Scott Morrison’s appointment of Michael Brennan as the head of the Productivity Commission was seen as political,but Brennan is far more open-minded,widely read and persuasive than his predecessors.
The Prime Minister will announce his Closing the Gap plan on Thursday morning,but still it will take many decades to close the chasms that separate First Nations and non-Indigenous Australians.
The pandemic has delayed progress on the new national plan for closing the gap between Indigenous Australians and the rest of the community.
The first analysis of Closing the Gap data has been released,a year after a historic agreement was reached to reduce the inequality faced by Indigenous people.
Today on Please Explain,senior economics writer Jessica Irvine joins Nathanael Cooper to discuss how working from home has impacted productivity.
Leading economists say an increase in the number of workers logging in from home is unlikely to harm the nation’s productivity,while also delivering a big overall boost to happiness.
Plans to force NDIS participants into controversial independent assessments to cut costs have been scrapped after the federal government could not get the agreement of states and territories.
A fall in productivity growth over the past decade has cost every Australian $11,500 in lost income,eating into our standard of living.
Chronic undersupply and building regulations make property prices prohibitive for young Australians,and yet the evidence shows we can build more densely without compromising neighbourhoods.
Manufacturers would have to provide consumers and independent repairers with access to tools,spare parts and product manuals under a Productivity Commission plan to reduce landfill and make it cheaper to fix products.
Governments have played down concerns about government debt because of low interest rates. But the Productivity Commission has some concerns.