Inside Story

International Benefits and costs Michael Jacobs 29 June 2025 Keir Starmer is paying a heavy price for spending cuts that lacked a defensible rationale Books & arts Are we getting in our own way? John Edwards 24 June 2025 The American bestseller Abundance is making waves in Australia, but its key argument has less force on this side of the Pacific National affairs Taxing times Karen Middleton 20 June 2025 Jim Chalmers wants to “test the appetite” for more ambitious productivity reforms National affairs It’s not as simple as building more houses Peter Mares 21 May 2025 Labor’s housing policies focus on increasing supply. Now it must also tackle distribution

National affairs Donald Trump and the ghost of Al Capone Saul Eslake 6 April 2025 Australian exporters might well cope with a 10 per cent tariff, but a worldwide recession is another thing altogether Books & arts Learning from Hefei Michael Gill 5 February 2025 Economic and political pressures are pulling in different directions in Xi Jinping’s China Other Voices Trump starts to break things Noah Smith 3 February 2025 The US president’s tariff decisions will damage not just America’s allies but also its own economy Other Voices The populist phantom Larry M. Bartels 18 January 2025 Democracy erodes from the top

International Beijing’s brake Saul Eslake 24 October 2024 All signs suggest that China is in the grip of a long, self-induced economic slowdown National affairs Manufacturing’s security blanket Saul Eslake 26 August 2024 Labor’s Future Made in Australia policy risks entrenching opaque subsidies in a favoured sector International The great decoupling Daniel Susskind 21 June 2024 Economic growth and the environment needn’t be in conflict — as the figures are already showing National affairs That fickle budget bounce Peter Brent 17 May 2024 All eyes will be on the next round of opinion polls. But it’s the ones that come later that count