The government faces a growing problem around the booming property markets of Sydney and Melbourne while the Reserve Bank can see danger to the wider economy, Glenn Dyer and Bernard Keane write.
Some of Australia's biggest financial institutions stand to make a killing from the return to Iraq.
While Gina Rinehart demands that governments get off the back of the beleaguered mining industry, it is enjoying massive subsidies from state governments.
It's time to stop treating defence as a subset of industry policy and source major purchases from wherever we can find best value.
The Chinese building boom was unprecedented in scope and swiftness. The bad news? The bust will be of the same magnitude.
The national accounts show labour productivity has surged. The numbers, however, have received very different interpretations, and there's been a strange silence on productivity, Bernard Keane and Glenn Dyer write.
The government's delay in lifting compulsory super contributions means low and middle income earners will pay more tax.
Australians believe the terrorism threat is growing, but still support multiculturalism and a non-discriminatory immigration policy, today's Essential Report shows.
The business community is oddly silent as the government goes about killing investment and jobs as part of its ideological hatred of renewable energy.
The copyright cartel's local front wants to impose a draconian anti-piracy scheme on local ISPs, a paper obtained by Crikey reveals.
