Forget property, it’s time to invest
ORDINARY Aussies who put money into start-ups will get tax breaks, as Malcolm Turnbull tries to kickstart growth.
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Is PM’s innovation what we need?
MIGRANTS will be able to more easily move to Australia and start a business under measures announced to help boost Australia’s innovation.
The dark shadow dogging Turnbull
MALCOLM Turnbull is trying really hard to make us look good overseas. But there’s one hangover he just can’t shake off.
Is the economic apocalypse here?
ONE simple graph that shows the level of investment by Aussie businesses makes it look like they’re throwing in the towel.
Budget faces $38 billion blowout
THE federal budget will be $38 billion worse off over the next four years, largely as a result of the slowdown in the Chinese economy.
The big changes coming to shopping
LONGER retail trading hours, cheaper goods and car rego fees reduced. These are just some of the big changes coming. But the pay-off could be costly.
Shorten’s plan to embarrass PM
SO FAR, “Mr Unpopular” hasn’t been able to land a glove on Malcolm Turnbull. But that could be about to change — in front of a very big audience.
People who could cough up $25bn
IF YOU’RE part of this group of people, look out. There’s a new push to hit you with another $25 billion tax grab.
Call to cut tax breaks for the rich
BILLIONS of dollars of superannuation tax breaks are being given to the Australians who need them the least says an independent think tank.
Lesson we can learn from the Kiwis
LIFTING Australia’s GST rate above 10 per cent would be politically painful, but New Zealand’s experience shows it can be done.
The $40 packet of cigs is coming
THE $40 packet of cigarettes is on the way if Labor gets hold of the federal excise system and implements the ultimate sin tax.
Painful lesson New Zealand can teach us
IT WOULD undoubtedly be painful, both politically and financially. But New Zealand proved this daring policy could work in Australia.
Punishing effect of your traffic jam
WHILE it’s a source of endless frustration, the traffic jam you were stuck in today costs you a lot more than you realise.
Housing crash could make us rich
WE’RE all so distracted by growing house prices that we’ve forgotten about the other way to get rich. So maybe a drop will do us all good.
How to make the tax system fairer
THERE’S been a lot of debate this week about whether to increase the GST but could taxing things that rich people buy more actually make it fairer?
Will the TPP save Oz after mining boom?
DETAILS of the long-awaited and contentious Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal have finally been released. But not everybody is happy.
Homeowners pin hopes on Reserve Bank
MORTGAGE pain is looming for even more Australians, as smaller lenders jump on the rate hike bandwagon. But there is hope of a Reserve Bank cut.
GST changes will ‘hurt Melbourne Cup’
THE Federal Opposition fears changes to the GST will spoil the fun of a flutter on sporting events including the Melbourne Cup carnival.
We ‘swore in blood’ GST would stay at 10%
A LIBERAL senator has vowed to oppose any increase to the GST, saying the Howard Government “swore in blood” the tax wouldn’t exceed 10 per cent.
Most important image in Australia
IT DOESN’T look like much at all: one basic graph, with a few scattered blue dots. But it may determine Australia’s future.
Australia’s forgotten suburbs
CHANCES are you drive through one every day. They’re the parts of Australia where people work hard, but keep getting shafted.
The state failing a whole generation
ONE of our states is struggling, big time. And its stubbornly high unemployment has made a whole generation desperate.
NSW and Vic dominate the states
A BOOMING housing market and population growth have helped NSW and Victoria maintain their domination over other states.
‘They’re manufactured numbers’
FORMER Liberal leader Dr John Hewson has warned the outlook for China is much bleaker than anyone realises, spelling bad news for Australia.
China’s huge new Aussie demand
CHINA has its eyes on the outback, and it has nothing to do with iron ore. There’s something else it can’t get enough of.
‘The problems haven’t changed’
ONE of Australia’s most respected economists has warned that government spending is at levels normally only seen during recessions.
Did WA waste the mining boom?
IT HAS has brought unprecedented riches to the ‘wild west’. But what has Western Australia actually got to show for the mining boom?
RBA says property market cooling
THE red-hot Sydney and Melbourne property markets are showing signs of cooling, according to the Reserve Bank.
PM brings eerie calm to Canberra
SOMETHING quite strange has happened in Australian politics. Something we haven’t seen in a very long time.
Losing weight ‘better than a tax cut’
PUTTING Australia on a diet could produce bigger economic dividends than tax reform or government spending cuts, a shocking new analysis shows.
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