The common message from much of the social sciences is that the arts and culture are more than just industries exchanging goods and services. They are constitutive parts of our everyday life.
Economic policy
The Coalition is fundamentally at odds with the RBA
The Coalition’s economic policy is fundamentally at odds with the views of the Reserve Bank. If it was Labor, we’d never hear the end of it.
Coalition announces new round of savings
It seems increasingly clear the Coalition’s economic policy for the election is to continue its scare campaign on debt and deficits and hope Australians are economically illiterate enough to connect a possible interest rate rise by the RBA in two weeks with Labor’s economic policies, writes Bernard Keane.
It’s crunch week for the Australian economy
This could very well be the week where economic policy for the next one to two years is set, with the Reserve Bank widely expected to provide more explicit views on the direction of monetary policy.
What’s the worst job you ever had then?
Pulling policies out of … oh never mind. What do you give the Shadow Treasurer who has everything? A staff! “Applicants should have a keen interest in economic policy” … ah well, that would make one of you.







