Peter Martin

Peter Martin is the economics editor for The Age, based at Parliament House

If you were going to make life much more difficult for people on welfare, you'd want to be sure there was a point.

Who wouldn't rather be a man? Especially a man like Keith, who makes things happen.

Trading human lives for human misery is a difficult balancing act.

Most of us have better things to do than juggling boxes of receipts.

Forced to conduct a survey that will be unreliable and possibly wrong, the ABS is fighting back.

Some things you can't blame Malcolm Turnbull for: the state of the NBN is one of them.

Most of us would need hundred of dollars per year to change electricity suppliers.

We're all of us a bit foreign, apart from the few First Australians whose families have avoided intermarriage.

What is it that drives generally sane men, women and children to swoop, leap and sway to the music of Kate Bush?

Prepare for a shock. On July 1 electricity prices jumped 15 to 20 per cent.

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