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.

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

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

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

Renting a place to live is getting more expensive and house price rises are tipped to accelerate.

The federal government’s policy enabling five per cent house deposits is just a backdoor first homebuyer’s grant that’ll pump up prices.

A new report outlines the grave consequences of climate change for the Australian economy – so why is the government still approving fossil fuel projects?

When our most vulnerable are treated with suspicion, and our wealthiest get massive tax cuts, what does that say about our priorities?

We discuss the proposals around corporate tax and artificial intelligence ahead of the government’s productivity roundtable.

Also: the country is not too reliant on income tax.

Positive gearing is so FY21-22.

The debate over superannuation tax concessions shows that the wealthiest Australians get to play by different rules.

Australia’s overly generous approach to taxing wealth is allowing the richest Australians to keep more for themselves.

Rate cuts are great, but the Government needs to make sure that housing investors aren’t the main beneficiaries.

It’s won and done.

For housing affordability to improve, wages must grow faster than house prices.

A number of the housing policy proposals on offer in this election will make affordability worse.

Looking to buy a house? Having a good job that pays good money probably won’t be enough.

Without addressing the wealth inequality crisis, Australia’s economy and society will suffer.

Trump says he’s going to make other countries pay with a sweeping new tariff regime – but in reality, everyone will lose.

Private health insurance is getting more expensive and covering less – it’s time for a major rethink, says Greg Jericho.

Record numbers of Australians are employed – that’s a great thing, despite what the interest rate doomers are telling you, says Greg Jericho.

Consumers are finding themselves caught beneath the landslide of hidden fees, surcharges and corporate price gouging, says Greg Jericho.

Corporate spin and complex markets distract from real solutions to Australia’s climate and biodiversity crisis, says Greg Jericho.

By choosing to extend three coal mines, the government could be inadvertently redirecting construction workers from building houses to the fossil fuel industry.

Despite claims that it’d lead to some sort of housing armageddon, reforming negative gearing and the capital gains tax concessions would make the system fairer, says Greg Jericho.

Australia’s housing market is cooked and capping international student numbers isn’t going to fix it, says Greg Jericho.

A tax on the digital giants could be used to support free, public-interest journalism while implementing a total ban on gambling advertising, says Matt Grudnoff.

It’s not easy to screw up the housing market this badly – it’s taken Australia decades of bad policy and billions of dollars to get here, Matt Grudnoff says.