In this MacroBusiness podcast, Gunnamatta and Leith van Onselen unpack the budget outlook, the deindustrialisation of Australia, housing policy failures, energy policy failures, and the nation’s falling productivity growth.

0:00 Introduction

1:00 Why Australia’s budget finances are unsustainable

10:30 Australia is deindustrialising

12:07 Australia should be the richest nation on earth

17:46 Australia’s energy policy idiocy

21:24 Australia’s housing disaster will worsen

38:49 Australia’s productivity is in terminal decline

47:05 Australia should abandon ‘net zero’.

51:39 Australia’s per capita economy is sick