John Hawkins
Head, Canberra School of Government, University of Canberra
I have a PhD in political science and Masters degrees in Economics, Arts (History) and Applied Finance. I have headed the economics division at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and been a senior economist with the Reserve Bank of Australia, Bank for International Settlements and Australian Treasury and secretary to the Senate Economics Committee.
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Treasurer Jim Chalmers has called his budget “ambitious in the face of adversity”. Speaking to reporters in the lockup on Tuesday, he acknowledged his latest budget is “not exactly the same budget we would have handed down in February for obvious reasons”. The main adversity is a Middle East war that has disrupted around a…
After two decades of declining cash use, Australians are handing over more banknotes and coins for regular purchases again, a new survey by the Reserve Bank has found. The decline in the use of physical money had accelerated during the COVID pandemic, but bottomed out between 2022 and 2025. Around 15 per cent of payments…
