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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Nicki Hutley
We are about to get a painful global lesson in why we should listen to, rather than denigrate, experts. No one wins a trade war
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
taipeitimes.com | Nicki Hutley
By Nicki Hutley / The Guardian As we watch the horror of the Los Angeles fires, Australians are painfully reminded of their own vulnerability to climate change, which continues to exacerbate the impact and frequency of these unnatural disasters. The images of loss and destruction in LA are particularly painful to those who have experienced such losses firsthand in Australia.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
msn.com | Nicki Hutley
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Nicki Hutley
As we watch the horror of the Los Angeles fires, Australians are painfully reminded of our own vulnerability to climate change, which continues to exacerbate the impact and frequency of these unnatural disasters. The images of loss and destruction in LA are particularly painful to those who have experienced such losses first-hand in Australia.
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Dec 14, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Nicki Hutley
The Coalition has moved a considerable way on climate and energy since Scott Morrisson brought a lump of coal into the parliament and told us not to be afraid. On Friday, the Coalition finally released the long-awaited details of the nuclear plan it will take to the election and, once again, asks us not to be afraid – of the price tag, the higher climate pollution and a range of other variables.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Angela Jackson |Nicki Hutley |John Quiggin |Isaac Gross
The Australian economy has experienced its slowest growth in decades, propped up by public sector spending. As the year comes to an end, four economists give their assessment of the Reserve Bank of Australia’s approach to lowering inflation and share their projections for 2025. ‘The time is now right’ to cut interest ratesThings are very hard in the real economy, and without government spending Australia would now be in recession.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Nicki Hutley
The problems in housing affordability have been building for decades, the clear result of policy failures across all levels of government that have now brought us to what can reasonably be described as a crisis point. The severity of the problem is obvious.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Nicki Hutley
Whenever things are going badly from an economic perspective, we like to point fingers. And, let’s face it, things are not going well. Wednesday’s GDP figures showed the economy on its knees and household incomes going backwards. On top of that, unemployment has been creeping higher for the better part of a year, while house prices continue to climb, leaving our biggest cities among the most unaffordable in the world.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Nicki Hutley
For several months now, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has been communicating that, when it comes to interest rate policy, it would rule nothing in or out. The message was that inflation was slowly heading back to target and the RBA was prepared to be patient. It did not want to speed up the return to lower inflation at the cost of pushing Australia into recession. Both upside and downside risks meant a higher than usual level of uncertainty, but these were roughly balanced.
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Dec 21, 2023 | 
canberratimes.com.au | Nicki Hutley
With the Clean Energy Finance Corporation confirming $1.9 billion in renewable generation, transmission and storage investment over 2022-23 there are positive signals to the market that Australia can grow its economy on the back of renewables. Strong private sector investment has been stimulated by co-investment from federal and state governments. But much more needs to be done, and governments have more work to do to get the settings right.
