Marvel has Iron Man. DC has Wonder Woman. The real world has Donald “Tariff Man” Trump.
Shane Wright
The Americanisation of the Australian parliamentary system continues.
Shane Wright, Analysis
By showing voters he understands their anger about the leadership revolving door, Scott Morrison has sought to draw a line under the entire issue.
Only some people benefit from certain tax perks and it means the rest of us have to pay more
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is fighting a race against time to define himself to the voters of Australia.
The Victorian result, with the Liberal Party losing seats from its heartland, has given many Government MPs a portent of what awaits next year unless something changes.
Politicians love a piece of infrastructure. Build a bridge, pave a road, open a school or start an airport runway then you’d better make way for the rush of political types wanting to be in the photo.
Certain members of the Liberal Party have been trying to tell themselves that Prime Minister Scott Morrison was doing fine in Victoria.
The 2021 census is likely to contain some new questions, while others will disappear.
The Government claims that without negative gearing house prices will collapse, rents soar and the world come to an end. Complete and utter tosh.
It’s the elephant in the party room which contains ministers who, in Malcolm Turnbull’s view, have blood on their hands and are afraid to explain how it got there.
The live export trade and the nation’s banks — outwardly — don’t appear to have that much in kind.
Consumers, the people who make the Australian economy turn, are showing how peeved they are with events being played out in government and across all major parties.
All the excuses in the world can be made but ultimately Wentworth should never have been at risk.
You will soon see new $50 in your wallets — that is, if you’ve got anything to do with cash any more.
If the history of by-elections is anything to go by, a bad result in Wentworth will signal doom for Scott Morrison’s Government.
The Nationals have taken the saying imitation is the sincerest form of flattery too far.
To get decent reform in this country requires deep pockets. In this case, the long-needed overhaul of the GST system has required paying off every State and Territory.
Not just here in Australia but just about everywhere, one of the defining characteristics of the post-GFC world has been the sluggishness in wages.
Shane Wright, Economics Editor
Reckoning or correction. That’s what investors and policy makers have to decide after the sea of red ink that splashed itself across world equity markets.
Ninety-nine questions. That’s what Kenneth Hayne, the man heading the royal commission into the banking and financial sectors, has posed in his interim report.
The rest of the country is getting a big dose of GST karma.
A solution to the decade-long injustice of WA’s GST share is almost within reach. But politics, on both sides of the fence and across the country, is threatening to derail it.
Josh Frydenberg set a record of sorts when he revealed the final numbers for the 2017-18 Budget.
