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Dimitri Burshtein

Dimitri Burshtein

Brisbane Times

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That ‘recession feeling’ is caused by Canberra and the RBA

That ‘recession feeling’ is caused by Canberra and the RBA

It’s the consequence of Labor’s fiscal and public policy mismanagement, enabled by an accommodating central bank. And blaming oil prices is just a...

yesterday 10

Financial Review

Dimitri Burshtein

It is cheaper to shut down Snowy 2.0 debacle than finally build it

It is cheaper to shut down Snowy 2.0 debacle than finally build it

The monument needs more to be spent to finish it than has already been spent. The one piece of good news is that policymakers can resist the sunk-cost...

02.11.2026 20

Financial Review

Dimitri Burshtein

Grattan’s economists have the wrong answers on GST reform

Before expanding the GST, Australia should confront the deeper flaws in Commonwealth–state financial relations and the consequential fiscal...

20.10.2026 20

Financial Review

Dimitri Burshtein

On productivity, Chalmers is less reform and all perform for media applause

A red tape reduction program is only of benefit if the government has not spent the previous four years adding red tape.

12.10.2026 90

Financial Review

Dimitri Burshtein

Demography means an ageing Australia is running out of time to fix budget

The tailwind that powered the boom of the 2000s is now a headwind. A shrinking workforce may not be productive enough to finance Australia’s...

07.09.2026 60

Financial Review

Dimitri Burshtein

Saul Eslake is wrong about GST – Howard’s original deal was worse

Many regard the GST as one of the Howard government’s crowning achievements. It was not, and inflicted a productivity-asphyxiating knot on the...

19.08.2026 30

Financial Review

Dimitri Burshtein

Don Russell is right about independent boards torching shareholder’s money

If the governance establishment is serious about value creation rather than governance box-ticking, it should follow the evidence rather than the...

24.05.2026 50

Financial Review

Dimitri Burshtein

Labor ‘vision’ blind to harsh reality of debt/deficit disaster

31.01.2026 40

The Australian

Dimitri Burshtein

The RBA is gaslighting Australia on inflation

Ultra-low interest rates and liquidity largesse are “treatments” that induce the very symptoms they claim to be managing.

10.12.2025 60

Financial Review

Dimitri Burshtein

Poison posing as care in the RBA’s Munchausen-by-proxy economy

Ultra-low interest rates and liquidity largesse are “treatments” that induce the very symptoms they claim to be managing.

10.12.2025 50

Financial Review

Dimitri Burshtein

Reviving shareholder-centric governance can save the ASX

The exchange operator’s fall from global leader to regional laggard was driven by a shift to stakeholder-centric values by its now-defunct Corporate...

20.10.2025 40

Financial Review

Dimitri Burshtein

Optus and ANZ show the governance failures of the director class

Competence and a skin in the game should be a requirement for a board seat at a big business. A fetish for independence isn’t enough to ensure good...

24.09.2025 30

Financial Review

Dimitri Burshtein