Labor punches itself in the face, not RBA
Many households may still be living in the hope that their standard of living crash is temporary. Once they realise it’s not, their attitude will change and the government may cop it.
Many households may still be living in the hope that their standard of living crash is temporary. Once they realise it’s not, their attitude will change and the government may cop it.
We live in a democracy, where everyone gets to vote, although there are nine cautious people on the RBA board whose decisions and brain power carry more weight right now.
Bill Shorten’s departure is a win for his bitter factional rivals. But its timing, ahead of the next election, says everything about what he thinks of Labor’s prospects.
The loss of Bill Shorten from parliament will be felt keenly, both by the Labor Party and the nation as a whole.
Mark Speakman’s admission he was left in the dark with the immediacy of Tuesday’s federal takeover appears a failure of communication 101.
The cost of policy inaction from both sides of politics is now in plain view and we’re going to have to borrow more to simply stand still.
Premiers and lord mayors should not be charging the public to find out if people like them or not.
Instead of putting lipstick on the pig, Jim Chalmers would be advised to accept he has made some major mistakes.
The level of household grumpiness is only going to grow this side of Christmas and possibly beyond as Labor heads toward an election, if relief doesn’t start to arrive soon.
If the public flogging of Robert Newlinds leads other judges to shut up, we will be none the wiser about injustices happening under our noses.
Foreign students and spendthrift governments are keeping the economy afloat and the pressure on inflation.
The idea that even to question the basis of a specific visa policy is somehow or other divisive, or racist, or an attack on the integrity or competence of senior officials is nothing more than a low grade attempt to censor legitimate debate.
There was always a simpler and faster option that would have yielded information about the LGBQI+ community much more quickly and with a reasonable degree of accuracy.
Jim Chalmers will find himself short of economists who might be willing to support him. One economist went as far as to call it a direct threat to the RBA.
Only the Treasurer and his department had the economic knowledge to realise that the government’s policies and actions would boost the cost base of the nation, so maintaining high interest rates.
Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton are locked into a cycle of mutually assured destruction. Both leaders must now reflect on their collective and unenvious record of having identically low approval ratings.
Queensland ALP faces an expensive conundrum with the big chunk of CFMEU cash presenting a needed boost for Steven Miles’s election campaign.
Anything that paves the way for bigger and more frequent joint military exercises, and presents an opportunity for Australia to help build up Indonesia’s maritime domain awareness capacity, is unambiguously good news.
Australia has gone from being a pain in the neck for Pacific Island leaders to dishing out back rubs to the region’s heavy-hitters in the space of just a few short years.
Just as Anthony Albanese has been saying since the beginning of this year, it seems all the speculation about an election this year has come to naught.
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