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Brisbane Times

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Albanese has spent his political capital on his tax reforms. Now comes the real test

Albanese has spent his political capital on his tax reforms. Now comes the real test

Last year’s election win was the largest Labor victory since 1943. It paved the way for Anthony Albanese’s tax package.

23.06.2026 20

WA Today

Shane Wright

Albanese has spent his political capital on his tax reforms. Now comes the real test

Albanese has spent his political capital on his tax reforms. Now comes the real test

Last year’s election win was the largest Labor victory since 1943. It paved the way for Anthony Albanese’s tax package.

23.06.2026 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shane Wright

Albanese has spent his political capital on his tax reforms. Now comes the real test

Albanese has spent his political capital on his tax reforms. Now comes the real test

Last year’s election win was the largest Labor victory since 1943. It paved the way for Anthony Albanese’s tax package.

23.06.2026 10

The Age

Shane Wright

Albanese has spent his political capital on his tax reforms. Now comes the real test

Albanese has spent his political capital on his tax reforms. Now comes the real test

Last year’s election win was the largest Labor victory since 1943. It paved the way for Anthony Albanese’s tax package.

23.06.2026 20

Brisbane Times

Shane Wright

Before we build a statue of Elon Musk, let’s consider what he’s done with his trillions of dollars

Elon Musk is the world’s first trillionaire. But 150 years ago, a man in Sydney showed what true wealth is about.

17.06.2026 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shane Wright

Before we build a statue of Elon Musk, let’s consider what he’s done with his trillions of dollars

Elon Musk is the world’s first trillionaire. But 150 years ago, a man in Sydney showed what true wealth is about.

17.06.2026 20

The Age

Shane Wright

Before we build a statue of Elon Musk, let’s consider what he’s done with his trillions of dollars

Elon Musk is the world’s first trillionaire. But 150 years ago, a man in Sydney showed what true wealth is about.

17.06.2026 20

Brisbane Times

Shane Wright

Before we build a statue of Elon Musk, let’s consider what he’s done with his trillions of dollars

Elon Musk is the world’s first trillionaire. But 150 years ago, a man in Sydney showed what true wealth is about.

17.06.2026 30

WA Today

Shane Wright

AI could save us or destroy us. Too late now. We’re up to our eyeballs in it

AI is promising an economic and medical nirvana. But from Gandalf to people watching new data centres in their communities, fear of AI is growing.

03.06.2026 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shane Wright

AI could save us or destroy us. Too late now. We’re up to our eyeballs in it

AI is promising an economic and medical nirvana. But from Gandalf to people watching new data centres in their communities, fear of AI is growing.

03.06.2026 20

Brisbane Times

Shane Wright

AI could save us or destroy us. Too late now. We’re up to our eyeballs in it

AI is promising an economic and medical nirvana. But from Gandalf to people watching new data centres in their communities, fear of AI is growing.

03.06.2026 20

WA Today

Shane Wright

AI could save us or destroy us. Too late now. We’re up to our eyeballs in it

AI is promising an economic and medical nirvana. But from Gandalf to people watching new data centres in their communities, fear of AI is growing.

03.06.2026 20

The Age

Shane Wright

A minimum wage increase delivers a maximum inflation risk

The Fair Work Commission has just added to the Reserve Bank’s inflation troubles with a large increase in the minimum wage.

02.06.2026 20

WA Today

Shane Wright

A minimum wage increase delivers a maximum inflation risk

The Fair Work Commission has just added to the Reserve Bank’s inflation troubles with a large increase in the minimum wage.

02.06.2026 30

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shane Wright

A minimum wage increase delivers a maximum inflation risk

The Fair Work Commission has just added to the Reserve Bank’s inflation troubles with a large increase in the minimum wage.

02.06.2026 20

The Age

Shane Wright

A minimum wage increase delivers a maximum inflation risk

The Fair Work Commission has just added to the Reserve Bank’s inflation troubles with a large increase in the minimum wage.

02.06.2026 20

Brisbane Times

Shane Wright

Is this the budget we need? Our experts deliver their verdicts

Jim Chalmers’ fifth budget broke election promises, but the government says it simply had to rebalance Australia’s wealth. Here’s what our...

13.05.2026 20

WA Today

Shane Wright

Is this the budget we need? Our experts deliver their verdicts

Jim Chalmers’ fifth budget broke election promises, but the government says it simply had to rebalance Australia’s wealth. Here’s what our...

13.05.2026 30

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shane Wright

Is this the budget we need? Our experts deliver their verdicts

Jim Chalmers’ fifth budget broke election promises, but the government says it simply had to rebalance Australia’s wealth. Here’s what our...

13.05.2026 40

The Age

Shane Wright

Is this the budget we need? Our experts deliver their verdicts

Jim Chalmers’ fifth budget broke election promises, but the government says it simply had to rebalance Australia’s wealth. Here’s what our...

13.05.2026 20

Brisbane Times

Shane Wright

The war against Iran is the dark cloud hanging over this entire budget

The war, the response of older investors and the actions of the Reserve Bank are the biggest risks to Chalmers’ outlook, which anticipates a quick...

12.05.2026 30

WA Today

Shane Wright

The war against Iran is the dark cloud hanging over this entire budget

The war, the response of older investors and the actions of the Reserve Bank are the biggest risks to Chalmers’ outlook, which anticipates a quick...

12.05.2026 30

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shane Wright

The war against Iran is the dark cloud hanging over this entire budget

The war, the response of older investors and the actions of the Reserve Bank are the biggest risks to Chalmers’ outlook, which anticipates a quick...

12.05.2026 40

The Age

Shane Wright

The war against Iran is the dark cloud hanging over this entire budget

The war, the response of older investors and the actions of the Reserve Bank are the biggest risks to Chalmers’ outlook, which anticipates a quick...

12.05.2026 30

Brisbane Times

Shane Wright

How Australians are eating our future, one home auction at a time

All of us have added to the disaster that is the Australian property market. We all have to feel some pain to correct it.

06.05.2026 20

WA Today

Shane Wright

How Australians are eating our future, one home auction at a time

All of us have added to the disaster that is the Australian property market. We all have to feel some pain to correct it.

06.05.2026 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shane Wright

How Australians are eating our future, one home auction at a time

All of us have added to the disaster that is the Australian property market. We all have to feel some pain to correct it.

06.05.2026 30

The Age

Shane Wright

How Australians are eating our future, one home auction at a time

All of us have added to the disaster that is the Australian property market. We all have to feel some pain to correct it.

06.05.2026 20

Brisbane Times

Shane Wright

Grim, worse and dire: the three ways Donald Trump is playing havoc with Reserve Bank forecasts

Donald Trump is not living rent-free in the heads of central bankers. He’s ratching up rents like the New York property tycoon he was, creating...

05.05.2026 30

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shane Wright

Grim, worse and dire: the three ways Donald Trump is playing havoc with Reserve Bank forecasts

Donald Trump is not living rent-free in the heads of central bankers. He’s ratching up rents like the New York property tycoon he was, creating...

05.05.2026 30

WA Today

Shane Wright

Grim, worse and dire: the three ways Donald Trump is playing havoc with Reserve Bank forecasts

Donald Trump is not living rent-free in the heads of central bankers. He’s ratching up rents like the New York property tycoon he was, creating...

05.05.2026 40

The Age

Shane Wright

Grim, worse and dire: the three ways Donald Trump is playing havoc with Reserve Bank forecasts

Donald Trump is not living rent-free in the heads of central bankers. He’s ratching up rents like the New York property tycoon he was, creating...

05.05.2026 30

Brisbane Times

Shane Wright

Everyone’s getting mugged by inflation – and you’ve got one man to blame

If Donald Trump’s war against Iran had not started, inflation would be falling – not increasing. That’s the problem facing the Reserve Bank.

29.04.2026 30

WA Today

Shane Wright

Everyone’s getting mugged by inflation – and you’ve got one man to blame

If Donald Trump’s war against Iran had not started, inflation would be falling – not increasing. That’s the problem facing the Reserve Bank.

29.04.2026 30

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shane Wright

Everyone’s getting mugged by inflation – and you’ve got one man to blame

If Donald Trump’s war against Iran had not started, inflation would be falling – not increasing. That’s the problem facing the Reserve Bank.

29.04.2026 30

Brisbane Times

Shane Wright

Everyone’s getting mugged by inflation – and you’ve got one man to blame

If Donald Trump’s war against Iran had not started, inflation would be falling – not increasing. That’s the problem facing the Reserve Bank.

29.04.2026 30

The Age

Shane Wright

A Liberal change transformed landlord behaviour. Switching it back won’t fix the housing crisis

Life would be easy if a simple tax tweak could solve our decades’ long housing crisis. CGT reform may help, but it’s not the silver bullet.

22.04.2026 40

WA Today

Shane Wright

A Liberal change transformed landlord behaviour. Switching it back won’t fix the housing crisis

Life would be easy if a simple tax tweak could solve our decades’ long housing crisis. CGT reform may help, but it’s not the silver bullet.

22.04.2026 30

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shane Wright

A Liberal change transformed landlord behaviour. Switching it back won’t fix the housing crisis

Life would be easy if a simple tax tweak could solve our decades’ long housing crisis. CGT reform may help, but it’s not the silver bullet.

22.04.2026 30

The Age

Shane Wright

A Liberal change transformed landlord behaviour. Switching it back won’t fix the housing crisis

Life would be easy if a simple tax tweak could solve our decades’ long housing crisis. CGT reform may help, but it’s not the silver bullet.

22.04.2026 30

Brisbane Times

Shane Wright

Budgets are built on forecasts. But whatever Chalmers predicts, it keeps getting worse

Jim Chalmers’ fifth budget was always going to be one of the most important this century. The war in Iran has taken the May 12 budget to the highest...

20.04.2026 40

The Age

Shane Wright

Budgets are built on forecasts. But whatever Chalmers predicts, it keeps getting worse

Jim Chalmers’ fifth budget was always going to be one of the most important this century. The war in Iran has taken the May 12 budget to the highest...

20.04.2026 20

Brisbane Times

Shane Wright

Budgets are built on forecasts. But whatever Chalmers predicts, it keeps getting worse

Jim Chalmers’ fifth budget was always going to be one of the most important this century. The war in Iran has taken the May 12 budget to the highest...

20.04.2026 30

WA Today

Shane Wright

Budgets are built on forecasts. But whatever Chalmers predicts, it keeps getting worse

Jim Chalmers’ fifth budget was always going to be one of the most important this century. The war in Iran has taken the May 12 budget to the highest...

20.04.2026 40

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shane Wright

Chalmers heads to Washington as the world suffers a bad case of deja vu

Australia reshaped its budget after global leaders spoke at an IMF meeting almost 20 years ago. Jim Chalmers heads to the same meeting with similar...

15.04.2026 30

WA Today

Shane Wright

Chalmers heads to Washington as the world suffers a bad case of deja vu

Australia reshaped its budget after global leaders spoke at an IMF meeting almost 20 years ago. Jim Chalmers heads to the same meeting with similar...

15.04.2026 40

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shane Wright

Chalmers heads to Washington as the world suffers a bad case of deja vu

Australia reshaped its budget after global leaders spoke at an IMF meeting almost 20 years ago. Jim Chalmers heads to the same meeting with similar...

15.04.2026 30

The Age

Shane Wright

Chalmers heads to Washington as the world suffers a bad case of deja vu

Australia reshaped its budget after global leaders spoke at an IMF meeting almost 20 years ago. Jim Chalmers heads to the same meeting with similar...

15.04.2026 30

Brisbane Times

Shane Wright

The misguided slogan that led the government to spend $45 million on Tim Tams

Like cooks gone amok, politicians and interest groups are sprinkling the term “sovereign capability” over their pet projects in a bid to win...

13.04.2026 40

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shane Wright

The misguided slogan that led the government to spend $45 million on Tim Tams

Like cooks gone amok, politicians and interest groups are sprinkling the term “sovereign capability” over their pet projects in a bid to win...

13.04.2026 30

The Age

Shane Wright