Peter Martin
Top economists back boosts to JobSeeker and social housing over tax cuts in pre-budget poll
Overwhelmingly, Australia’s leading economists want the budget to boost social housing and the JobSeeker unemployment benefit rather than bring forward personal income...
No snapback: Reserve Bank no longer confident of quick bounce out of recession
The good news in the Reserve Bank’s latest quarterly set of forecasts is that the recession won’t be as steep as it...
No big bounce: 2020-21 economic survey points to weak recovery and declining living standards
The picture of economic recovery painted by Prime Minister Scott Morrison is looking like a mirage. The 22 leading economists polled by...
Economists back wage freeze, 21-19, in Economic Society-Conversation survey
Australian economists narrowly back a wage freeze in the minimum wage case now before the Fair Work Commission, a freeze that could flow through...
No lift in wages or economic growth, no progress on unemployment in year of low expectations
2020 is shaping up as a dismal year for the economy, with no progress on many of the key measures that matter...
Cabinet papers 1998-99: How the GST became unstoppable
Twice the goods and services tax had been rejected, the first time by Labor, which came close to introducing something similar in...
Everything you need to know about ‘deeming rates’
Now it’s the Coalition that’s being accused of a “retiree tax”. As interest rates have come down over the past four years,...
Buckle up. The economy is weak and about to get weaker
During the election we were promised jobs and growth. But The Conversation’s 2019-20 forecasting panel is predicting an economic growth rate as...