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Western Australia is rolling in (even more) cash – thanks to nature, China and both sides of federal politics

No wonder the Western Australian state government left it until Christmas Eve to release its Mid-Year Budget Update (officially titled Mid-Year...

29.12.2024 4

Pearls and Irritations

Saul Eslake

Axing negative gearing won’t have any effect on rentals

Negative gearing costs Australian taxpayers billions each year. Its defenders say abolishing it will cause a rental crisis. That’s not true. One...

25.09.2024 1

Pearls and Irritations

Saul Eslake

Will Labor have the guts to propose changes to negative gearing?

Press reports this week suggest that the Albanese Government has sought advice from Treasury about possible changes to negative gearing and the...

25.09.2024 1

Pearls and Irritations

Saul Eslake

Which family drama has Rupert Murdoch in a leading role?

20.09.2024 3

The Guardian

Saul Eslake

Axing negative gearing won’t cause a rental crisis. Here’s the maths

One of the great urban myths of Australian political history is that “rents went through the roof” after then treasurer Paul Keating abolished...

20.09.2024 20

The Guardian

Saul Eslake

Why WA gets the share of GST that it wants

WA Treasurer Rita Saffioti MLA is almost certainly right when she says that there would be a “voter backlash” [in Western Australia] if “you...

06.09.2024 1

Pearls and Irritations

Saul Eslake