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RBA director Warwick McKibbin has a reputation for speaking his mind on key economic matters. It appears he is at it again , and it is wort...

A number of people have made thought-provoking comments on this blog in the past months, only to have their comments disappear moments aft...

I work with a bunch of economists. Now is the time of year we have performance reviews and negotiate pay rises and promotions. But no one h...

The academic literature generally concludes that smoking reduces health costs to society. This is in stark contrast to commonly held belief...

A common housing market myth is that low vacancy rates lead to rent increases, which lead to price increases (or at the very least, put a li...

...and a light read on safety measures that don't work (but probably make us feel better).

The public debate about mandatory helmet wearing laws in Australia has raged since Sue Abbott won an appeal to the District Court last Augu...

Last night SBS aired their new three part series Go Back To Where You Came From , where six Aussies take part in a 'reverse refugee'...

The Aussie dollar has maintained its above USD parity levels for some time now.  Given Australia's reliance on imported consumer goods, ...

The Queensland government is set to remove the maximum commission that residential real estate agents can charge from the Property Agents a...