Ross Gittins
Ross Gittins is the Economics Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald.
- Opinion
- Tax reform
There’s an easy way to plug a budget black hole, at no cost to voters
Do Australian consumers rate higher than foreign companies? Next month’s budget is the test.
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- Political leadership
Cost of living? We should be more concerned about something else
New fault lines have opened up in Australian politics since I’ve been away. And they are more of a worry than the cost of living.
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- Opinion
- Hospitals
Ross Gittins spent 44 days in ICU and almost died. This is his story
Our economics editor is on the mend. Here he recounts his medical misadventure that began on the other side of the world.
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- Opinion
- Home loans
The RBA says changing rates won’t raise house prices. I wouldn’t be so sure
The biggest and most pressing economic problem Australia faces is nothing new: the ever-worsening ability to afford to own the home you live in.
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- Climate policy
Trump says climate change is a hoax. Are we in safer hands with the ‘commos’?
China is the great contradiction. It’s the world’s biggest single emitter, accounting for about 30 per cent of global emissions, but it’s the country doing most to move to renewables.
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- Opinion
- Wellbeing
Seeking the positive-sum economy where everyone wins a prize
Progressive economists have been banging on about “abundance”, but what’s it all about? Labor’s Andrew Leigh has explained it.
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- Retirement living
More Boomers are choosing not to retire. Why? They don’t want to
One in four 70-year-old men are still working, up from one in ten 20 years ago. And about 10 per cent of men in their late 70s are still working.
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- Opinion
- Paris Agreement
Albanese takes his usual each-way bet on climate change
If there was an Oscar for fooling the punters, the PM and his climate change minister would win it.
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- Opinion
- AI
AI: Much ado about something that one day may be important
World-changing technologies such as artificial intelligence are never as wonderful as the marketing department claimed, nor as terrible as their critics feared.
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- Foreign investment
We’re going up in the financial world, but no one’s noticed
Australia may be on its way to becoming a “switcher nation” – moving from a global debtor to a global creditor.
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