Overseas student numbers open new election battlefront
Clamping down on the number of international students will require courage against a likely avalanche of self-interested resistance. It remains to be seen whether it can be done.
Judith Sloan
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Vision splendid evaporates in harsh light of practicality
There are many reasons to be fearful of the Albanese government’s plans for the future. Analysis points to its high-stakes industrial game.
Labor can’t hide its spectacular hypocrisy on gas
The likelihood is that Labor’s gas strategy will go nowhere and a few years down the track, as we face even higher electricity prices, rolling blackouts, people will be asking how this has been allowed to happen. Just don’t blame Madeleine King.
This is a showbag budget with plenty of goodies
Sensible economists know these sorts of measures are stimulatory; they simply push price pressures into the future, when subsidies are finally removed. But Jim Chalmers is hoping that the laws of economics don’t apply to him.
Victoria’s infrastructure idiocy puts feds on hook for bailout
The sad reality is that Victoria has now very little going for it, apart from rapid population growth spurred by excessive international migration. It’s a masterclass in mismanagement.
ALP can’t muddle its way out of migration blunders
The real issue at the budget is whether the permanent migration numbers actually matter that much when compared with the inflow of temporary migrants on uncapped visas.
When short-term politics trumps responsible economics
The budget should not be making any additional demands on the economy; indeed, it should be withdrawing any stimulus.
In annals of dodgy policy, you can’t go past NDIS
The special GST deal for Western Australia is often singled out by economists as the worst public policy mistake of the century. But it’s got nothing on the NDIS.
Albo’s plan to subsidise billionaires’ projects an electric shocker
You wouldn’t buy a fridge that only works a third of the time or a stove that only works a third of the time. But we are expected to believe renewable energy is the route to cheaper electricity and economic prosperity.
Spare us this dog’s breakfast of failed thinking
Just because other countries are introducing wasteful policies, this shouldn’t be an excuse to follow suit.
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