Going sane or insane we will still need gas
The federal government’s proposed gas-fired power plant is eminently sensible, unlike the rest of our energy aspirations.
Terry McCrann
‘Shock’ wages surge blows the budget
Wages growth over the year to the June quarter is going to approach 2 per cent, meaning it’s taken just one week after the budget for one of the key Treasury forecasts to blow up.
Utter lunacy: IEA’s fantasy future will waste trillions of dollars
The International Energy Agency has gone completely troppo and should be retitled the International Fantasy Agency after the release of its roadmap for the world to reach Net Zero by 2050.
Crown directors bet the house on Star
The Crown Resorts board has effectively embraced ‘The Big Merger’ with rival casino group Star Entertainment – but they want a higher price.
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Donald trumps the IMF
SO, the very much “inside the (Washington) beltway” chaps — non-gender specific — from the International Monetary Fund have some gratuitous advice for us “down under deplorables”, writes Terry McCrann.
Malcolm Turnbull’s last chance
MALCOLM Turnbull — and even more the “dead men (non-gender specific) walking” sitting on the backbenches behind him — has one last chance, writes Terry McCrann.
Trump’s a man who’ll get things done
THE biggest lesson Australia can take from Donald Trump’s astonishing victory is it makes no sense to keep attacking the foundation of our entire economy, writes Terry McCrann.
Terry McCrann: It’s not the end of the world
THE plunge in our share market was absolutely understandable and indeed rational but also completely stupid, writes Terry McCrann.
The RBA’s great dilemma
FOR 50 years, the Reserve Bank had a clear choice — fight recession or fight inflation. Now it is far more complicated, says Terry McCrann.
Super rules map a new path
THE government isn’t just changing the superannuation rules, it is completely up-ending the entire lifetime investment landscape for every Australian, writes Terry McCrann.
Terry McCrann: Australia must learn to live with China
Two weeks ago Treasurer Scott Morrison personally rejected the bids from China and what might be called China-lite — Hong Kong — to buy control of the New South Wales power network, writes Terry McCrann.
The cost of Malcolm’s masterstroke
THE Prime Minister’s bank probe plan is a combination of utter uselessness and dangerous offensiveness that only Malcolm Turnbull could possibly conceive, says Terry McCrann.
One rule that’s easily fixed
POLITICIANS’ travel and negative gearing deal is a rort that should have eneded years ago, writes Terry McCrann. So end it now.
It’s all in the future on super
IT’S going to be a long eight weeks of ever-escalating and ever-expanding spin and counter-spin, so let’s get the facts right on what the two sides are promising to do to superannuation, writes Terry McCrann.
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