Time to bring back JobKeeper
It’s pretty clear that the federal government is going to have to step up with some urgent financial support for Victorian workers.
Terry McCrann
Why this will be Victoria’s last lockdown
Looking into next year we really do now stand on the brink of the beginning of the end. Right now, though, we must get beyond ‘next Thursday in Spring St’.
It’s the lockdown that Australia had to have
Right now, in an essentially unvaccinated Australia, the Victorian lockdown works for the whole country.
Yes, apologise to Holgate and sack AusPost chair
Scott Morrison should have apologised to Christine Holgate long ago, but the chairman and entire board must also be cleaned out.
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Scott’s old-time AAA play
SCOTT Morrison has done a classic Paul Keating — push down on expectations and then over-deliver, writes Terry McCrann.
Numbers not beautiful but Triple-A stays
SCOTT Morrison has done enough to keep our triple-A credit rating. But that won’t necessarily save you from small increases in your home loan rate, writes Terry McCrann.
Trump reality will shape year
IN assessing what might be in store for the economy and for investments, it’s always important to look beyond the short term, writes Terry McCrann.
How bad is Packer’s Hangover II?
NICOLAS Cage only did it once — James Packer has now done it twice, albeit in neither case quite as terminally, writes Terry McCrann.
Why Janet Yellen is Santa Claus
WE’VE waited all year, but Fed head Janet Yellen has finally done it — and transformed the outlook for the entire world, says Terry McCrann.
Macquarie and KKR — it’s hardly Father Christmas
THE most intriguing — and important — question is what exactly do two of the cleverest and greediest ‘guys’ in the proverbial ‘room’ think they are going to get out of this play, writes Terry McCrann.
Next president is the Donald, stupid
WE know people in Canberra can be slow learners, but really, the US election was more than a month ago and in five weeks Trump will become president for at least four years, writes Terry McCrann.
Grounded in unreality
THE seemingly never-ending soap-opera-like saga of Sydney’s second airport is both a depressing comment on the way big infrastructure decisions are — badly — made in Australia, and at the same time a big red flashing light against the seductive suggestion we should embark on an infrastructure-building binge to boost the economy.
After the boom, wait and watch
WE still have to find a post-boom economic dynamic. And take the tough reform decisions to promote it, writes Terry McCrann.
End of the world Version 3.0
FIRST, Brexit was going to tip the British economy into immediate and devastating recession and send global share markets spiralling. Didn’t happen, writes Terry McCrann.
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