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Are taxed to the hilt?
With the Budget weeks away, fresh data shows Australians handed over $839 billion in tax in the latest financial year. Are we over-taxed compared to the rest of the world?
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Has One Nation peaked? Polls fall as Labor surges back
Has One Nation reached its polling peak? That’s the intriguing question from the latest batch of polls.
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What Australia can do now to stop another local fuel crisis in the future
If policymakers conclude the answer to fuel shortages is to simply build much larger liquid fuel reserves, they will lock Australia into a worse dependence…
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Albo lands fertiliser deal to keep the nation’s farms flowing
The fuel crisis following the Iran conflict has dominated headlines, but supplies of fertiliser have also been devastated.
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Farrer by-election: One Nation to win
Nominations for the 9 May Farrer by-election are now confirmed, which means it’s time for my prediction. Twelve candidates are standing, four have a realistic…
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Is Chalmers playing Trump with foreign investors?
The Treasurer is floating a tax proposal that could shake the confidence of foreign investors who collectively hold close to US$5 trillion in our economy.…
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Coalition pledges to assess migrants for ‘Australian values’ and make them wait longer for benefits
A Taylor government would make conformity with Australian values legally binding for immigrants, and make non-citizens wait longer for access to the social security system.
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New Nats leader wants to go back to work-from-home during the fuel crisis to grow smaller towns
Nationals leader Matt Canavan has urged the embrace of work-from-home opportunities as a way to boost the growth of smaller towns and regions.
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Fuel insecurity: Tony Abbott on how to rescue Australia from the current crisis
Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott has been writing on a platform called Substack about a range of issues. In this guest post, also published on…
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How did One Nation fare in its first big election test?
Pollsters keep repeating the same thing: One Nation is now a force to be reckoned with. So how did it fare in its first big…