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I don’t suffer from what some of President Donald Trump’s more fervent supporters – both in the US and in Australia – like to call “Trump...
State and federal oppositions will draw encouragement from the byelection result. But neither has shown voters a coherent and credible budget and...
No wonder the Western Australian state government left it until Christmas Eve to release its Mid-Year Budget Update (officially titled Mid-Year...
Negative gearing costs Australian taxpayers billions each year. Its defenders say abolishing it will cause a rental crisis. That’s not true. One of...
Press reports this week suggest that the Albanese Government has sought advice from Treasury about possible changes to negative gearing and the...
One of the great urban myths of Australian political history is that “rents went through the roof” after then treasurer Paul Keating abolished...
WA Treasurer Rita Saffioti MLA is almost certainly right when she says that there would be a “voter backlash” [in Western Australia] if “you...
Australia’s experience over the past three years of the highest inflation in 35 years is in large part — as it has been in other countries — the...
Consumer prices have been rising. But its costs not profits that have been doing the driving, writes Saul Eslake.