Despite big talk from the government about punishing any fuel retailers profiteering from the global energy crisis, many forms of price gouging remain perfectly legal.

A 25% gas export tax would drive down gas prices for Australians and collect billions of dollars that can be used to provide better, cheaper health and education services. 

Australians are already paying a price for the illegal US-Israel war on Iran, so why did the Reserve Bank double down and raise rates again?

Now costing Australian governments $31,020 per minute, fossil fuel subsidies are growing faster than spending on the NDIS.

You’re meant to tax things you want less of and subsidise things you want more of – yet Australian governments are handing out $16.3 billion in fossil fuel subsidies this financial year.

In the MAGAverse, it’s white men who are born to rule – at home and abroad.

The joint US-Israel war on Iran could have serious, lasting impacts on the global economy.

The far-right is benefitting from a failing status quo – but it doesn’t have to be this way.

Australia is a low taxing nation, but Shadow Treasurer Tim Wilson still seems to want the highest earners to pay less.

Wages aren’t driving higher inflation, so why do workers always seem to cop the blame?

Inequality creates insecurity and, as the United States is demonstrating right now, that insecurity can have devasting consequences for democracy.

On the back of ongoing tax concessions primarily benefitting the wealthiest and the government’s five per cent deposit scheme for first home buyers, Australia has just broken a new record for average home loan size.

The privatisation of Australian high school education, originally led by the Howard government, has caused prices to soar.

With inflation driven by Christmas holidays and data centres for artificial intelligence, the RBA didn’t need to raise the interest rate this week, argues Matt Grudnoff.

Even the Mathias Cormann-led OECD says the capital gains tax discount and negative gearing are a problem.

The Australian government can’t keep its head in the sand and hope the chaos of the Trump administration will just go away.

What would it take to make the PALM scheme a genuine win-win for Australia and its neighbours?

PALM visas holders do not get Medicare (outside of a trial limited to 200 people), so what happens when they are injured, get sick or fall pregnant?

Where do the thousands of people who have left the PALM scheme, but stayed in Australia, go? How do they survive without a valid visa and, more importantly, what does the future hold for them?

In this summer mini-series, we examine the Australian guestworker program that could be putting people from Pacific Island nations and Timor-Leste at risk of modern slavery.

Big economic reform probably isn’t as hard as governments think.

Rooftop solar and data centres are drivers of Australia’s economic growth, but do they really bring the same value to Australian society?

By offering generous tax concessions to property investors and making it nearly impossible to live on JobSeeker, Australian governments have being making inequality worse.

Australian scientific discoveries have improved people’s lives and made the economy more productive – so why is the CSIRO being forced to shed workers again?

By taxing Australian resources more effectively, we could not only have a greener economy – but a fairer one as well.

By negotiating an end to the government shutdown without getting anything much in return, some Democrats have gone back to their old trick of resisting the President by giving him exactly what he needs.

The capital gains tax concession and negative gearing have worked together to make housing less affordable and exacerbate inequality.