Hazelwood shuts down shows, some job losses appear to be more important than others.
Politicians pulling funny faces as winds change
After 16 months of inaction the first of two new wind farms have just been commissioned as a result of the ACT's 100 per cent renewable energy target.
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