Albanese may find permanent marker easier to erase than his GST promise
A permanent marker is, by design, very difficult to erase, but a damning new report suggests Anthony Albanese…
WA Premier Roger Cook lashes ‘east-coast clowns’ over interim Productivity Commission GST report
Western Australia’s premier Roger Cook has lashed out at “east-coast clowns” — the people who authored an explosive…
Closing the Gap data reveals rise in First Nations youth held in detention without sentence
Under the vast outback sky of Mount Isa, community leader Corina James is a familiar face at the…
Not satire: The Utopia-style regulations holding Australia back from building homes
A local council tells a property developer they need more trees for their new building, but the local…
Tie property tax changes to income tax cuts, productivity chief says
Labor should funnel any revenue from scaling back negative gearing or capital gains tax concessions into income tax…
‘Too big to ignore’ housing problem top priority for productivity commissioner
Fixes to improve housing supply to make home ownership more affordable are “going to take decades to filter…
What is a healthy birth weight? Urgency to close the gap for all babies
As a first-time mother, Whitney Fordham was worried when she learned she was pregnant. “I was scared about…
Business Council’s ‘competitiveness index’ more of same rubbish
It’s been a while since Australia’s worst rent-seeker lobby group, the Business Council of Australia, issued one of…
Be bold in May budget, roundtable guests urge Chalmers
It’s been six months since Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ productivity roundtable and the economists, business heads and union figures…
Queensland government to change construction industry after inquiry finds productivity declining
The Queensland government has agreed to make sweeping changes across the construction industry, as an inquiry finds the…
National mental health agreement failing, Productivity Commission finds
A landmark mental health agreement signed by federal, state and territory governments three years ago is failing, a…
Federal government rules out changing copyright law to give AI companies free rein
Labor has ruled out changing copyright laws to give tech giants free rein to train artificial intelligence models…