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Dan Andrews and Chris Minns fiddle while housing burns
David Llewellyn-Smith
7 months ago
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Why is Australia so bad at building infrastructure?
Why is Australia so bad at building infrastructure?
Leith van Onselen
7 months ago
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Black market booms off punitive tobacco taxes
The thought of lighting up a dart gives me the willies.
Leith van Onselen
7 months ago
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Tobacco taxes birth organised crime wave
The Australian Association of Convenience Stores has reported that tobacco sales were down 19.8% in the June quarter, following a 13.7% decline in the March quarter.
Leith van Onselen
7 months ago
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State governments love the property rebound
Leith van Onselen
8 months ago
Housing crisis blows up retirement system
The retirement system in Australia is built on the assumption that the majority of people will own their homes.
Leith van Onselen
8 months ago
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Posh Teals outflank Chicken Chalmers on GST hike
David Llewellyn-Smith
8 months ago
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How to fix the federal budget
The mainstream media is awash with articles scaremongering over Australia’s ageing population. They have received advanced copies of the 2023 Intergenerational Report (IGR), which will be released publicly on Thursday by Treasurer Jim Chalmers.
Leith van Onselen
8 months ago
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Broke Dan Andrews leaves Victorian roads in disrepair
Leith van Onselen
8 months ago
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It’s unfair to tax young Australians to pay for aged care
Health Services Union executive Gerard Hayes recently pushed for the introduction of a Medicare-style aged-care levy.
Leith van Onselen
8 months ago
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Coalition, One Nation unite against sensible pharmacy reforms
It would be difficult to find a larger swindle than Australian pharmacies.
Leith van Onselen
8 months ago
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Should we liquidate the $250b Future Fund?
Dimitri Burshstein from the Centre for Independent Studies estimates that the ‘opportunity cost’ of maintaining the Future Fund and its subsidiaries is about $10 billion a year.
Leith van Onselen
8 months ago
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Cruel Coalition targets unemployed for budget cuts
The Albanese Government announced in the May Federal Budget that the base rate for working-age and student payments would be raised by $40 per fortnight beginning in September 2023.
Leith van Onselen
9 months ago
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NSW Premier demands GST cash from Albo
Leith van Onselen
9 months ago
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Forget Commonwealth Games, kill the $200b suburban rail loop
Premier Daniel Andrews’ decision to cancel the 2026 Commonwealth Games was the right decision, even though he should never have agreed to host it in the first place and will leave Victorians paying a hefty break fee (similar to when Andrews cancelled the East-West Link road project).
Leith van Onselen
9 months ago
7
So much for needs-based school funding
Leith van Onselen
9 months ago
7
Dan Andrews told to scrap $200b rail loop to nowhere
The Grattan Institute has joined the Victorian Liberal Party in calling on the Victorian government to pause the $200 billion Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) project, amid a review of federal projects.
Leith van Onselen
9 months ago
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Labor’s community battery grants more pork-barrelling
Independent federal MP Rebekha Sharkie has asked the Auditor-General to investigate the first two round of funding under the federal government’s $200 million Community Batteries for Household Solar program, with Sharkie likening the scheme to the sports rorts saga under the former Morrison government.
Leith van Onselen
9 months ago
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If only Australia had a mining super profits tax
Leith van Onselen
10 months ago
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It’s time to end the ‘cult of consultants’
For years, MB decried how decades of government outsourcing, waves of senior redundancies, and a penchant for governments to seek advice from hired consultants had stripped Australia’s public service bare.
Leith van Onselen
10 months ago
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Australia’s $1.5m Vice-Chancellor wants free university
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, Duncan Maskell, is the nation’s highest paid university vice-chancellor with an eye-watering salary of $1.5 million.
Leith van Onselen
10 months ago
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“Unthinkable” aged care levy must be scrapped
Health Services Union executive Gerard Hayes says the union will use Labor’s 2023 national conference to push for a royal commission into health funding and the introduction of a Medicare-style aged-care levy.
Leith van Onselen
10 months ago
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High Speed Pork: the boondoggle that won’t die
Philip Laird, Honorary Principal Fellow at the University of Wollongong, has urged the Albanese Government’s new High Speed Rail Authority to begin construction on an east coast high speed rail (HSR) line as soon as possible.
Leith van Onselen
10 months ago
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Auditor general: Black economy leeching billions from budget
The former Coalition government agreed to implement 27 of the 80 recommendations that were made by its black economy taskforce.
Leith van Onselen
10 months ago
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QLD coal royalty hike an $8b budget bonanza
Leith van Onselen
10 months ago
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