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Author Archives: Warwick Smith
Less trusting, more financially stressed: new data show how Australians feel about their lives
This article was originially published at The Conversation on May 7 and is replublished here under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Kate Lycett, Deakin University; Georgie Frykberg, Deakin University, and Warwick Smith, The University of Melbourne This … Continue reading
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The RBA’s policy deliberately creates unemployment. So why do we treat the jobless so badly?
This article was originally published at The Conversation on April 20, 2026 and is republished under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Warwick Smith, The University of Melbourne The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will look at the … Continue reading
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Is the capital gains tax discount an act of intergenerational ‘bastardry’?
This article is republished from The Conversation on March 19, 2026 under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Warwick Smith, The University of Melbourne Former Treasury Secretary and chair of the Henry Tax Review, Ken Henry, has described … Continue reading
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‘Doughnut economics’ shows how global growth is out of balance – and how we can fix it
Originally published in The Conversation on October 13, 2025 (just catching up a bit on updating this site). Warwick Smith, The University of Melbourne A new update to an influential economic theory called “Doughnut Economics” shows a global economy on … Continue reading
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Appearance on The Project – Channel 10
This is a bit of a catch up post from last year when I was interviewed on The Project. After federal Treasury’s Measuring What Matters framework came out, there was a lot of criticism about the timeliness of the data … Continue reading
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Dipping the Budget’s toe in the waters of wellbeing
Originally published at The Mandarin. Last night, treasurer Jim Chalmers cautiously set Australia on its wellbeing economy journey. This government’s first Budget sat against a backdrop of inflationary pressures, global conflict, gloomy outlooks, floods and cost of living pressures. Behind … Continue reading
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Chalmers hasn’t delivered a wellbeing budget, but it’s a step in the right direction
Warwick Smith, The University of Melbourne It was billed as Australia’s first wellbeing budget. But, five months into a new government, with so many economic fires to fight, Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ first budget was never going to be that. Instead, … Continue reading
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Beyond GDP: Chalmers’ historic moment to build wellbeing
Warwick Smith, The University of Melbourne Australia’s new federal treasurer, Jim Chalmers, spoke regularly in opposition about a well-being budget and the need to measure more than just the traditional economic indicators. He was even mocked for it by his … Continue reading
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RN Breakfast interview on stamp duties and land taxes
States try tax reform to fix housing affordability On RN Breakfast with Fran Kelly I was interviewed by Max Chalmers for this segment on RN Breakfast about the transfer from stamp duties to land tax that is happening in the … Continue reading
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Tagged ABC Radio National, Economic policy, housing, land tax, taxation
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Doughnut economics article turned into a podcast episode
I was asked to read my Conversation article, that was also republished by the ABC and The New Daily, for an episode of the Climactic podcast. https://omny.fm/shows/climactic-1/warwick-smith-stay-in-the-doughnut-not-the-hole-ho/embed
Reconstructing Economics 