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Dr Jim has to be hoping that RBA Governor Michele Bullock gets her interest rate calls right. If she doesn’t, the voters of Australia won’t care who raised rates, they’ll…
The PM is telling big borrowing state governments to stump up more money to get infrastructure funding from taxpayers. Is this too little too late…
What lessons should we take from past referendums? Should the current PM make this vow to himself: “There will never be another referendum while Anthony…
Dr Jim Chalmers should call his state treasurers and tell them to control their spending to take the heat off families facing another rate hike.
I’ve decided to make my British predictions first and leave those for Australia and the USA to the end of the year because all the…
The Paris-based think tank thinks older Aussies are living the life of Reilly and proposes many things to the PM, including increasing taxes on super…
Former Coalition Treasurer Joe Hockey told a London audience that modern day politicians were entitled populists and a cancer in the community. Is Hockey on…
State premiers are spending like drunken sailors, which isn’t helpful for the fight against inflation and the related rising interest rates.
Comparing the countries of the Anglosphere, the Voice referendum says something about our Anglophile ways and wokeness.
With the PM on the outer with his backbench and his constituency after his failed referendum, Beijing may be the political ally he has to…