The debate ought to be about whether we should have spent big. It was good that we did. But we need to "reload" and get the financial system under control.
It is thought that it doesn't help much to cut official interest rates toward or beyond zero, and maybe it doesn't, but new research suggests the answer has a lot to do with the housing market.
With new risks threatening the balance of financial markets, the world has not heeded the lessons of the global financial crisis, says UNSW Business School Director of Global Finance, Fariborz Moshirian.
Predictions of house price falls are unreliable, but there are some things we know for sure about the housing market in the next few years, says UNSW Business School's Jonathan Reeves.
Problems with section 44 of the Constitution have absorbed a great deal of time, money and energy over the past year – politicians should now work towards genuine reform.
