WEALTH AND POWER KEEP ON WINNING
As a committed advocate of Modern Monetary Theory and one who thinks it should be renamed, Modern Monetary System, for reasons I will explain, there […]
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Are You Feeling Lucky, Malcolm?
My question is directed to the Prime Minister. Your treasurer has just brought down your 2018/19 budget laced with tax cuts to woo the low […]
Expect some Rubbery Figures in the Budget
It is perhaps a tad unwise to try and second guess the budget to be handed down next Tuesday, but some things need to be […]
Get ready! An early election is coming
Get ready! We are 4 months out from a federal election. It’s not the polling that has determined this will happen, it’s the roadblock ahead. […]
The Hypocrisy is Mind-Blowing
It’s hard to recall the last time we saw Barrie Cassidy take a blowtorch to a government minister on Insiders, but that’s what happened this […]
Why a Universal Basic Income is a very bad idea
It is difficult to understand how an intelligent, highly trained man like Richard Di Natale could seriously suggest that Australia should introduce a Universal Basic […]
Shorten smells blood
Bill Shorten can smell blood and is becoming bolder by the week. His announcement last week that the cash payments tied to the dividend imputation […]
CLIVE HAMILTON’S Book “SILENT INVASION” Is “Yellow Peril” And Sinophobia To The Extreme
I must admit, Australia is entering a very volatile time in terms of how it perceives Mainland China and subsequently how they treat Chinese Australians […]
Shorten draws a line in the sand
Bill Shorten and the Labor party are beginning to demonstrate true grit. The latest policy announcement that will see an end to a welfare handout […]
The Myth of the 2020/21 Surplus
Scott Morrison’s belief that he will be able to produce a surplus budget by 2020/21 is either a pipe dream or a con-trick. It is […]
Is Barnaby’s career done and dusted?
As we all know, Federal politicians spend nearly half their lives away from home. It can be a lonely life, we know that too. But […]
The Stock Market … better it never existed
Are we witnessing the end of the surge on Wall St? Or is, what we witnessed this week, no more than a minor correction? The […]
Time is running out, Malcolm
Malcolm Turnbull just doesn’t get it. Or, perhaps he does, and he is hoping against the odds that the situation will improve by the time […]
A Politician’s Guide to telling the truth about taxation
Following an interview with an unusually frank and forthright politician, a journalist was struggling to absorb the reality that taxes don’t fund government spending. He […]
A Politician’s guide to the question, “How are you going to pay for it?”
If there’s one question a politician fears being asked, it is this one. After announcing a decision to undertake a bold new and expensive development […]