Essays & Reportage
20 March 2024
Queensland premier Steven Miles is learning an old lesson about sporting venues: sometimes it is best to love the ones you have
National Affairs
28 September 2023
Daniel Andrews’s legacy is written across Victoria in concrete and steel
Books & Arts
15 May 2023
Do asset managers own the world?
National Affairs
12 March 2021
Australia has invested heavily in a construction-fuelled recovery, but at what cost?
National Affairs
25 November 2020
A budget for Covid recovery ventures into contentious territory
Essays & Reportage
28 July 2019
Cutting working conditions won’t get us out of the current malaise
National Affairs
28 May 2019
A state budget that’s somehow in surplus still plays the wrong kind of politics with infrastructure
National Affairs
14 May 2019
Election 2019 | Two parties, three promises, three problems
National Affairs
10 May 2018
The prime minister and the Victorian premier are talking infrastructure after a long federal funding drought
National Affairs
2 May 2018
Cautious in parts, extravagant in others, the Victorian budget is built on a boom
National Affairs
10 May 2017
The threat from Tony Abbott is no longer taken seriously, and the budget is all the better as a result
National Affairs
3 May 2017
The Victorian government needs to take a longer view in framing budget policy
National Affairs
6 March 2017
Forget what you’ve heard about infrastructure – it might be time to put the politics back in
National Affairs
6 March 2017
The WA premier has drawn the wrong lesson from Mike Baird’s 2015 election win
National Affairs
20 December 2016
The government still won’t acknowledge why the deficit isn’t going away, but it’s not too late to take some simple steps
National Affairs
18 August 2016
In his last speech in the job, Glenn Stevens once again made a persuasive case for more infrastructure spending, writes Saul Eslake
National Affairs
19 February 2016
Infrastructure Australia’s latest report got lost in the tax debate this week, writes Tim Colebatch. It deserves a closer look
National Affairs
20 October 2015
Unreported data confirms that state governments are passing up the opportunity to invest in the future, writes Tim Colebatch. There’s never been a better time to…
National Affairs
4 May 2015
This week’s Victorian budget has passed up the opportunity to borrow at historically cheap rates to fund essential infrastructure, writes Tim Colebatch
National Affairs
8 April 2015
With a dramatically rising population and falling infrastructure spending, the pressure for action is growing, writes Tim Colebatch