Peter Martin is a Visiting Fellow at the Crawford School of Public Policy, and Business and Economy Editor of The Conversation.

A former Commonwealth Treasury official and former economics editor of The Age, he has reported on economics since 1985.


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Would you pay to quit TikTok and Instagram? You’d be surprised how many would

Social media is a problem for economists. They don’t know how to value it. It has long been…


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Why Australian workers’ true cost of living has climbed far faster than we’ve been told

Why is Prime Minister Anthony Albanese suddenly so keen to deliver extra cost-of-living relief — keen enough to…

24 January 2024



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How new industrial relations laws could finally end wage pain

Imagine you were trying to design a system that would hold back wages. You would design one pretty…

29 November 2022



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Australia needs an honest conversation about tax and budgets

Jim Chalmers is a wily operator. Ahead of delivering his first budget next Tuesday, he has given himself room…

18 October 2022



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