Inside Story

National affairs How Australia’s Covid-19 debt will look after itself Adam Triggs 24 May 2021 Concerns that the government’s post-pandenic debt will need to be repaid by future generations don’t stack up National affairs This year’s budget, last year’s spending Tim Colebatch 21 May 2021 Despite a booming state economy, the Victorian government plans even more stimulus National affairs The budget’s thylacine-chasing days are over John Quiggin 18 May 2021 The economy has entered an era that demands new thinking National affairs Kicking the can down the road Tim Colebatch 12 May 2021 Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and his colleagues have avoided hard decisions about how the government taxes and spends

National affairs What to do about China? Adam Triggs 5 April 2021 Australia is struggling to live with China, but can’t live without it. What can be done? Essays & reportage Australia’s post-Covid moment Geoff Kitney 27 March 2021 Is the time right for the sweeping reforms proposed in a new series of essays? International Biden’s trustbusters Danielle Wood 25 March 2021 With two of their critics appointed to senior roles by the US president, the big tech companies are on notice National affairs What went right in the twentieth century John Quiggin 23 March 2021 Why haven’t we learned more from the West’s golden age, the long postwar boom?

International On economics, America has moved left John Quiggin 8 March 2021 Public support for much greater government spending has grown in the United States, and the economic risks can be managed National affairs Build back fairer Danielle Wood, Kate Griffiths and Tom Crowley 8 March 2021 For many women, “Covid normal” isn’t working National affairs Go hard, go early, go renewables Tim Colebatch 3 March 2021 Ever the optimist, Ross Garnaut has a plan for Australia’s economic future National affairs Have the times suited them? Carol Johnson 2 March 2021 How different a prime minister is Scott Morrison from John Howard, who won office a quarter-century ago?