Ross Gittins

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Ross Gittins

Economics Editor April 9, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The voters’ insistence that the election campaign must be about the cost of living has been a godsend to both major parties. They can look as if they’re lowering electricity and gas prices and avoid talking about their failure to tackle climate change.

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Ross Gittins

Economics Editor April 7, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. At last, we know enough about President Donald Trump’s opening move on tariffs to start thinking about what it all means. By imposing tariffs on America’s imports, he’s shot his economy in the foot, but the rest of the world decides how bad it’s likely to be by what we do in response.

2 weeks ago | watoday.com.au | Ross Gittins

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3 weeks ago | johnmenadue.com | Ross Gittins

For most people, the simple answer to Peter Dutton’s repeated question — are you better off today than you were three years ago? — is “no, I’m not”. But if Dutton can convince us this is the key question we need to answer in this election, he’ll have conned us into giving him an easy run into government. Why? Because it’s the wrong question. It’s the question of a high-pressure salesman. A question that makes the problem seem a lot simpler than it is.

3 weeks ago | johnmenadue.com | Ross Gittins

The independent economist and former Treasury officer Chris Richardson, the leader of Treasury-in-Exile and thus chief apostle of fiscal rectitude, does the country a favour with his eternal campaigning to keep budget deficits and public debt levels low. It works like Defence, where the retired generals do the talking for the serving generals, whose opinions must be expressed only to their political masters in private.