Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra
I have a PhD in political science and Masters degrees in Economics and Applied Finance. I have headed the economics division at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and been a senior economist with the Reserve Bank of Australia, Bank for International Settlements and Australian Treasury and secretary to the Senate Economics Committee.
As treasurer, Bill Hayden set Labor on the path to economic rationalism
Oct 24, 2023 09:21 am UTC| Economy Central Banks
Former Labor leader and governor-general Bill Hayden, whose death was announced on Saturday, is rightly being remembered for introducing Australias first universal healthcare scheme Medibank, which lives on today as...
Are NFTs really dead and buried? All signs point to 'yes'
Oct 02, 2023 06:23 am UTC| Technology
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are in dire straits. With the market in a severe downturn, its safe to assume the NFT bubble has well and truly burst. It was never clear why these digital collectables traded for such large...
Jul 27, 2023 08:46 am UTC| Economy
Australias inflation rate has fallen for the second consecutive quarter. After reaching a 30-year high of 7.8% at the end of 2022, annual inflation as measured by the Bureau of Statistics quarterly Consumer Price Index...
No, the budget does not make further interest rate rises more likely
May 11, 2023 15:50 pm UTC| Economy
Inflation, as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said, is a tax on the poor. The great budget challenge for him and Treasurer Jim Chalmers has been to deliver help to Australians struggling with cost-of-living...
Inflation still the 'defining challenge' as Australia's economic activity slows
Mar 04, 2023 12:21 pm UTC| Economy
Australia has recovered better than most from the COVID pandemic. As measured by gross domestic product (GDP), the economy is now 7% larger than it was before the pandemic. Over 2022, the economy expanded by 2.7% more...
Imagine if each of us could direct where our taxes were spent. Meet TaxTrack
Oct 24, 2022 17:26 pm UTC| Economy
Ahead of this weeks budget, Treasurer Jim Chalmers says he wants Australians to prepare for a serious conversation about how to pay for the services we need. Weve developed a proposal to make that conversation more...
Cryptocurrencies are great for gambling – but lousy at liberating our money from big central banks
Jul 04, 2022 16:27 pm UTC| Digital Currency
The dream that decentralised finance or DeFi can free the monetary system from the clutches of governments and banks has helped launch 20,000 cryptocurrencies. But with 2022 proving to be more of a crypto-nightmare ...
Why is the government proposing caps on international students and how did we get here?
Gabon: post-coup dialogue has mapped out path to democracy – now military leaders must act
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects