In The Media
March 2024
June 2023
ABC investigations shortchanged
ABC political editor Andrew Probyn got all the attention when his job was made redundant, but there are several less well-known journalists on the ABC’s award-winning investigative programs who are also facing the sack. The ABC’s blueprint for digital transformation includes losing two staff from Four Corners, two from 7.30, four from the investigative reporting
Inflation, Corporate Pricing and Central Banking
Dr Evan Jones, retired professor of Political-Economy at the University of Sydney, has published an insightful commentary on recent debates regarding corporate profits, inflation and monetary policy. With permission we reprint his article here. It originally appeared in Counterpunch. The politics of inflation in Australia Consumer price inflation in Australia reached 6.8 % in the
May 2023
Q & A: Corporate profits and inflation
Q & A audience member Amy Brown cited the Australia Institute’s profits research when she asked the panel of politicians when they’re going to “act on behalf” of the constituents who elected them, instead of on behalf of corporations.
April 2023
March 2023
February 2023
Powering the Regions Fund Likely to Subsidise Coal & Gas Giants
Experts have warned that The Australian Government’s Powering the Regions Fund (PRF) will be used to subsidise fossil fuel projects. As currently proposed, the fund could leave Australian taxpayers bankrolling upgrades for global gas and coal giants that have reaped tens of billions of dollars in windfall profits and pay little if any tax in
December 2022
More than 100 experts urge Labor government to scrap stage 3 tax cuts
More than 100 economists and tax experts are urging the Labor government to reconsider the impending stage 3 tax cuts for high income earners, including a former RBA boss who called it a “slap in the face for disadvantaged groups”. The tax cuts are part of the previous Coalition government’s three-stage tax overhaul, which changed
October 2022
Miners demand protection from carbon credit ‘speculators’
More than 100 of Australia’s biggest greenhouse gas emitters from the mining industry want Labor to cap the price of scarce carbon credits to stop speculators making offsets so costly that resources firms are forced to prematurely close mines. The Minerals Council of Australia issued the “must have” demand on Friday to cap carbon at
August 2022
Peter Dutton says Liberals will not attend government’s national jobs summit
The federal Liberals have rejected an invitation to attend a national jobs summit next month, labelling it a stunt.
ACTU pushes for caps on energy bills and a windfall tax on corporate profits ahead of jobs summit
Report proposes big changes to Australian economy including giving workers more clout to bargain for better pay
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