Writer
Peter Martin
Peter Martin is Business and Economy Editor of The Conversation and a Visiting Fellow at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the ANU. A former Commonwealth Treasury official, he has worked as Economics Correspondent for the ABC, Economics Editor of The Age, and host of The Economists on ABC RN. In 2016 Peter was made a Distinguished Alumni of Flinders University and was made a member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2019.
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The Chemist Warehouse deal is a sideshow: pharmacies are ripe for bigger disruption
There’s something curious about the proposed merger between Chemist Warehouse and Sigma Healthcare. Continue reading »
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Podcast: Time for radical tax reform on climate change, housing affordability
In the first of Pearls and Irritations’ new podcast series, Peter Martin interviews Ross Gittins on 50 years at the Sydney Morning Herald and the radical tax reform necessary to address climate change and Australia’s housing affordability crisis. Continue reading »
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How Albanese could tweak negative gearing to save money and build more new homes
There are two things the prime minister needs to get into his head about tax. One is that saying he won’t make any further changes no longer works. The other is that negative gearing doesn’t do much to get people into homes. Continue reading »
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We could make most Australians richer and still save billions – it’s not too late to fix the Stage 3 tax cuts
The Albanese government is about to have to make a really important decision. Continue reading »
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Breaking up ABC HQ suits its competitors, not the ABC
Of all the Sydney-centric notions, the idea that the ABC would better represent Australia if it moved its programmakers from Ultimo in Sydney to Parramatta in Sydney is about as Sydney-centric as you can get. Continue reading »
