Michael Keating. The Budget – possible additional measures.
Michael Keating. This article discusses the extra stimulus which should be incorporated in the October Budget, and what form that stimulus should take. In...
Editorial Peter Whiting. Sustainable Development Goals point to how to address post-Covid reforms.
Photo 70th Anniversary of UN, display of SDGs. UN photo/Cia Pak 2015. flickr cc. 4 June 2020 With the easing of Covid-19 restrictions coming...
Michael Keating. When should the budget deficit be unwound?
Photo Depression revisited. futureatlas.com/blog. flickr cc. 4 June 2020. Australia’s present budget deficit is unprecedented, but it represents an appropriate response to the recession. The...
Bruce Duncan. On resetting our economic compass after Covid.
Photo Public Housing Rubik’s cube minimalism. Mathew Perkins 2016, flickr cc. 4 June 2020. Greatly concerned about the social and economic consequences of the...
Editorial Peter Whiting. Covid-19 – return to a ‘normal’ world, or a radically different one?
7 May 2020 By now, we’re all familiar with the rationale that we’re undergoing these Covid-19 limits to our personal freedoms and employment in...
Michael Keating. Economic policy post Covid-19 Part 1.
7 April 2020. This article considers economic strategy post-Covid-19. In Part 1, it is argued that the principal requirement will be to raise the...
Michael Keating. Economic policy post Covid-19 Part 2.
7 May 2020. Here, I address (i) how best to support aggregate demand, and (ii) how quickly to restore budget balance. In Part 1...
Editorial. Peter Whiting. Critical choices face Australia & the world.
Peter Whiting Posted 7 April 2020 It has all happened so quickly that it’s difficult to take it all in. The changes to our...
Michael Keating. The Third Economic response to the Coronavirus.
Posted 1 April 2020 The latest economic response to the coronavirus is the third economic package announced in less than three weeks. Clearly, more...
How good is Scott Morrison?
Michael Keating. By any standard, Scott Morrison’s Government has a very threadbare policy agenda. Furthermore, the Government seems resistant to new ideas, whether from...