Jim Chalmers is all smiles before his budget speech today.

Money can’t buy everything,but Chalmers can buy an inflation reduction

The treasurer’s use of new policy tools to solve new kinds of inflation has enraged many commentators,but the anger of those stuck in the past doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be looking to the future.

  • Richard Denniss

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A simple question for politicians:do you want home prices to rise or fall. The answer is complicated - and usually involves the words ‘affordable’..

We know how to lower home prices,but our political leaders won’t have it

The International Monetary Fund is right:Australia’s home prices are far too high,and they are likely to fall. But if they fall sharply,just watch our governments prop them back up.

  • Richard Denniss
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers will jointly lead the jobs summit.

Liz Truss’ spectacular tax backflip gives Albanese a chance to do the same

Anthony Albanese has a unique opportunity to radically reshape Australian voters’ understanding of what it is to be a responsible economic manager.

  • Richard Denniss
Anthony Albanese says he has been more accountable than Scott Morrison during the campaign.

Breaking promises isn’t easy. Keeping the wrong ones is just as painful

When the economic facts change,so too must economic policy.

  • Richard Denniss
We need to talk about public spending.

Government will get bigger,but will it get better? That’s up to us

There needs to be a genuine public debate about what Australians want more and less of - and an end to our politics of fear around public spending.

  • Richard Denniss
The Liddell and Bayswater coal-fired power stations in the Hunter Valley.

UN report rightfully shames Australia over fossil fuel plans

Australia must start cutting its production of fossil fuels if the world is to meet its Paris target for reducing carbon emissions.

  • Fergus Green,Richard Denniss andRichie Merzian
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As Admiral Ackbar from Star Wars would say,'it's a trap'.

It's a trap:Why the long-con on company tax cuts?

Why do we need a $65 billion corporate tax cut right now? What's the rush?

  • Richard Denniss
'It's the vibe'.

Richard Denniss:'Sovereign risk'econobabble has lost all meaning

The phrase is simply used to dress up the self-interest of powerful groups as being in the national interest.

  • Richard Denniss
Jennifer Westacott,Chief Executive of the Business Council of Australia,addresses the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra on Wednesday 11 October 2017. fedpol Photo:Alex Ellinghausen

Why Australia's business community only cares about budget deficits sometimes

Big business doesn't care whether there's a surplus. It just wants tax cuts and other direct aid.

  • Richard Denniss
Protestors gather at Federal Parliament this week to oppose the Adani coal mine.

Adani coal mine:Matt Canavan's symbolic war that went wrong

The Adani mine has become a symbol of the Coalition's ideological confusion.

  • Richard Denniss