‘Drover’s dog’ Dutton needs to bark up the right tree
The one number that may determine the outcome of the election is the one that defines whether voters believed the Albanese government deserves to be re-elected. That number is only 34 per cent.
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Treasury officials advised Jim Chalmers that its $10bn costings of the Coalition’s small business tax policy were highly unreliable, according to an internal email chain.
Pre-election spending is already reaching ‘disgusting’ levels
The battle over Medicare is a triumph of politics over policy, after the removal of the last remaining guardrail on election spending.
Sleepwalking towards minority government
Anthony Albanese may have not yet decided when formal hostilities are to begin, but expectations of an earlier than scheduled election remain high. Any plans to serve the full-term until May were dashed by the RBA’s Michele Bullock this week.
The trillion-dollar brake on rate cuts
The current level of federal spending is now running higher than the peak of the Covid pandemic which triggered record health spending and the introduction of JobKeeper.
Lights are flashing red across the board for Burgess
As if the world wasn’t bleak enough already. According to the nation’s intelligence chief, it is only going to get worse. There is no longer a single threat that stands out on the priority list.
‘Don’t use rates cut as cover to buy votes’
The Reserve Bank’s quarter-point interest rate cut must not be a green light for a pre-election cash splash, economists have warned.
Long wait for living standards to recover
Households should expect a slow grind before their disposable incomes return to levels reached in the aftermath of the pandemic, fresh Reserve Bank forecasts warn.
PM won’t get much credit for this
A single cut may remind borrowers how much they have lost.
Newspoll: Coalition fails to land inflation punch
Newspoll findings suggest Peter Dutton’s argument that he would have better managed the cost-of-living crisis is failing to resonate with voters.
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