Richard Holden

Treasury boss Steven Kennedy has helped usher in a budget prioritising jobs and economic growth not debt and deficit.

Winners Single parents, who will have greater ability to re-access the property market due to the government’s new Family Home Guarantee which will reduce deposit requirements for single parents with dependent children. Small and medium business. The government has extended full expensing of capital expenditure until 30 June 2023 and the temporary loss carry-back is also […]

The rules governing dark money — aka ‘political donations’ — in this country are a joke. Surely it’s time they changed.

The country has gone from having a large infection rate to having herd immunity within its reach. This, in turn, has allowed it to open up the economy with all the benefits that flow from that.

The European Union, Japan and South Korea have already committed to net-zero emissions by 2050. China’s net-zero target is 2060. With the US joining the fold, the implications for Australia could be huge.

The recessions some of us grew up with in the early 1980s and 1990s were “business cycle” recessions. In 2020 we face a different sort of shock.

Using private providers is a good option when keeping costs low is more important than high quality. This was not such a case.

There has already been a fair number of jobs lost to automation over recent decades — from factory workers to bank tellers. In the coming decade, we might see radically larger numbers of jobs lost to automation, thanks to advances in machine learning and other technologies.

In truth, New Zealand’s wellbeing budget idea isn’t exactly a new one, and for years Australia’s treasury was among those leading the way.

Markets require regulators. But what happens when regulators meant to check individual interests fail to promote the public interest?