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Australia must keep its hands clean and walk the talk on free trade

The government is right to reject retaliatory tariffs: international trade and investment are simply too vital to the Australian economy for this to...

17.03.2025 2

Financial Review

Danielle Wood

Quality early care and education is a right for every child

13.12.2024 3

The Australian

Danielle Wood

Hilmer reforms of 1990s helped lift productivity. We can do it again

Fred Hilmer’s reforms were groundbreaking because a series of small changes had a massive cumulative effect. With changes to competition policy, we...

18.11.2024 2

Financial Review

Danielle Wood

How economists can (again) win friends and influence people

Economists can be a necessary ‘pain in the arse’ in public debates. But policymakers have stopped listening, and the influence of the profession...

12.09.2024 2

Financial Review

Danielle Wood

Industry policies can work if we carefully weigh the risks

There can be compelling reasons for governments to intervene with subsidies and other favours. But they can never be allowed to become blank cheques.

11.09.2024 1

Financial Review

Danielle Wood

Productivity Commission shines light on economic costs just as Whitlam wanted

Before riding in on a white horse to stage an ‘ESG takeover’, critics should take more than a cursory glance at the work the commission actually...

01.08.2024 6

Financial Review

Danielle Wood