Inside Story

National affairs Increasing JobSeeker is good economics Adam Triggs 3 September 2024 The arguments against a rise in JobSeeker have proliferated, but none of them stands up to scrutiny Essays & reportage “You need to run it as a public service because that is what it is” Mike Steketee 16 August 2023 A string of scandals and cost-blowouts in social services look a lot like symptoms of a deeper problem National affairs The unemployment opportunity Jeff Borland 11 July 2023 We have a chance to keep joblessness at a historical low, argues a leading labour economist — and that also means measuring it differently National affairs Five minutes of sunshine? John Quiggin 15 May 2023 The Albanese government has quietly abandoned full employment

National affairs Would a job guarantee be
work for the dole 2.0?
David Sligar and Hugh Sturgess 8 September 2020 There are better, tested ways of generating new jobs National affairs Post-pandemic, here’s the case for a participation income John Quiggin 18 June 2020 For less than the cost of the Coalition’s Stage 3 tax cuts, Australians can be paid adequately to look for work or participate in socially useful activities National affairs Measuring the downturn Saul Eslake 27 March 2020 What are the best estimates of the pandemic’s impact on the Australian economy and the job market? 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

National affairs Is welfare sustainable? Peter Whiteford 26 November 2015 Senior federal government ministers say that welfare spending is growing too quickly. Peter Whiteford sifts the figures and comes to a different conclusion National affairs Our smallest recession, our weakest recovery. Has Australia’s potential growth rate shrunk? Tim Colebatch 5 August 2015 Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens seems to think we should expect lower long-term growth, writes Tim Colebatch. What do the figures say? National affairs Australia today: a million new adults, just 385,000 new jobs Tim Colebatch 22 January 2015 Australia’s job market has failed badly since the global financial crisis, writes Tim Colebatch National affairs New ways to dud Kiwis Peter Mares 9 April 2014 New Zealand has reacted to proposed changes to Australian social security law by raising discrimination concerns with Canberra, writes Peter Mares