Labelling knock-off souvenirs as “Aboriginal designs” may not be illegal,but it’s robbing Indigenous artists of their share of a market worth $250 million.
The October budget downgraded Australia’s assumed productivity growth rate. It translates into lower living standards and poorer wages for everyone.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers will on Tuesday reveal a joint government-private sector accord to build up to 1 million homes across the country.
The federal government is looking at a new way of charging motorists to use the roads,with the states and territories already moving to road-user charges.
The skills shortage list for migrants would be ditched and businesses given the right to bring workers from overseas at higher wages under a proposal.
Extending the school day and letting students progress based on ability rather than age are some radical recommendations by the Productivity Commission to improve Australia’s education system.
The nearly $3 billion given to first home buyers does the opposite of improving housing affordability.
Tax reform and changing government services have been put on the Coalition’s economic agenda by shadow treasurer Angus Taylor.
It is a structural oddity that has placed Australia as an outrider on the OECD world stage.
AI and big data sound like something from dystopian sci-fi films,but the Productivity Commission says without making use of them our living standards will fall.
In Australia output of goods and services per person is about seven times higher than it was 120 years ago at Federation.