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Economics - 2006

Striking parallels: divergent paths

by Saul Eslake - 11/05/2006 - 3 comments

Joblessness and income inequality: has Australia taken the wrong turn?

by Fred Argy - 27/01/2006 - 54 comments

Creatively creating jobs

by Paul Dabrowski - 21/02/2006 - 13 comments

Research to excellence

by Gavin Moodie - 2/03/2006 - 3 comments

AWB scandal - suppliers beware!

by Andrew Hewett - 6/03/2006 - 20 comments

The not-so-secret foreign energy source

by Walt Brasch - 27/04/2006 - 5 comments

Jobs for Pacific Islanders or our own Aborigines?

by Helen Hughes - 19/10/2006 - 42 comments

Stern scare blunted by the figures

by Bjorn Lomborg - 8/11/2006 - 31 comments

Dancing on the ashes of Westpoint

by Scott Hickie - 14/11/2006 - 4 comments

Rewarding consumer behaviour

by Kevin Cox - 5/09/2006 - 4 comments

Hard choices on the future of the land

by Andrew Bartlett - 6/11/2006 - 19 comments

No time for tunnel vision

by Jago Dodson and Neil Sipe - 28/04/2006 - 4 comments

DNA rip-off is patent folly

by Julian Cribb - 20/09/2006 - 1 comment

Abolishing negative gearing a recipe for disaster

by Elizabeth Crouch - 20/02/2006 - 24 comments

Interest won't rate

by Clive Bean - 7/08/2006 - 14 comments

A time bomb on our doorstep

by Peter Curson - 12/09/2006

Overpriced and over here: Housing affordability

by Damian Jeffree - 13/02/2006 - 41 comments

Weaning off welfare

by Andrew Murray - 28/06/2006 - 3 comments

Nuclear power: not green, clean or cheap

by Mark Diesendorf - 16/06/2006 - 59 comments

The budget delivers, even for single poets

by Tony Abbott - 31/05/2006 - 15 comments

Fifty years of ACOSS

by Philip Mendes - 28/12/2006 - 3 comments

No safe dose

by Bill Williams - 12/12/2006 - 12 comments

Water shortages: It's the population stupid!

by Tom Gosling - 15/02/2006 - 61 comments

Lacking in foresight

by Daniel Donahoo - 20/04/2006 - 10 comments

The contractual deficit and the future of governance

by Tom Balen - 9/01/2006 - 21 comments

An iron clad guarantee rusts quickly

by Tim Woodruff - 16/03/2006 - 8 comments

Santa Claus budget fails to deliver for future

by Lindsay Tanner - 24/05/2006 - 25 comments

Busting the boomers

by Damian Jeffree - 27/11/2006 - 39 comments

Too much economy

by Kym Durance - 30/05/2006 - 12 comments

Going for gold via the Eastern Bloc

by Greg Barns - 15/03/2006 - 14 comments

The glittering prospect of a Libyan gold rush

by Philip Eliason - 12/01/2006 - 2 comments

The economic case for tax reform

by Peter Jonson - 8/03/2006 - 12 comments

When will the music stop?

by Henry Thornton - 2/05/2006 - 16 comments

Two-pronged attack to give families a break

by Alex Sanchez - 11/05/2006 - 7 comments

Trading in housing futures

by Kim Carr - 31/07/2006 - 19 comments

Too little, too late

by Henry Thornton - 15/08/2006 - 12 comments

More work to be done in Sunshine State

by Des Moore - 28/08/2006 - 2 comments

Speaking about the value of creativity

by Ralph Kerle - 25/01/2006 - 5 comments

Curbing the political abuse of development approvals

by Alan Moran - 1/02/2006 - 10 comments

Pluck the goose, minimise the squealing, collect the golden eggs

by Alan Moran - 15/05/2006

We could do with a banana about now

by Des Moore - 17/05/2006 - 2 comments

Doing the hard yards to end whaling

by Sue Arnold - 24/01/2006 - 16 comments

Aiming to please - and failing

by Peter Saunders - 3/05/2006 - 12 comments

Putting 'development' back into Doha

by Andrew Hewett - 23/01/2006 - 8 comments

Lurching from one water crisis to the next

by Everald Compton - 21/02/2006 - 23 comments

Investments are critical for faster growth

by Brian Gomez - 27/06/2006

Lacklustre economic growth fails to take pressure off interest rates

by Saul Eslake - 15/09/2006 - 5 comments

Conveying credibilty

by Paul Dabrowski - 21/03/2006 - 2 comments

Water underfoot in WA

by Phil Playford - 7/02/2006 - 10 comments

State of the states

by Saul Eslake - 30/05/2006 - 13 comments

Some Labor states would rather rob the poor

by Saul Eslake - 21/03/2006 - 39 comments

All quiet on the eastern front

by Keith Suter - 26/04/2006

Labor misses the point and the Liberals just don’t get it

by John Tomlinson - 4/05/2006 - 23 comments

Selling Queensland to business

by Geoff Hines - 19/06/2006 - 6 comments

PNG economic record cheerless but future looks promising

by Brian Gomez - 8/08/2006

The beauty of more choices

by Mikayla Novak - 17/07/2006 - 22 comments

Soft power, hard decisions

by Lindsay Tanner - 22/03/2006 - 12 comments

Beazley’s plan to abolish AWAs makes sense

by Krystian Seibert - 18/07/2006 - 27 comments

Petrol price pressure

by Krystian Seibert - 18/08/2006 - 25 comments

It’s the economy, stupid - or is it?

by Roger Smith - 27/06/2006 - 7 comments

A sustainable footprint

by Barney Foran - 29/11/2006 - 13 comments

Collective bargaining balances collective capital

by Krystian Seibert - 10/10/2006

Power policy running on wind and sun

by Barry Cohen - 25/05/2006 - 35 comments

Manufacturing in Australia: critical, not terminal

by Celeste Howden - 8/12/2006 - 83 comments

Where was your courage, Treasurer?

by Neil Warren - 17/05/2006 - 3 comments

Left voices and the corporate media

by Tim Anderson - 18/12/2006 - 23 comments

Operation CSI on pedophilia

by Stephen Hagan - 5/06/2006 - 11 comments

The rebirth of Russian power

by Reg Little - 15/11/2006 - 5 comments

Disrupting the dominant narrative

by Corin McCarthy - 3/04/2006 - 9 comments

Privatising the Sunshine State

by Des Moore - 26/05/2006 - 18 comments

Mixed signals on free trade

by Greg Barns - 29/08/2006 - 1 comment

Greenback parity worth every cent

by Henry Thornton - 6/06/2006 - 10 comments

Privatising Australia's water

by Selwyn Johnston - 9/02/2006 - 25 comments

Assault on Australian workers' conditions

by Jim McDonald - 3/03/2006 - 28 comments

... And at least another ten years to undo the damage

by Lyn Allison - 2/03/2006 - 87 comments

Subdivide and conquer

by Warwick Temby - 12/09/2006 - 10 comments

A paper tiger

by Graham Cooke - 13/06/2006 - 6 comments

Australian aid: in the national interest

by Tim O'Connor and Kate Wheen - 17/02/2006 - 15 comments

No more excuses for trade

by Henry Thornton - 7/03/2006 - 3 comments

Why was Milton Friedman so influential?

by Des Moore - 1/12/2006 - 2 comments

Small town life-styles

by Lyn Allison - 28/09/2006 - 54 comments

Home ownership - dark side of the boom

by Kim Carr - 1/11/2006 - 43 comments

The price is too low for H2O

by Teri Etchells - 30/11/2006 - 35 comments

Gambling with science policy

by Julian Cribb - 27/12/2006 - 7 comments

Nuclear profits could cost us dear

by Christine Milne - 7/04/2006 - 72 comments

A budget to build beyond the boom

by Peter Burn - 8/05/2006 - 3 comments

From Mecca To Baghdad, Bakr to Bush

by Cameron Riley - 27/01/2006 - 15 comments

Manna or myopia? The 2006 Australian budget

by Mark McGovern - 15/05/2006 - 9 comments

Limited by nature

by Aila Keto - 22/06/2006 - 13 comments

Funding Australia’s move to renewable energies

by Kevin Cox - 28/11/2006 - 10 comments

No protection for contractors

by John Sutton - 31/03/2006 - 5 comments

Advancing equality

by Fred Argy - 4/05/2006 - 17 comments

Does high employment require high social inequality?

by Fred Argy - 3/08/2006 - 44 comments

Re-rigging the Outrigger

by Justin Liang - 4/10/2006 - 1 comment

Solving poverty

by John McKinnon - 1/11/2006 - 34 comments

The systematic erosion of public interest research

by Ian Lowe - 18/01/2006 - 7 comments

Political seas are changing fast

by Peter McMahon - 11/08/2006 - 26 comments

Mass sackings? Bull!

by Chris Monnox - 11/10/2006 - 50 comments

Don’t sacrifice workers on altar of climate change

by Jeremy Gilling, John Muscat and Rolly Smallacombe - 6/12/2006 - 18 comments

Medicare under threat

by Beth Mohle - 7/03/2006 - 25 comments

New times need new ideas

by Peter McMahon - 23/03/2006 - 11 comments

Uneconomic power

by Steve Shallhorn - 30/05/2006 - 58 comments

Australian manufacturing swamped by the Chinese tsunami?

by Greg Barns - 18/01/2006 - 67 comments

Tragedy of the oceans

by Meryl Williams - 24/01/2006 - 4 comments

No opportunities on the property ladder

by Alan Moran - 23/08/2006 - 61 comments

Insight into teachers' merit pay rises

by Mercurius Goldstein - 2/10/2006 - 10 comments

Development levies, stamp duties, and housing affordability

by Gavin Putland - 3/11/2006 - 6 comments

The economic outlook for 2006

by Peter Jonson - 17/01/2006 - 13 comments

Free Trade Agreement - time to criticise big brother

by Sebastian De Brennan - 22/02/2006 - 8 comments

Innovation rules

by Thomas Barlow - 18/05/2006 - 4 comments

Eye on the ball

by Henry Thornton - 5/09/2006

The ruse of farming 'roos

by Ian Mott - 16/02/2006 - 33 comments

Is the ANZAC relationship dissolving into irrelevance?

by Graham Cooke - 23/05/2006 - 13 comments

The politics of 'empowerment'

by Corin McCarthy - 7/07/2006 - 28 comments

Milton Friedman, economic competition and poverty

by Harry Throssell - 18/12/2006 - 33 comments

Losing our cheap energy birthrights

by Alan Moran - 20/11/2006 - 7 comments

Inflation keeps Reserve on edge

by Henry Thornton - 5/12/2006 - 4 comments

World of the workforce is changing for the better

by Bob Day - 31/03/2006 - 18 comments

Aussie economy powers on

by Henry Thornton - 4/07/2006 - 3 comments

The Cairns Group: a 20th anniversary back-slapping exercise?

by Graham Cooke - 18/09/2006 - 4 comments

Heads I win: tails you lose

by John Shields - 21/03/2006 - 18 comments

IR reform no bad thing

by Graeme Haycroft - 27/03/2006 - 58 comments

Bad economics and bad leadership

by Nicholas Gruen - 28/04/2006 - 16 comments

The world economy through a crystal ball

by Saul Eslake - 9/01/2006 - 12 comments

Confronting our water challenge

by Malcolm Turnbull - 11/08/2006 - 79 comments

A crisis in housing affordability

by Andrew Bartlett - 28/08/2006 - 166 comments

Understanding the retiring kind

by Myra Hamilton and Clive Hamilton - 9/10/2006 - 4 comments

Public interest versus political opportunism

by Andrew Bartlett - 8/05/2006 - 2 comments

Now here’s a shock - manufacturing exporters do have a future

by Tim Harcourt - 4/12/2006 - 20 comments

The virtues of healthy choice and competition

by Mikayla Novak - 29/03/2006 - 19 comments

Public responsibility - public schools

by John Kaye - 27/03/2006 - 6 comments

The economics of oofle dust

by Chris Shaw - 29/05/2006 - 19 comments

Our generation’s choice

by Andrew Hewett - 17/11/2006 - 22 comments

It's time for a new TV deal

by Jock Given - 5/10/2006 - 13 comments

Stimulating mineral exploration

by Krystian Seibert and Alex Collins - 11/04/2006 - 10 comments

Book review: 'The Long Emergency'

by Peter McMahon - 11/04/2006 - 27 comments

From dirt to digital

by Damian Jeffree - 21/04/2006 - 11 comments

Innovation drives growth

by Tom Bentley - 13/12/2006 - 3 comments

The time to move on from coal is now

by Ben Pearson - 29/12/2006 - 19 comments

Carmody's choice

by Joe Ludwig - 20/02/2006 - 3 comments

AWB Scandal: a wake-up call for Australia

by Krystian Seibert - 9/02/2006 - 20 comments

Dead round walking?

by Penny Gorman - 28/07/2006 - 1 comment

Can Medicare cope with chronic illness?

by Anne-Marie Boxall and Stephen Leeder - 10/10/2006 - 12 comments

What is good economic management?

by Chris Monnox - 22/06/2006 - 25 comments

Fuelling our future

by John Mathews - 9/08/2006 - 22 comments

Why is petrol so expensive?

by John Mathews - 8/08/2006 - 34 comments

Pain for poor people in minimum wage

by Des Moore - 26/09/2006 - 64 comments

Why governments have failed on global trading

by Richard Stanton - 8/09/2006 - 9 comments

Reputation is everything

by Peter Verhezen - 28/11/2006 - 4 comments

The heroes and villains in the Great Climate Debate

by Monika Sarder - 26/10/2006 - 48 comments

The case for a pre-emptive strike

by Henry Thornton - 7/11/2006 - 2 comments

An Australian story - from fading uncle to economic success

by Peter Costello - 9/03/2006 - 36 comments

The 'nirvana' economy

by Henry Thornton - 7/02/2006 - 8 comments

Parties lose distinguishing features

by Des Moore - 21/06/2006

A responsible mandate for the Future Fund

by Charles Berger - 1/05/2006 - 6 comments

States should embrace reform - it’s in their interest

by Des Moore - 5/06/2006 - 18 comments

Inflation dragon stirs

by Henry Thornton - 1/08/2006 - 3 comments

Public’s heart not in it

by Susan McDonald - 6/09/2006 - 9 comments

Book review 'Vital Signs Vibrant Society': Labor can lead reform

by Corin McCarthy - 23/10/2006 - 3 comments

Only rich people want to lower the top tax rate

by Andrew Leigh - 8/03/2006 - 34 comments

The great bubble of China?

by Mal Bozic - 24/05/2006 - 10 comments

Telling us what we already know

by Mirko Bagaric - 13/04/2006 - 26 comments

Some clouds on the rural landscape

by Ben Rees - 24/05/2006 - 5 comments

Macchiato myths

by Tim Wilson - 15/08/2006 - 13 comments

Learning for life

by Stephen Jones - 18/10/2006

Rural-proofing our health services

by Susan Stratigos - 28/03/2006 - 4 comments

Building economic activity: the role of the National Competition Council

by Alan Moran - 24/01/2006 - 1 comment

Global monetary policy tightens

by Henry Thornton - 4/04/2006

There goes the neighbourhood

by Ian Davidoff and Andrew Leigh - 30/08/2006 - 9 comments

Water policy is not that simple

by Daniel Connell and Karen Hussey - 13/02/2006 - 19 comments

Beattie's why generation

by Mark Christensen - 13/12/2006 - 4 comments

Business gets its absolutes out of order

by Greg Craven - 23/10/2006 - 23 comments

Growth in mining hampered by a lack of geoscientists

by Gregory Webb - 7/12/2006 - 9 comments

What next for Timor?

by Jeremy Ballenger - 24/07/2006 - 5 comments

Our place in the region

by Tony Henderson - 5/06/2006 - 21 comments

In our national interest or our economic interest?

by Cate Morriss - 14/06/2006 - 8 comments

Man - it costs to be a woman

by Margaret Ann Williams - 14/09/2006 - 33 comments

Is Australia a ‘high taxing’ nation? What is the responsible answer?

by Tristan Ewins - 5/05/2006 - 163 comments

Executive power

by Sharon Beder - 9/06/2006 - 53 comments

A touchstone time for Russia

by Jeff Schubert - 8/11/2006 - 1 comment

So much to gain for so little pain

by Nicholas Gruen - 20/10/2006 - 4 comments

Climate change costs - look at both sides of the balance sheet

by Fiona Wain - 6/12/2006 - 13 comments

Innovation needs more investment in this budget

by Chris Bowen - 4/05/2006 - 4 comments

Bligh's bounty

by Mark Christensen - 8/06/2006 - 7 comments

Hanging out for a banana?

by Mirko Bagaric - 28/06/2006 - 30 comments

Forging a common destiny

by Ioan Voicu - 6/10/2006 - 2 comments

Overseas aid belongs abroad

by Tim O'Connor - 28/04/2006 - 26 comments

China and India are more than a market for our minerals

by Peter Brook - 16/05/2006 - 5 comments

There's plenty to downsize

by Des Moore - 10/10/2006 - 10 comments

The public transport myth

by Alan Moran - 24/10/2006 - 91 comments

How to make a partnership pay its way

by Edward Blakely - 8/03/2006 - 9 comments

Big business and greenhouse: a declaration of surrender

by Sharon Beder - 6/02/2006 - 18 comments

Genetically modified crops will cost

by James Norman and Louise Sales - 14/08/2006 - 93 comments

AWB Inquiry - the truth, the whole truth ...

by Tony Kevin - 17/02/2006 - 90 comments

Public Private Partnerships no 'magic pudding'

by Tristan Ewins - 11/12/2006 - 5 comments

Tax cuts and increased spending don't add up

by Tristan Ewins - 23/11/2006 - 34 comments

Nuclear not the answer

by Peter Bradford - 4/12/2006 - 32 comments

A bit too much drought and not enough flooding rains

by Brad Ruting - 25/10/2006 - 74 comments

What’s wrong with churning?

by Nicholas Gruen - 17/02/2006 - 15 comments

Social democracy - not dead yet: a response to Clive Hamilton

by Tristan Ewins - 4/04/2006 - 59 comments

Bad faith drives desire for more competition

by Mark Christensen - 1/06/2006 - 3 comments

Welfare or Earthshare?

by Alanna Hartzok - 8/05/2006 - 24 comments

Lies and statistics

by Andrew Leigh - 25/05/2006 - 9 comments

Watching our future going down the gurgler

by Stuart Bunn - 5/07/2006 - 15 comments

In a policy halfway house

by Mark Christensen - 2/08/2006

Doha closes, another opens

by Mark Thirwell - 28/07/2006 - 2 comments

China and the new world order

by George Gu - 28/11/2006 - 6 comments

The trouble with our car industry

by Nicholas Gruen - 22/08/2006 - 6 comments

So rich, we can afford to keep 'Saving the Murray River'

by Jennifer Marohasy - 10/05/2006 - 31 comments

Competition policy dilemmas: time for a new direction

by Mark Christensen - 28/09/2006 - 1 comment

Disconnected competition

by Mark Christensen - 18/08/2006 - 6 comments

Saving daylight

by Peter Stopher - 22/11/2006 - 13 comments

Microcredit and extremism

by Tanveer Ahmed - 10/11/2006 - 6 comments

After the climate backflip, what next?

by Chris Harries - 13/11/2006 - 23 comments

Time to act

by Njongonkulu Ndungane - 17/11/2006 - 24 comments

Tasmanian logging - a law unto itself

by James Rose - 22/06/2006 - 9 comments

Compulsory super - not so super duper

by Mirko Bagaric - 20/02/2006 - 19 comments

Book review: 'Minimum Wages and Poverty: An Evaluation of Policy Alternatives'

by Andrew Leigh - 2/05/2006 - 10 comments

Get ready for new management

by John E. Carey - 29/11/2006 - 36 comments

The two worlds of WorkChoices

by Mark Bahnisch - 5/04/2006

Why John Howard will win next year's federal election

by James McConvill - 25/10/2006 - 43 comments

Public purpose - public interest

by Mark Bahnisch - 23/06/2006 - 31 comments

A predictable income - it's all workers want

by Graeme Haycroft - 5/07/2006 - 31 comments

In defence of industrialisation and mining

by Jack Sturgess - 27/12/2006 - 25 comments

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