Tim Wilson took advantage of Jim Chalmers’ horrific and unfair tax on unrealised gains to clinch the Goldstein seat, despite the Liberal Party’s hefty election losses around the country.
China was a major beneficiary of globalisation, so will be looking for ways to salvage parts of the model. Australia will do the same.
The Albanese government’s re-election honeymoon will be over soon, with its controversial superannuation policy set to trigger billions in withdrawals. There are also Trump-related market dangers.
Forecast budget deficits and Albanese’s election spendathon will coalesce just as two other unstoppable forces hit, forcing every working Australian to re-examine their job.
Albanese’s big win heralds revolutionary changes to business and savings that amount to an unprecedented attack. The Coalition failed to highlight this and so deserves the ravaging in the polls.
Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton’s election promises will require big tax rises or substantial spending cuts. If that doesn’t happen, Australia’s AAA credit rating is in danger.
It is incredible in our democracy that we could have an election campaign with a vicious tax that will hurt 2.5 million people on the table and not see the Coalition embrace it as a major issue.
Whoever is elected prime minister of Australia on May 3 will be able to deliver Donald Trump potentially the best news the US President has received since his inauguration.
Surveys that say Gen Zers feel little affinity with Anzac Day don’t do them justice. Pure history might not motivate them, but having a cause does. It’s time for older generations to capture the mood.
Early signs suggest Donald Trump is losing the game of brinkmanship to China, which Americans are realising. Either way there will be some big decisions for Australia after the election.
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