Economy

As coal seam gas is promoted as essential to Australia’s future energy needs, there is insufficient research being funded on the contribution to climate change of ‘fugitive emissions’ from gas mining.

At the heart of the NT government’s perpetual shambles is a crisis of fiscal racism that for decades has squandered federal money.

Their attack on Labor’s economic figures may have backfired, but the Coalition’s campaign HQ is just happy the focus is back on the economy.

Amid confusion over forward estimates, the budget is as much about promised economic planning as it is an election pitch.

Following a sponsored visit by Reagan adviser Arthur Laffer, Malcolm Turnbull’s budget is based on the fallacy of his trickle-down economics.

The ABS unemployment figure, used to direct government policy, ignores hundreds of thousands of jobless Australians.

By picking a battle over investment incentives, the Coalition and the opposition are looking to fight the election at opposing ends of the “Australian dream”.

The first reports on the charity sector reveal staggering duplication and a nation less willing to give than it likes to imagine.

As foreign investment increases, especially from China, new protocols are being weighed to find a balance between Australia’s national security and economic growth.

Conservatives against a banks royal commission argue it would damage the economy – because of the criminality it would reveal.