The Latest Breaking News from Productivity Commission

Gateway cities around the world are so important to national prosperity that they need to be actively supported and with customised arrangements. Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown is right when he says a new relationship between government and the council is required, argues Mark Thomas

What needs to change to greatly reduce youth homelessness in Australia? Now is the time to find answers to this question, and not just because it’s National Homelessness Week.

Shrink union membership and reduce the ability to strike and you provide a double whammy to hopes for better wages

Since 2005, annual labour productivity growth (growth in output per hour worked) has been the best part of one percentage point below its long-term average in Australia and other developed countries.

The slide in Australia’s labour productivity – real gross domestic product per hour worked – has become a real concern. In the past year, labour productivity has fallen 4.6%.

Parents in this remote region in WA face wait times of up to two years for childcare, due to a shortage of qualified staff that's having a huge impact on the community.

Exclusive: Slow response times and high cost of parts make program unviable, third-party repairers say

The Productivity Commission’s nine-volume report has a tough central message. It says productivity policy has to focus on the areas that have proven the hardest in the past, rather than those where previously progress has been most readily achieved.

Economists too often use the word as a synonym for company profits. Why make more with less if it doesn’t improve living standards?