There is a widely acknowledged problem in economics called the ‘absence of a starting condition’. Most economic commentary ...

As the Reserve Bank cuts rates, we should also cut political resistance to affordable, well-targeted ideas. The productivity ...

"These are not healthy figures indicative of a strong and growing economy," Roy Morgan CEO Michele Levine says.

Public spending was significantly reduced but was not matched by an increase in business investment which, as a proportion of ...

According to the latest ABS figures, GDP rose in the March quarter by 0.2 per cent and 1.3 per cent year-on-year. But that anaemic growth was not enough to keep Australia out of a per capita ...

Australia faces a return to a per capita ... albeit starting from a low point. “If GDP per capita was to decline in the first quarter, we would expect it to pick up pretty quickly in the months ...

Australia's economy barely grew in the first quarter as consumers stayed stubbornly frugal and government spending, the engine of activity last year, sputtered to a standstill, underlining the need ...