It’s official – things are crook
The latest GDP figures paint a picture of an economy that is sick, seriously sick. And if you look deeper, the problems are even worse than they seem.
Terry McCrann
Smashing NBN success story
The NBN plan to quintuple broadband speeds is a further validation of the Abbott government’s ditching of Kevin Rudd’s all-fibre fantasy.
It’s time to smash social media
Facebook, Google and other ‘big tech’ must be made to operate in accordance with the same laws that every other company and Australian adult has to.
Power regulators betray all of us
The ludicrously named Australian Energy Regulator and the Australian Energy Market Operator have been exposed as compromising their obligations.
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Be alert not yet alarmed as shares head lower
What we are seeing in the US is a growing realisation, with real-world consequences, that the ‘Goldilocks scenario’ maybe ain’t going to be happening.
Bullock’s huge policy message
It will take a big jump in the quarterly inflation rate, above 1.5 per cent, to spark a rate hike at the RBA’s pivotal Melbourne Cup Day meeting next month.
Why Woodside’s Voice support will backfire
Woodside joined with much of the big end of town in supporting The Voice. But recent events show it could become one of the ‘Yes’ vote’s biggest losers.
Goyder right to stick it out
The hysteria over Qantas has probably – hopefully – reached its high-water mark with the entirely bi-partisan assault on chairman Richard Goyder on Wednesday.
No rate rise Tuesday but still a chance in 2024
New RBA governor Michele Bullock won’t raise rates on Tuesday but surging wages – egged on by the off-the-leash IR minister Tony Bourke – could actually force hikes in 2024.
Seven gone just two to go
Only Queensland’s Annastacia Palaszczuk and the ACT’s Andrew Barr remain of the nine state, territory and federal leaders who ‘led’ us through the Covid years.
Yet again, a female successor is handed a poisoned chalice
Jacinta Allan is set to inherit a fiscal disaster that makes the ‘sins’ of the Cain-Kirner “guilty party” look like petty cash in comparison.
Jobs report flops big time
The government’s new Employment White Paper is a futile exercise with Tony Burke’s IR changes threatening to punch back hard against what little there is to stimulate jobs.
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