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Matt GrudnoffThe Guardian |
Just as the housing market calms down just a little bit, watch some politicians issue a spate of crazy policies to juice the market and push up prices...
Last week, during Question Time, Nationals MP Alison Penfold asked Prime Minister Anthony Albanese: “By bringing 1.5 million migrants into Australia...
The Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Board is meeting this week to decide if it is going to change interest rates, but a survey that it released last...
For the past six Monday mornings since the federal budget, there has been breathless reporting on how auction clearance rates have fallen over the...
Since the federal budget, auction clearance rates have fallen and house prices have gone sideways. The slow-down in the housing market is being blamed...
Want some good news? The next interest rate change will probably be a cut. Almost everything else I have to say is bad news. Interest rates have gone...
Increasingly Australians feel that they cannot get ahead. That the economy is failing to work for them. If people don’t have a stake in our society,...
I have been writing about budgets for 12 years and for almost all that time the government has been claiming that it wants to do something about...
The inflation figures released last week confirm what we already know: Inflation is up, and it’s all because of higher fuel costs. The March figures...
There are persistent rumours the federal government will make changes to the capital gains tax discount and possibly negative gearing – perhaps as...
The Reserve Bank meets this week to decide if it will lift, cut or hold interest rates. The markets are predicting a rise. Given the surging price of...
It is odd that many who talk about wanting more tax revenue to come from the GST would balk at the easiest services to broaden it to, like private...