Just weeks out from the 2017 Federal budget Gunnamatta spoke with David Llewellyn Smith and Leith van Onselen about the economic backdrop framing budget decisions, as well as the dynamics of Australia’s key commodity exports and the implications this has for the economic outlook, employment, incomes growth and the housing market. With the federal government and all major political parties baulking at the prospect of addressing Australia’s economic imbalances, while articulating ideology rather than evidence based responses, the discussion covers the symptoms observable in the housing and energy markets, along with the rise of ad hoc, vested interest protecting policy, and the subsequent disenchantment of Australians with mainstream politicians and some of the core mainstream economic policy positions embedded over a generation
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