The angst about our productivity? Totally unproductive

• COMMENT

It's time to take a step back because people who should know better won't stop going into panic mode.

Government losing its resistance to rent-seeking businesses

I'm starting to suspect the federal government – of whatever colour – has lost its ability to control its own spending.

We're being misled on apprenticeship 'crisis'

• COMMENT

If we're to believe what we're told, Australia's apprenticeship system is in crisis, with plunging numbers following cuts in government support.

Why chasing KPIs can be bad for business

• COMMENT

Use metrics as a substitute for thought rather than as an aid to hard thinking and there's a high chance it'll bring you undone.

Here's the truth of the matter about unemployment

• COMMENT

So, the Australian Bureau of Statistics told us this week, the rate of unemployment fell a click to 5.6 per cent in July. Trouble is, most people know the official unemployment rate understates the extent of the problem.

Wage growth will strengthen, and soon

• COMMENT

There's been a sound economic justification – the need to restore our industries' international price competitiveness - for our weak wage growth over the past three or four years.

The award for weak wages growth goes to ...

• COMMENT

Since we've all got so excited about the weak growth in wages, let me ask you a personal question: How much do you know about how wages are set?

Higher employment our payoff for avoiding recession

When Boris Johnson, Britain's Foreign Minister, visited Oz lately, he implied that our record 26-year run of uninterrupted economic growth was owed largely to the good fortune of our decade-long resources boom.

Jobs being taken by robots? Where's your evidence

• COMMENT

One problem to remember before we work ourselves into a complete tizz over the War on Wages.