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Stephen Anthony

The Age

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‘Chalmernomics’ budget sliced up but didn’t grow the pie

‘Chalmernomics’ budget sliced up but didn’t grow the pie

Tax-and-redistributive politics cannot fix a productivity crisis; it merely distracts from it.

18.05.2026 10

Financial Review

Stephen Anthony

Labor is betting entire grid on the weather. The odds don’t look good

Australia is undertaking a 100 per cent renewables transition without its best players: those reliable old steam turbines that once gave cheap, steady...

06.05.2026 20

Financial Review

Stephen Anthony

Albanese must call time on Victoria’s next corruption trap

Federal support for Victoria’s Suburban Rail Loop East effectively asks the rest of Australia to bail out Premier Jacinta Allan’s broke government...

14.04.2026 20

Financial Review

Stephen Anthony

Fix the electricity system in 2026 by returning to first principles

Electricity is not a policy construct. It is physics – and the physics have not changed since Michael Faraday and the steam engine, writes Stephen...

01.01.2026 70

Financial Review

Stephen Anthony

I helped review the NDIS and I know how to fix it

The scheme can be fixed, but only if governments stop delaying solutions and confront the pricing rigidities that distort the disability support...

30.11.2025 20

Financial Review

Stephen Anthony

Australian taxpayers bailing out Victoria’s Suburban Rail Loop chaos

When the Albanese government is the project’s anchor tenant, it signals that federal Labor will bail out Victoria, no matter how indebted it becomes.

18.11.2025 10

Financial Review

Stephen Anthony