Selwyn Cornish

Nov 29, 2024 | theaustraliatoday.com.au | John Hawkins |Selwyn Cornish

By John Hawkins and Selwyn CornishOn Thursday night, after a whirlwind day in Canberra, the Senate finally passed the federal government’s long-delayed amendments to the Reserve Bank Act. The reforms will create two separate boards for the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) – one will be focused on monetary policy, the other on governance. The idea of having two boards emerged from a landmark independent review of the Reserve Bank, which reported back in March last year.

Nov 28, 2024 | theconversation.com | John Hawkins |Selwyn Cornish

On Thursday night, after a whirlwind day in Canberra, the Senate finally passed the federal government’s long-delayed amendments to the Reserve Bank Act. The reforms will create two separate boards for the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) – one will be focused on monetary policy, the other on governance. The idea of having two boards emerged from a landmark independent review of the Reserve Bank, which reported back in March last year.

Mar 7, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Selwyn Cornish

Review Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950, by Bruce Caldwell and Hansjörg Klausinger (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2022), pp. 840. First published: 07 March 2024 No abstract is available for this article. References Skidelsky, R. (1992), John Maynard Keynes: The Economist as Saviour 1920–1937. Macmillan, London. Skidelsky, R. (2000), John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain 1937–1946. Macmillan, London. Skidelsky, R. (2024), ‘ Small Man, Big Ideas’, The Spectator, 13 January, pp. 24–6.

Dec 3, 2023 | theconversation.com | Selwyn Cornish |John Hawkins

These days, we take for granted that the value of the Australian dollar fluctuates against other currencies, changing thousands of times a day and at times jumping or falling quite a lot in the space of a week. But for most of Australia’s history, the value of the Australian dollar – and the earlier Australian pound – was “” to either gold, pound sterling, the US dollar or to a value of a basket of currencies.

Dec 3, 2023 | au.lifestyle.yahoo.com | Selwyn Cornish |John Hawkins

These days, we take for granted that the value of the Australian dollar fluctuates against other currencies, changing thousands of times a day and at times jumping or falling quite a lot in the space of a week. But for most of Australia’s history, the value of the Australian dollar – and the earlier Australian pound – was “” to either gold, pound sterling, the US dollar or to a value of a basket of currencies.