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New Zealand has a new government – at last!
Now is a good time for me to analyse the NZ election.
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Treasurer Chalmers gives up his influence over the RBA and interest rates
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…
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States will be forced to pay Albo more for project funding
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…
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Nation-wide the Voice received fourth highest affirmative vote
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…
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Treasurer signs up for spending cuts to help RBA governor not raise rates
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.
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Come October 2024 Sir Keir Starmer will be the British Prime Minister
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…
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Will Albo’s next big idea be to tax the wealthy?
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…
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Hockey bags over-entitled politicians as a cancer
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…
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Big spending state governments keeping inflation high
State premiers are spending like drunken sailors, which isn’t helpful for the fight against inflation and the related rising interest rates.
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Has Voice referendum proved we’re more Anglo than the Poms?
Comparing the countries of the Anglosphere, the Voice referendum says something about our Anglophile ways and wokeness.