The nation again pivots on Victoria
Whether they appreciate it or not, 19 million Australians are teetering on the edge, not just Victorians.
Terry McCrann
Only the election will open Aussie border
There will be no move to open Australia’s borders until at the very earliest, around 11pm, on the night of the next federal election.
Our shocking energy future leaves users off the grid
As generators exit, not only business is being hit but it’s likely to be the lights in your house or the heating being turned off.
Pallas’ all-red budget
I was prepared to give Tim Pallas the benefit of the doubt, but he’s given Victoria a two-speed recovery in which only the public servants win.
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It’s the reality, stupid
BHP Billiton CEO Andrew Mackenzie has been blubbering over the way the mine at Olympic Dam has been blacked out twice in as many months, writes Terry McCrann.
Market trumps alleged experts
THREE of the critical factors that will drive your investments in 2017 are now in place, writes Terry McCrann.
Looking ahead to volatile mix
THE investment environment and how your individual investment categories perform are going to be shaped by three separate but interlocking forces, writes Terry McCrann.
Citizen Kane’s $3bn Trump punt
BORAL has unveiled a very old-fashioned roll-up-your-sleeves move in the “real reality” space of building products and construction, writes Terry McCrann.
Super rules map a new path
THE government isn’t just changing the superannuation rules, it is completely up-ending the entire lifetime investment landscape for every Australian, writes 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.
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