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Wednesday, June 12, 2024

The Coalition wants to dump our 2030 emissions target, yet somehow hit 2050’s. Behavioural economics has a name for that

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If you are anything like me, the nearer you get to a deadline, the more desperately you want to postpone it, no matter how much harder...
Wednesday, June 05, 2024

Spare us the talk about a wages explosion. There’s nothing wrong with lifting Australia’s lowest wages in line with inflation

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What is it with the Coalition and wages? When, in the final days of the 2022 election campaign, the then opposition leader Anthony A...
Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Stand by for a pay rise on top of a tax cut. Here’s why things will feel better from July

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At the moment, things look awful. The latest Bureau of Statistics count of retail spending (spending online and in shops) released ...
Sunday, May 26, 2024

Top economists give budget modest rating and doubt inflation will fall as planned

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Wes Mountain/The Conversation Asked to grade Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ third budget on his own criteria of deliverin...
Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Peter Dutton makes Labor’s case. Tax breaks for landlords should be restricted to those who build homes

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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton might have done us a favour. As part of his budget reply speech on Thursday night he promised to st...
Tuesday, May 07, 2024

If the RBA’s right, interest rates may not fall for another year. Here’s why – and what it means for next week’s budget

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The Reserve Bank is now assuming Australians will see no interest rate cuts this year – and quite possibly none before the next feder...
Wednesday, May 01, 2024

Australians lose $5,200 a minute to scammers. There’s a simple thing the government could do to reduce this. Why won’t they?

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What if the government was doing everything it could to stop thieves making off with our money, except the one thing that could really ...
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Beyond the spin, beyond the handouts, here’s how to get a handle on what’s really happening on budget night

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Three weeks from now, some of us will be presented with a mountain of budget papers, and just about all of us will get to hear abou...
Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Biden is cancelling millions of student debts – here’s what to expect from Albanese

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So weighed down have Americans become by student debt, and so potent a political issue has it become in the US, that President Biden pl...
Sunday, April 14, 2024

Scrap the West Australian GST deal set to cost $40 billion – leading economists

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Australia’s top economists overwhelmingly want Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to scrap a special deal with Western Australia that’s...