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Essays & Reportage Here comes the sun Tristan Edis 7 January 2020 Are three multimillionaires about to break Australia’s political deadlock on climate? National Affairs The economic case for increasing Newstart Adam Triggs 30 December 2019 There’s more than one good reason to lift the payment to jobseekers Essays & Reportage Recalling the consequences of Keynes’s ‘Economic Consequences of the Peace’ Selwyn Cornish and John Hawkins 12 December 2019 Keynes’s book on the Versailles Treaty not only predicted dire results, but also provided guidance for those planning the global economic system following the second world war National Affairs Falling behind, but not going backwards Tim Colebatch 5 December 2019 Business and household demand shrank by 0.3 per cent in the year to September, leaving government and exports to fuel Australia’s modest per capita growth

National Affairs The Reserve Bank needs cooperation, not quantitative easing Adam Triggs 10 October 2019 It’s time for the federal government to play a much bigger role in promoting growth National Affairs What is a developing country anyway? Tim Colebatch 4 October 2019 Scott Morrison says China has graduated to the rich-countries club. The figures say something different National Affairs China, the world, and us Tim Colebatch 20 September 2019 Has Australia tied itself too closely to a single economy? International The Saudi oil shock: a symptom of a much bigger economic risk Adam Triggs 19 September 2019 Is a highly integrated global economy starting to come apart at the seams?

Essays & Reportage A progressive agenda for tackling Australia’s productivity crisis Andrew Leigh 28 July 2019 Cutting working conditions won’t get us out of the current malaise International Is China’s economic model really a threat? William H. Overholt 9 July 2019 China is a late example of the “Asian miracle” rather than a taste of the future National Affairs Nearly three decades of economic growth — and yet… John Edwards 8 July 2019 The Reserve Bank is running out of ways of tackling Australia’s economic malaise International Don’t mention the (trade) war Adam Triggs 1 July 2019 Amid missed opportunities, Scott Morrison scored an unexpected win