Childcare is not a welfare handout. It is an investment in boosting productivity at a time when the economy needs every scrap of help it can get.

A range of half-measures will doom young Australians to a prolonged post-virus burden.

Australia must give primacy to national security, but lessons of the past show it does not have to destroy the strong relationship with Beijing built over five decades.

Scrapping a rise in the super guarantee will expand the future welfare state and force up personal taxes. Is that what conservatives want?

A team of economists should be working on how to create the long-term support that the economy might need in case a preventive shot or cure for COVID-19 proves elusive.

If Australia resumes mediocre growth after the pandemic passes, our youngest and most vulnerable citizens will pay the biggest price.

The diplomatic deep-freeze is just the start. Beijing is already laying the groundwork to ditch its reliance on Australian exports.

Bond sales to the Reserve Bank would allow stimulus to continue without busting the budget or raising taxes.

One way of avoiding a W-shaped recession is by giving more migrant workers a pathway to permanent settlement.

Women returning to work are faced with punishing disincentives in the childcare system. It is in dire need of review.

A cold turkey ending to JobKeeper and JobSeeker would mean a double recession. But that is a risk that the government can avoid.