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Jim Chalmers' economic roundtable will likely present some low-hanging fruit around regulation but hefty tax reform will be more challenging for him to grasp.

Despite its emphatic election loss, the depleted coalition could still reclaim at least one inner-city seat from an incumbent teal independent.

Jim Chalmers has acknowledged there's tension between fiscal and monetary policy, but argues the government and the central bank have the same objective.

When the Greens proposed an extra super-profits tax on the excessive part of really excessive profits last week, business and the government acted as if the sky was about to fall in.

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Next week the Labor Party will hold its national conference in Brisbane. It’s the first face-to-face conference in five years. These conferences don’t have anything like the bite they once did, but there’s still a chance for the party’s rank and file to have a shout about issues. More than…

This week’s appointment of Wayne Swan’s former chief of staff Chris Barrett to head the Productivity Commission puts the annual Trade and Assistance Review it released this month under a more searching spotlight than usual.

The Treasurer's upcoming budget will be difficult. So difficult that it’s unlikely to see any reforms to rein in spending or grow revenue .

Chalmers' budget has no surpluses, only deficit and debt. His “big national conversation” needs to be about why that’s OK.