Peter Martin

What’s driving this new ultra-low unemployment? It’s been harder for employers to get workers, because borders were closed, and because of unusually high rates of people off sick.

Australia’s top economists are divided about how to tackle ballooning inflation of 6.1% that’s forecast to climb to a three-decade high of 7.75% by the end of the year.

Why did the Reserve Bank just hike its cash rate by an out-sized 0.50 percentage points for the third consecutive month, taking it to 1.85%? Partly because it knows what is to come.

Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones has asked the Treasury to consider concerns relating to the “regulatory complexity” of a requirement that super funds act in their members' best financial interests.

The RBA, in a nod to homeowners concerned about continual rate hikes, said it expected inflation to climb just a bit more before declining back towards its target next year.

The Reserve Bank is pushing up interest rates to take money out of our hands, so why is the government scheduled to do the opposite?

Australia's latest burst of inflation is weird, and resistant to rate hikes. If the RBA isn’t careful, too many more rate hikes like this might help bring on a recession.

Offered a menu of issues to choose from as the most important in the May 21 election, Australia’s top economists have overwhelmingly zeroed in on climate change.

Overwhelmingly, Australia’s top economists would rather the budget funds measures to cut carbon emissions than cuts income tax or company tax.

The inflation we’ve got this time is different, and failing to recognise that misreads the Reserve Bank's rationale for pushing up rates, and what it is likely to do.

New Zealand has just cut its fuel excise by 25 cents to ease cost-of-living pressures, and the Australian government is considering a budget measure along the same lines.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says he hasn’t “made any final decision” on the $7.8 billion per year low and middle income tax offset ahead of next month’s budget.