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Brisbane Times

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The RBA chose to sit on its hands in 2024. Here’s why

At its first meeting of 2024, the Reserve Bank of Australia board held the official cash rate steady at 4.35 per cent. Following its final meeting...

25.12.2024 5

WA Today

Shane Wright

The RBA chose to sit on its hands in 2024. Here’s why

At its first meeting of 2024, the Reserve Bank of Australia board held the official cash rate steady at 4.35 per cent. Following its final meeting...

25.12.2024 5

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shane Wright

The RBA chose to sit on its hands in 2024. Here’s why

At its first meeting of 2024, the Reserve Bank of Australia board held the official cash rate steady at 4.35 per cent. Following its final meeting...

25.12.2024 4

The Age

Shane Wright

The RBA chose to sit on its hands in 2024. Here’s why

At its first meeting of 2024, the Reserve Bank of Australia board held the official cash rate steady at 4.35 per cent. Following its final meeting...

25.12.2024 3

Brisbane Times

Shane Wright

Why my bosses are both out of a job. But spa builders are doing OK

Earlier this month, my occupation disappeared. There I was, strutting around Parliament House as a print journalist, pen behind my ear, a dog-eared...

18.12.2024 2

WA Today

Shane Wright

Why my bosses are both out of a job. But spa builders are doing OK

Earlier this month, my occupation disappeared. There I was, strutting around Parliament House as a print journalist, pen behind my ear, a dog-eared...

18.12.2024 4

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shane Wright

Why my bosses are both out of a job. But spa builders are doing OK

Earlier this month, my occupation disappeared. There I was, strutting around Parliament House as a print journalist, pen behind my ear, a dog-eared...

18.12.2024 3

The Age

Shane Wright

Why my bosses are both out of a job. But spa builders are doing OK

Earlier this month, my occupation disappeared. There I was, strutting around Parliament House as a print journalist, pen behind my ear, a dog-eared...

18.12.2024 4

Brisbane Times

Shane Wright

Might look like Chalmers is spending like a drunken sailor, but this is what’s really going on

Jim Chalmers has delivered a set of budget numbers covered in red – that’s bad news for Anthony Albanese and also for Peter Dutton. In the run-up...

18.12.2024 2

WA Today

Shane Wright

Might look like Chalmers is spending like a drunken sailor, but this is what’s really going on

Jim Chalmers has delivered a set of budget numbers covered in red – that’s bad news for Anthony Albanese and also for Peter Dutton. In the run-up...

18.12.2024 4

The Age

Shane Wright

Might look like Chalmers is spending like a drunken sailor, but this is what’s really going on

Jim Chalmers has delivered a set of budget numbers covered in red – that’s bad news for Anthony Albanese and also for Peter Dutton. In the run-up...

18.12.2024 5

Brisbane Times

Shane Wright

Might look like Chalmers is spending like a drunken sailor, but this is what’s really going on

Jim Chalmers has delivered a set of budget numbers covered in red – that’s bad news for Anthony Albanese and also for Peter Dutton. In the run-up...

18.12.2024 7

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shane Wright

A terrible set of numbers for a treasurer and Reserve Bank governor

Jim Chalmers and Michele Bullock have plenty to ponder after the poor September quarter national accounts showed an economy in real trouble. For...

04.12.2024 4

WA Today

Shane Wright

A terrible set of numbers for a treasurer and Reserve Bank governor

Jim Chalmers and Michele Bullock have plenty to ponder after the poor September quarter national accounts showed an economy in real trouble. For...

04.12.2024 5

Brisbane Times

Shane Wright

A terrible set of numbers for a treasurer and Reserve Bank governor

Jim Chalmers and Michele Bullock have plenty to ponder after the poor September quarter national accounts showed an economy in real trouble. For...

04.12.2024 4

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shane Wright

A terrible set of numbers for a treasurer and Reserve Bank governor

Jim Chalmers and Michele Bullock have plenty to ponder after the poor September quarter national accounts showed an economy in real trouble. For...

04.12.2024 4

The Age

Shane Wright

Why tax reform is the national debate we can no longer afford to avoid

Independent MP Allegra Spender made a piece of history last week – one that, hopefully, will wake up the government and Coalition to deal with one...

26.11.2024 4

WA Today

Shane Wright

Why tax reform is the national debate we can no longer afford to avoid

Independent MP Allegra Spender made a piece of history last week – one that, hopefully, will wake up the government and Coalition to deal with one...

26.11.2024 4

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shane Wright

Why tax reform is the national debate we can no longer afford to avoid

Independent MP Allegra Spender made a piece of history last week – one that, hopefully, will wake up the government and Coalition to deal with one...

26.11.2024 3

The Age

Shane Wright

Why tax reform is the national debate we can no longer afford to avoid

Independent MP Allegra Spender made a piece of history last week – one that, hopefully, will wake up the government and Coalition to deal with one...

26.11.2024 4

Brisbane Times

Shane Wright

A treasurer stares at a government’s political mortality

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has looked his government’s political mortality in the face – and he is worried. In a rousing off-the-cuff speech to the...

15.11.2024 1

WA Today

Shane Wright

A treasurer stares at a government’s political mortality

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has looked his government’s political mortality in the face – and he is worried. In a rousing off-the-cuff speech to the...

15.11.2024 1

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shane Wright

A treasurer stares at a government’s political mortality

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has looked his government’s political mortality in the face – and he is worried. In a rousing off-the-cuff speech to the...

15.11.2024 4

The Age

Shane Wright

A treasurer stares at a government’s political mortality

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has looked his government’s political mortality in the face – and he is worried. In a rousing off-the-cuff speech to the...

15.11.2024 3

Brisbane Times

Shane Wright

There still be inflation sea monsters ahead for Captain Bullock

There’s a scene in Russell Crowe’s best film, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, when his ship rounds Cape Horn. He and his crew...

05.11.2024 4

WA Today

Shane Wright

There still be inflation sea monsters ahead for Captain Bullock

There’s a scene in Russell Crowe’s best film, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, when his ship rounds Cape Horn. He and his crew...

05.11.2024 2

Brisbane Times

Shane Wright

Want to know how you’ll die? Increasingly, the chances are it will be dementia

Freddie Mercury posed a question for the ages when he asked who wants to live forever. The Queen frontman only made it to 45, but extending...

31.10.2024 10

WA Today

Shane Wright

Want to know how you’ll die? Increasingly, the chances are it will be dementia

Freddie Mercury posed a question for the ages when he asked who wants to live forever. The Queen frontman only made it to 45, but extending...

31.10.2024 10

The Age

Shane Wright

Want to know how you’ll die? Increasingly, the chances are it will be dementia

Freddie Mercury posed a question for the ages when he asked who wants to live forever. The Queen frontman only made it to 45, but extending...

31.10.2024 2

Brisbane Times

Shane Wright

There’s your inflation rate – then there’s the Reserve Bank’s rate

When it comes to inflation, there’s the world inhabited by Australian shoppers, and then there’s the one called home by the Reserve Bank. The...

30.10.2024 4

The Age

Shane Wright

There’s your inflation rate – then there’s the Reserve Bank’s rate

When it comes to inflation, there’s the world inhabited by Australian shoppers, and then there’s the one called home by the Reserve Bank. The...

30.10.2024 2

Brisbane Times

Shane Wright

An RBA focused on real cost-of-living pressures? That’s bananas

Back in 2006, when Ian Macfarlane was at the helm of the Reserve Bank of Australia, a Liberal MP asked what the impact of a spike in banana prices...

17.10.2024 3

The Age

Shane Wright

An RBA focused on real cost-of-living pressures? That’s bananas

Back in 2006, when Ian Macfarlane was at the helm of the Reserve Bank of Australia, a Liberal MP asked what the impact of a spike in banana prices...

17.10.2024 1

Brisbane Times

Shane Wright

Australians are mad at the supermarkets, but not mad enough to shop elsewhere

The old saying that you can drag a horse to water but can’t make it drink should be updated. No matter what you do to encourage Australian shoppers...

02.10.2024 1

WA Today

Shane Wright

Australians are mad at the supermarkets, but not mad enough to shop elsewhere

The old saying that you can drag a horse to water but can’t make it drink should be updated. No matter what you do to encourage Australian shoppers...

02.10.2024 2

The Age

Shane Wright

Australians are mad at the supermarkets, but not mad enough to shop elsewhere

The old saying that you can drag a horse to water but can’t make it drink should be updated. No matter what you do to encourage Australian shoppers...

02.10.2024 3

Brisbane Times

Shane Wright

Never mind negative gearing – this is the real steal

Forget about the renewed hue and cry about negative gearing. If the country wants a tax system that works, doesn’t distort investment decisions...

01.10.2024 2

WA Today

Shane Wright

Never mind negative gearing – this is the real steal

Forget about the renewed hue and cry about negative gearing. If the country wants a tax system that works, doesn’t distort investment decisions...

01.10.2024 2

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shane Wright

Never mind negative gearing – this is the real steal

Forget about the renewed hue and cry about negative gearing. If the country wants a tax system that works, doesn’t distort investment decisions...

01.10.2024 2

The Age

Shane Wright

Never mind negative gearing – this is the real steal

Forget about the renewed hue and cry about negative gearing. If the country wants a tax system that works, doesn’t distort investment decisions...

01.10.2024 2

Brisbane Times

Shane Wright

Coles and Woolies could be the perfect inflation villains

The ACCC’s seismic action against Coles and Woolworths alleging industrial-scale price gouging of the nation’s consumers is the perfect...

23.09.2024 3

WA Today

Shane Wright

Coles and Woolies could be the perfect inflation villains

The ACCC’s seismic action against Coles and Woolworths alleging industrial-scale price gouging of the nation’s consumers is the perfect...

23.09.2024 8

The Age

Shane Wright

The costly business of cash has to change

Cash costs money. As part of the debate about surcharges imposed by retailers on people who pay with a card or another electronic device versus...

18.09.2024 2

WA Today

Shane Wright

The costly business of cash has to change

Cash costs money. As part of the debate about surcharges imposed by retailers on people who pay with a card or another electronic device versus...

18.09.2024 2

The Age

Shane Wright

Waiting for a rate cut? The only certainty for the RBA is uncertainty

If someone had created a Spotify playlist for the Reserve Bank board’s most recent meeting, it surely would have featured What’s Going On, Dazed...

20.08.2024 3

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shane Wright

The harshest truth about our housing crisis? There’s no silver bullet

Every time someone says they’ve got a new easy answer to Australia’s disastrous housing situation, a little bit of me dies. Whether it’s the...

20.08.2024 5

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shane Wright

Taxpayers will come dead last at the Brisbane Games

Jessica Fox. Leon Marchand. Katie Ledecky. All great Olympic champions. All deserving of enormous recognition for their achievements over the past...

06.08.2024 1

WA Today

Shane Wright

Why Wednesday’s inflation figures mean the RBA faces its toughest decision in a generation

The Reserve Bank faces its toughest decision in a generation that will force it to decide between its two core tenets - keeping inflation in check...

30.07.2024 8

WA Today

Shane Wright

Why Wednesday’s inflation figures mean the RBA faces its toughest decision in a generation

The Reserve Bank faces its toughest decision in a generation that will force it to decide between its two core tenets - keeping inflation in check...

30.07.2024 2

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shane Wright

Why Wednesday’s inflation figures mean the RBA faces its toughest decision in a generation

The Reserve Bank faces its toughest decision in a generation that will force it to decide between its two core tenets - keeping inflation in check...

30.07.2024 20

The Age

Shane Wright