Ashmit Vyas

Prosperity, not emissions reduction, is the best climate policy

6 August 2025 4:13 pm

Climate anxiety has long weighed on the national conscience. Moulded by ominous depictions of boiling oceans, sinking continents, and mass…

The real reason the Coalition will lose the election

24 April 2025 5:59 pm

‘Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.’ It’s the kind of quote that makes your eyes roll – insipid, overused, and…

A crash course in tariffs

11 February 2025 12:16 pm

‘Tariff’ has staked an early claim to the title of 2025 Word of the Year. Highly relevant and commonly misunderstood…

Out of touch, out of office

10 November 2024 1:41 pm

Lessons from a catastrophic campaign

The ‘corporate greed’ fallacy

22 August 2024 10:55 pm

At a recent campaign event in North Carolina, Kamala Harris became the latest politician to diagnose corporate greed as the…

Misdiagnosed problems and misguided solutions

22 April 2024 2:00 am

Why economists must remain devoted to efficiency

Sam Kerr and a case study in identity politics

14 March 2024 3:00 am

Still fresh with pride from the Matildas’ inspirational World Cup campaign, Australians woke up last Wednesday morning to the news…

The media’s lazy discourse on the gender pay gap

9 March 2024 8:37 pm

The so-called gender pay gap has been on everybody’s lips of late. The launch of WGEA’s comprehensive database has revealed…