Economy

WA's treasurer, a former IPA economist, epitomises the hypocrisy of the state’s special pleading for a bigger share of GST revenue.

The government’s new “jobactive” program has favoured American companies for lucrative employment services contracts.

As Hockey finally acknowledges the budget’s revenue problems, there are serious questions about whether resources will ever boom again.

The tax debate has raised the ongoing issue of Australia's underlying inequality.

With the ALP gradually losing the hearts and minds of many of its rusted-on faithful, the party must prove that it actually believes in something in order to survive.

Ahead of tax reform, it is worth considering how much of Joe Hockey's advice comes from the finance sector.

With his spot at the top seeming safe for the moment, Tony Abbott will pin his hopes of long-term survival on keeping households happy.

With leaders falling at the hands of voters and their own parties, management style is in the spotlight. But another contentious issue is coming back time and again to haunt both sides of politics.

The tax arrangements keeping electricity prices high.

Tony Abbott’s great mentor left him with a squandered boom and a tax system that may yet destroy his government.