Macro outcomes A simple projection of current trends is that in ten years Australia’s population will reach 26.3 million, GDP in nominal dollars will be just short of $2.5 trillion (and in today’s dollars a round $1.8 trillion), and GDP per head in today’s dollars will be $68,400 compared to $59,000 now. There will be...

The sub-prime crisis shows that it is not enough for Australia to regulate its own financial system well, according to this paper. It is also in Australia’s interests to work towards forms of global coordination, global monitoring and global crisis response which lessen the frequency and duration of these financial shocks. Most of the obvious...

This paper asks where Australia's long economic expansion came from, what its defining characteristics are, and where it is going.

Is the federal government interested in efficiency or ideology, asks John Edwards.

The budget is not convincing enough to advance the treasurer’s ambitions, according to John Edwards.