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Michael PascoeWA Today |
Try not to get too excited, but there is finally something positive to report on the housing front. Alas, there’s not a government committing to...
You know the Coalition’s “Labor will kill the weekend” scare campaign about utes and electric vehicles? Donald Trump is up to something similar...
It is frankly hilarious to witness the Prime Minister, lesser ministers and media titans howling over the miserly $70 million Mark Zuckerberg is...
Same old same old from the Reserve Bank – a captive of the expectations it creates, locked in the narrow vision of its brutally blunt and...
“Good policy makes good politics” was a Paul Keating maxim. The corollary is that politics without principle makes bad policy. Since the...
It is frankly hilarious to witness the Prime Minister, lesser ministers and media titans howling over the miserly $70 million Mark Zuckerberg is...
Another day (or week or month or whatever), another series of disheartening and depressing housing stories and statistics, all pointing to there being...
While chief spy Mike Burgess’ speech about spooks spooking last week was somewhat (unintentionally) amusing, the ASIO Media Unit – alias Nine...
The Greens, Peter Costello, Paul Keating, Bernie Fraser and Ian Macfarlane make for an unlikely alliance, but the second-rate RBA review has made them...
It was a remarkable Reserve Bank board meeting this month, but not because of anything to do with monetary policy – that remained the inequitable,...
Remember the Reserve Bank’s $356 billion bond purchase program? Probably not, but it’s costing us $40 billion or so and achieved bugger-all. As...
The National Party going the full Don Quixote tilting at windmills this week has been billed in some quarters as a problem for the Liberal Party. Not...
While all the headlines say the Reserve Bank decided to keep rates steady, the ugly truth was tucked away in the fine print of the bank’s Statement...
If you were running the state suffering the very worst of Australia’s housing disaster, a state where the number of public and community housing...
Spare me anyone again asking the Prime Minister or the Treasurer if the stage-three tax cuts will go ahead. They’ve told us and told us and told us...
Overshadowed by the politics surrounding the stage-three tax cut changes is the sad matter of Treasury proving incompetent, or so degraded by...
The Productivity Commission has released a damning report on Australia’s worsening public and community housing disaster. Needs have increased,...
While the culture warriors subject our flag to sartorial abuse and swear our very existence depends on a merely 30-year-old public holiday, it turns...
To be clear, the proposed adjustment to the stage-three tax cuts is a big improvement on the ideological trap set by Scott Morrison (who?) in 2019....
The Productivity Commission has released a damning report on Australia’s worsening public and community housing disaster. Needs have increased,...
OPINION It shouldn’t be too surprising that the US and its loyal allies Australia and the UK have been somewhat muted in their protests over...
OPINION It’s always wise to be careful what you wish for. If Donald Trump is kicked off so many state primary tickets that he can’t run for...
And so we begin 2024 with a reading from the Gospel of St Luke. (Hang in here – it’s as scary as all hell, so scary the vast majority of...
It looks like Gina Rinehart is getting very poor value for the millions of dollars she has paid the Institute of Public Affairs. Or maybe not. It...
Andrew Barr has boasted that he is Australia’s most experienced government leader, having held his job as ACT Chief Minister since 2014. Nine years...
Via various Freedom of Information requests, it looked like the Reserve Bank of Australia has never studied, reported, briefed, spreadsheeted or...
Watching market reaction over the past two days, you could be forgiven for thinking interest rates are being cut, the rare “soft landing” bird is...
The federal government is developing a National Housing and Homelessness Plan. All indications are that a “National Hopeless Housing Plan” will be...
Last month’s Reserve Bank interest rate rise is looking increasingly lonely, leaving the board with a tough decision this Tuesday: do nothing, which...
So Jim Chalmers has appointed a fourth-tier executive from a second-rate foreign central bank to be 2IC of the Reserve Bank of Australia, perhaps a...
A picture may be worth 1000 words, but a Reserve Bank graph in this month’s Statement on Monetary Policy is worth more than the 4000 words in the...
On Tuesday, in a rather dull and tone-deaf speech, new Reserve Bank Governor Michele Bullock observed that the sun rises in the east. Keyboards...
Former Australian ambassador to China, Geoff Raby, last week wrote a piece praising the rise of diplomacy in our dealings with Beijing, claiming that...
Former Australian ambassador to China, Geoff Raby, last week wrote a piece praising the rise of diplomacy in our dealings with Beijing, claiming that...
The latest polling on the Voice referendum confirms what was already apparent: Those who don’t know – those with less education and those who were...
So we now know Mike Pezzullo played the last couple of Coalition governments like a fiddle, and a small part about how he played them. The obvious...
There’s often a precarious relationship between a chairman and CEO – or Wallabies coach. Appointing the CEO (or coach) is about the most important...
While there’s life, there’s hope – and the Wallabies are still alive in the Rugby World Cup. Alive, but not at all healthy. Avoiding the...