Why we won’t see a budget surplus again
Even in a perfect world Treasury is still tipping a budget deficit of at least $40bn in a decade’s time.
Terry McCrann
Wall Street provides timely reminder of reality
A sharp drop on Wall St should be a timely reminder to Australia that everything we do or try to do is ultimately hostage to the actions of three men who live far from our shores.
Treasury stuffs up, so why trust it now?
The only thing that can be said with absolute certainty about the federal budget is that every figure in it will be wrong. So why should we trust the numbers?
Eyes on poll day as cash splash keeps us in happy daze
In simple terms $104bn has dropped miraculously from a bright blue fiscal sky into Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s lap – and he’s promptly gone out and spent $96bn of it.
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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.
Thanks a billion for Forrest fortune
LITTLE more than a year ago Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest stood shakily on the threshold of joining two fellow billionaires in being “de-billionairised”, 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.
Labor totally out of gear
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.
Budget just hanging on
WE have the Government campaigning on a company tax cut policy that has no hope of being implemented if it wins, writes 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.
The world won’t stop spinning
A FUNNY thing happened on the way to the election. Everything and nothing, writes Terry McCrann.
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.
Clear fiscal view, but one huge unknown
TREASURER Scott Morrison has delivered the first “reality” Budget we’ve seen in years, but there is one big blind spot, writes Terry McCrann.
Our week of pure irony
FROM fast trains to higher taxes, it was a week of bitter irony after bitter irony, says Terry McCrann.
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