Ross Gittins
Ross Gittins is economics editor of the SMH and an economic columnist for The Age. His books include Gittins' Guide to Economics, Gittinomics and The Happy Economist.
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Economy not likely to drag in the voters
Ross Gittins If the economists' forecasts are right - a big if - the economy is likely to be in worse shape by the time of the election.
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Workers, bosses can be on the same side
Ross Gittins When Peter Reith replaced Labor's Industrial Relations Act with the Workplace Relations Act in 1996, he changed the act's principal objective from the ''prevention and settlement of industrial...
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It's great to have a conscience, now tell us how we'll pay for it
Ross Gittins You may not have noticed, but last week was among the most significant of the Gillard government's term.
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Carbon tax won't hurt much but we don't want to know
Ross Gittins When psychologists study those sects that predict the end of the world on a certain day, they find the leaders rarely willing to admit they were wrong and their true believers rarely willing to admit...
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Why health cover needs no subsidies
Ross Gittins Despite the untiring efforts of Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott to make themselves seem poles apart in their policies - he/she is hopeless, I'm really good - the ideological gap between the two sides...
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Putting the weekend to death
Ross Gittins The push for a 24-hour, seven-day work week is on again. It might be good for business, but is it good for us?
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Workers pay the penalty for one-way flexibility
Ross Gittins Whether or not they realise what they're doing, Australia's business people, economists and politicians are in the process of dismantling the weekend and phasing out public holidays.
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A crack in the wall of xenophobia
Ross Gittins Politicians have long played to age-old fears of outsiders in demonising asylum seekers - but things are changing.
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Stop beating about the bush and talk about Big Australia
Ross Gittins Something significant has happened in this hollow, populist election campaign: the long-standing bipartisan support for strong population growth - Big Australia - has collapsed.
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In time we will get the nasties - but not just yet
Ross Gittins If history is any guide, pretty much all the nasty changes proposed in the Henry tax review will be implemented.
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Jobless fall by the wayside in crusade to harness grey power
Ross Gittins Are you appalled by the greedy decision by the state governments to appropriate a quarter of the hard-won $32-a-week age pension increase from singles living in public housing? Do you share the view...
