Adam Creighton
Adam Creighton is economics correspondent for The Australian newspaper. He started his career at the Reserve Bank and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority before studying Economics at Balliol College, Oxford, as a Commonwealth Scholar. He was a senior economic adviser to the federal Leader of the Opposition, Tony Abbott, in 2010 and wrote full-time for The Economist in 2009
Articles by Adam Creighton
Anti-immigrant troglodytes ignore our rich history
The government’s attack on Australia’s temporary skilled immigration program this week risks undermining confidence in one of the tenets of…... Read more
It doesn’t actually matter who wins the election
It’s the biggest game in town, as some politicians in private like to say. But who wins the federal election…... Read more
Compulsory super is an illogical political rort
When society’s biggest rent-seekers and parasites are in rare and furious agreement, ordinary working men and women should be profoundly…... Read more
Let’s join the Asian Century Asian-style
What do Hong Kong, West Berlin and China’s Shenzen region have in common? They have all prospered as special economic…... Read more
Tinkering with super is just a taxing waste
Assume for a moment that superannuation, compulsory private saving, is a good idea. How should it be taxed? If something…... Read more
Forget middle-class welfare, it’s the upper class on the teat
Forget about middle class welfare. If the government wants to make substantial savings guided by ‘Labor values’, as the Prime…... Read more
This whole quota experiment is for muppets
Calls for quotas for Asians on company boards and in the upper echelons of the public service would provoke ridicule.…... Read more
The tax we have to have
Looks might not kill, but they are certainly a magnet for money. Australian academics Andrew Leigh and Jeff Borland released…... Read more
Christmas, a festival of waste
Christmas is a time of relaxing with family, culinary excesses, and financial extravagance as friends and loved ones splurge on…... Read more
The government can’t make you happy, but it can try
The American constitution’s deference to individual freedom appears quaint even archaic today. The fledgling 18th century government was created to…... Read more
Massive government overspending is our own fault
How much income tax did you pay last week, even within a few hundred dollars? You don’t know. Approximately how…... Read more
Our banks are not as solid as we think they are
If the value of your total assets fell by 6 per cent would you be insolvent? If you are sensible…... Read more
Our politicians have been coddled into banality
It is fashionable to mock the quality of political debate in Australia. Just as bad money drives good money out…... Read more
A little less government, a little more ideology please
Calls for more “evidence-based policy” in Australia are routine. For former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, under whose watch very little…... Read more
The Monty Python script our unis are following
In the forest of reforms that boost Australia’s economic efficiency, one of the biggest and lowest-hanging pieces of fruit remains…... Read more
Sanctimony, sanctimoney, and sanctimoany…
A little over 100 years ago American writer Henry Adams mused that “morality is a private and costly luxury”. Today…... Read more
It sounded loopy, but there was logic behind Gina’s rant
The quickest and most effective means of attracting money to the north of Australia is to declare (for a trial…... Read more
Smaller classes and buckets of cash are no magic solution
Even the hardest-nosed economic rationalist would not begrudge state funding for primary and high schools. Take Adam Smith in 1776:…... Read more
Huge health and education spending is dragging us down
In the 1920s Russia’s economy slumped, only a few years after the Bolsheviks shackled it with communism. To revive it,…... Read more
Big finance isn’t fuelling us, its-holding-us-back
Tight labour laws and excessive government regulation have stifled productivity in this country. But the massive growth of the financial…... Read more
How you are helping the big banks to screw you over
Imagine if the government routinely chipped in half the cost of McDonalds’ and KFC’s bun orders. Other fast food restaurants…... Read more
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