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.
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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.
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.
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.
Only one real option for RBA
The latest inflation data has left the RBA with only one real option at its next meeting. It won’t seriously consider a hike, but nor are cuts on the horizon.
Big two do a super job
Those laying into our supermarket operators would do well to consider the other options. North Korea anyone?
Ecstasy could turn to agony for iron ore giants
Australia’s three resources giants generated $55bn in profit from digging up and shipping off iron ore, mostly to China, which is why the corporate ecstasy could turn to agony.
Original URL: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/journalists/terry-mccrann/page/7