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.
Peter's recent articles
28 June 2024
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.
12 February 2024
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 Australias housing affordability crisis.
7 February 2024
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 wont make any further changes no longer works. The other is that negative gearing doesnt do much to get people into homes.
17 November 2023
We could make most Australians richer and still save billions its not too late to fix the Stage 3 tax cuts
The Albanese government is about to have to make a really important decision.
21 June 2021
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.
21 February 2018
Relax, there's no need to follow Trump on company tax - yet
We were mugs to believe what we were told in the election about property prices. The Prime Minister said if negative gearing went and capital gains were better taxed, prices would be smashed. His Treasurer said it would take a sledgehammer to prices.