Beyond the effects on measured productivity growth, when it comes to shared prosperity, we also need to look at the role of pure profits.

By arbitrarily and wrongly defining full employment, the RBA will cause misery for vulnerable working Australians and small business owners that is entirely avoidable.

Australia is championing free trade at APEC and the G20 meetings. China’s practical support will now be critical.

If Martin Place insists on holding the cash rate until unemployment rises substantially, it risks plunging Australia into a painful recession.

The global trading system of trade rules faces its gravest crisis since its inception. There is a way out and Australia can help.

Modern elections have become a race to rule policies out, not a way of launching big ideas.

Under the Coalition, Australian manufacturing would face a decade of uncertainty and taxpayers would finance the renationalisation of electricity generation.

Leading economic indicators have to be our guide, and they are all pointing towards an avoidable recession.

The recessionistas out there should be listening to the RBA deputy governor’s warnings against overconfidence in predicting the economy.

The resumed annual face-to-face meeting of government and industry has been crucial to stabilising the relationship.

The Reserve Bank is taking its dual mandate seriously and seems to be ignoring the incessant clamouring for another rise in the cash rate.

The prime minister has to shrug off culture wars and Green taunts to focus relentlessly on an improving economy.

Brexit, MAGA trade policies, and the Coalition’s nuclear power push will fail because they make no economic sense.

The new code offers the best of both a mandatory and voluntary system of compliance for the supermarket giants.

Talk of a need to increase the cash rate is misguided – especially so when the main culprits behind the 3.6 per cent inflation rate are identified.

Australia prospered in an open postwar world economy. But a new generation has less faith in it.

The climate movement needs to ask itself what is worse: gas in the new energy mix, or coal that lingers for longer.

The Reserve Bank should not be firing up its interest rate models on the strength of inflation that is now steadily dropping into target range.

The interim report seeks to prevent big supermarkets from abusing their market power while rejecting populist policies such as forced divestiture of stores.

The opposition is more interested in keeping the Nationals in the tent than carbon emissions at bay.