Australians are getting poorer but our Treasurer speaks with such certainty that many voters probably reckon he must really know his stuff. His National Press Club appearance, however, exposed how clueless he really is.
The Whyalla rescue was always going to soak up a chunk of SA’s pre-election budget but spending for the rest of the state is looking strikingly sparse, writes Paul Starick. Here’s why.
With the country’s finances in much, much worse shape than predicted, you’re probably wondering how Jim Chalmers could spend so much money and still leave Australians worse off.
If Labor really cared about bracket creep, they would move to index tax brackets for inflation as they do in a host of other countries including the US, writes James Morrow.
EVIDENCE suggests the PM’s ‘trickle-down’ company tax cuts pledge won’t prove true. In Canada it has been “one of greatest public policy blunders of recent times”.
FEDERAL governments should drop the facade about being committed to infrastructure projects if it’s going to constantly rewrite the rules, as the PM has with his M1 upgrade offer.
A BIGGER collection of fundamentalist, social knuckle draggers, moral authoritarians, backward-looking, illiberal, obstructionist and self-centred political wannabes and opportunists is hard to imagine.
RICHARD Di Natale may have taken the Greens closer to the centre since becoming leader but he hasn’t made a dent on their high-spending philosophy, writes Ellen Whinnett.
BILL Shorten went to a strip club but left ‘once I realised what it was’. Funny, Kevin Rudd had much the same experience in a New York strip club in 2003.
IN sickness and in health, the PM has pounded the pavement but he doesn’t want anyone to get too excited for fear they will vote their way out of an unhappy marriage.
FORMER Greens leader Bob Brown has been flitting around Australia during this election campaign, shoring up support for a party which will be his legacy.
POLITICAL parties spend tens of millions on TV ads even though few of us see them. So is it a waste of money or is the social media ‘wake’ they cause worth the risk?
RESPONDING to an emotional speech taking aim at the plebiscite for same-sex marriage, Scott Morrison decided to play the victim.
THE worst thing about Labor’s attack on negative gearing is not what it might or might not do to property prices, but the way it would seriously hurt the battler property investors, writes Terry McCrann.
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