There’s quite a few things that need to happen here in terms of rebooting the economy and getting growth picking up next year, but obviously with an eye to paying down debt.

We’re starting to get conflicting health advice from the Commonwealth level and Victoria in particular about whether or not it's actually safe to have schools operating in that face-to-face learning.

There's a lot of the hallmark here of the first Rudd Government stimulus, in terms of payments which will be directed to low income earners, on the pension and potentially Newstart, I think that's a big tick.

I mention John Stone because he taught me that being on top of Australian domestic economic data and trends and also political issues was a necessary condition to be a good analyst, it wasn’t a sufficient condition.

I suspect that senators will be pursuing Mr [Steven] Kennedy this morning about what is the likely impact on the economy of the coronavirus in the June quarter

There's a strong expectations management game from the Treasurer and the Government which is understandable given what we're seeing unfold across global markets.

James is asked about the recent stories in the news about wages theft. "What does this tell you, that these big companies are doing this on purpose or the system's too complicated?"

Ausgrid weren't aware about the official knocking on the head of their request for army assistance. Ausgrid was saying: "oh no we don't want taxpayers to have to pay for anything”. But if you call in the army, that's essentially what happens.