Wayne Swan
Wayne Swan: How Australia’s housing crisis can be fixed
Forty years ago this week, the Australian Council of Trade Unions backed a motion from the Building Workers Industrial Union for a...
Wayne Swan: 15 years on, Australia still reaps rewards from response to the GFC
What we can see more clearly now than we could then, is that the collapse of Lehman Brothers on this day 15...
Wayne Swan: Superannuation’s benefits continue to stack up as ideologues attack
It wasn’t all that long ago that for most people retirement meant just getting by on the pension. No luxuries, no holidays,...
Decades of industry super profits rebut the spurious claims by vested interests
To listen to some commentators, you would think superannuation was about politics rather than retirement. What is clear after 30 years of...
Wayne Swan: Superannuation is not only about retirement. It helps us survive economic crises
Ten years ago today, Euromoney judged Australia’s Global Financial Crisis response as the best among the world’s developed nations. As treasurer at...
Wayne Swan: How the pandemic has reshaped our politics
Once or twice a century, nations experience cathartic events that shift their very foundations and the general public decides that things must...
Democracy is fragile, and the Liberal Party’s embrace of Trumpism puts Australia in danger
The day after Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in Washington, the Financial Times – the world’s pre-eminent financial journal – observed: “America...
Wayne Swan: Weakening superannuation is a once-in-a-100-year mistake
Australia appears set to make the biggest policy mistake possibly since Federation – wilfully eroding our national savings pool in our greatest...
Wayne Swan: Liberals tearing down the pillars of our superannuation scheme
There are many things that Australia is admired for around the world, but in the economics sphere, nothing is more admired than...