Time to stop passing the buck
Treasurer Jim Chalmers needs to take a close look in the mirror to see the real reason Aussies are doing it tough.
Terry McCrann
The evil of inflation deepens
A nasty new edge to the pain of inflation has emerged in recent years, widening the gap between the haves and the have nots.
State budgets: ugly to ultra-ugly
Queenslanders should take the money and run – straight to the ballot box in October, to throw out the incumbent Miles-Dick government.
The voting irony in Costello’s fall
Peter Costello has enjoyed the sort of support from shareholders he could have only dreamt about as a politician. Too bad no one’s asking them what they think.
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PM and a team of incompetents
From destroying the electricity system to overseeing a growing migration crisis, Labor’s ministry of incompetents have proven to be way out of their depth.
Why Bullock half pivoted
All eyes will turn to Thursday’s potentially explosive unemployment numbers after the RBA’s ‘half pivot’ on Tuesday.
RBA’s risky business on rates decision
For the first time since the 1990s, the RBA is making an interest rate decision the day before the release of the ABS’ quarterly GDP figures.
Myer and Lew’s worthy choice
Olivia Wirth’s appointment as the new boss of Myer comes amid a leadership shake-up that underlines the influence of major shareholder Solomon Lew.
Beware the Bitcoin frenzy
Bitcoin hit a new record recently, which just goes to prove how detached the price is from anything approaching common sense.
GST carve-up farce time
The GST was supposed to have been about tax reform. It quickly became a grubby combination of bureaucratic meddling and self-interested political machination.
New fuel efficiency standard is ‘stupid and dishonest’
The Albanese-Chalmers-Bowen government’s so-called ‘Fuel Efficiency Standard’ is a classic example of Orwellian Newspeak that has nothing to do with real fuel efficiency.
Two time bombs ticking away
There were two explosive time bombs ticking away in the detail of the GDP numbers, and they threaten to put the RBA in an impossible position.
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