Michael Pascoe
Michael Pascoe: Stop growing the landlord class and focus on ‘taboo’ public housing
Funny thing about the various state and federal governments responses to the housing crisis: They don’t mention “public housing”. “Affordable housing” is...
Michael Pascoe: Higher education rates also key to generational gap on home ownership
There’s a danger in having an insight you think might be novel; there’s a tendency to fall in love with it and...
Michael Pascoe: You want more RBA independence, Treasurer? Cop this
“So you think the Reserve Bank board lacks ticker, Jim? You think the focus on getting inflation down quickly needs to be...
Michael Pascoe: How the RBA is making inflation worse
A question for the freshly smacked Reserve Bank board on Tuesday: Is there a better example of the deficiencies of monetary policy...
Michael Pascoe: The defence review written before it was started
The National Defence Statement 2023 is nothing if not predictable, going all the way with the USA, quickly rubber stamping the nuclear-powered...
Michael Pascoe: The fallacy at the heart of the Reserve Bank of Australia review
At the heart of the much-heralded review of the Reserve Bank of Australia is a fallacy: That the Australian economy can be...
Michael Pascoe: The darling buds of May promise the flowering of reforms
There are drums beating in the policy jungle that the first days of May might finally see Australia commit to necessary economic...
Michael Pascoe: Tweaks won’t fix housing crisis while half of Australia suffers
Nothing demonstrates the myopia of Australian political leadership better than the way the national housing crisis apparently happened overnight. Suddenly we have...
Michael Pascoe: Menzies knew housing couldn’t be left to ‘the market’
For anyone who actually cares about our housing crisis, it is intensely depressing to watch the parade of speeches, reports and editorials...
Michael Pascoe: To what legacy do our leaders aspire? Peter Dutton might want to ask himself
The Easter weekend is rich with thoughts of death and resurrection and purpose for Christian believers – and this Easter is a...