John Kehoe

Steps could include roof replacement, upgrading garage doors, boosting window protection, tying down sheds, and replacing flimsy hollow doors.

Higher US inflation has economists warning interest rates may need to go higher to offset a “dangerous” cocktail of tax cuts and green industrial subsidies.

All past productivity commission heads have echoed Danielle Wood’s concerns that the government’s proposed Future Made in Australia Act risks entrenching subsidy-dependent businesses.

The nation “relies too much on personal income tax and corporate income tax” and “there are limits to the sustainability of that”, the OECD’s tax official and former Labor minister David Bradbury says.

On a recent Friday in Canberra, a deflated public servant friend revealed that there were only three people at work on a floor space that can seat 30 to 40.

Governments are on track to loosen their budgets by $50 billion in the middle of an inflation crisis and rising interest rates.

Liberal Andrew Bragg has endorsed a call by bankers to relax home loan regulations to make it easier for first home buyers to enter the housing market.

When the RBA board meets next week, the key question governor Michele Bullock will be grappling with is the future pace of disinflation.

An economic adviser to the government has suggested a “quick win” to encourage older Australians to downsize and free up housing for younger families.

The old rules of economics still apply and the consequences of Albanese’s big gamble could be widely felt.