10 September 2020
Our Threatening K-Shaped Corona Recession
Australia is emerging from the COVID-19 lockdown measures not as one, but two separate nations comprised of the economic, cultural and political elite embodied in the public sector on one hand, and mainstream Australia embodied in the productive, private sector on the other. The two Australias have emerged over time. Before coronavirus arrived in this country, those in the private
4 June 2020
Cut Red Tape, Green Tape And Taxes – As Only The Private Sector Can Get Us Out Of Recession
All eyes were on the headline economic growth figure in the national accounts released on Wednesday, which shows the first quarter of negative growth since 2011. Despite the government claiming that the economy was in good health before COVID-19 arrived in Australia, upsetting 29 years of continuous economic growth, the truth is that the economy has been in the doldrums for quite
8 March 2019
Shorten’s Alternative IR Reality Based On Trumpian Alternative Facts
This week the Prime Minister got his wish. On Tuesday, in his speech to The Australian Financial Review Business Summit, Scott Morrison wanted to get the media talking about the risk of a recession under a Labor government. On Wednesday we learned Australia was actually already in a recession, at least as measured by economic growth per head. The release
