The Coalition money shuffle
One of Joe Hockey’s first acts as Treasurer in 2013 was to gift the RBA $8.8 billion. The main reason for this was to make […]
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The Strange Case Of The Liberal Party!
Perhaps my brain is wired differently, but I tend to notice contradictions in things. Of course it’s pretty easy to notice the contradiction in Peter […]
Morrison’s Approaching Waterloo
It may be early days but Joe Hockey’s second and final attempt to bring down a credible budget appears to be unravelling already. Even on […]
Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it, you die. What is it?
As the snake oil salesman and his happy clapper gear up to sell us on their compensation for a higher GST, it is worth remembering […]
Stop The Homeless … A Moderate Proposal
When it’s all boiled down, politicians aren’t actually there to run the country. That’s what we have the public service for. It’s not that politicians […]
Malcolm Fears neither Debt nor the Conservatives.
What a monumental turn around. In a newspaper interview this week, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has shrugged off the Abbott-Hockey debt and deficit rhetoric and […]
Morrison’s Dilemma
Within a comparatively short space of time, we are starting to see our new Treasurer’s ‘modus operandi’ toward economic reform. Scott Morrison’s recent claim that […]
Let’s We Forget! Turnbull, Turnbull, Turnull. Whoops, I Left out out a “B”…
It’s suddenly grown harder to write. Both satire AND intelligent articles. I mean, when Tony Abbott was PM, all you had to do was quote […]
Money makes the world go round … which is why we had a flat earth before it was invented!
OK, Dr. Joanne Howe’s report on the China Free Trade Agreement is brilliant and extremely accurate. No, I haven’t actually read it, but not reading […]
A Political Watcher’s Pig Heaven
Over the last two years a number of articles have been written here at the AIMN about tax expenditures and the need to rein them in if […]
Morrison heading down the wrong path
Watching Scott Morrison’s interview with Leigh Sales, on 7.30 Wednesday night I was hoping to hear something…anything that indicated that he possessed a better grasp of the economy […]
It’s Worth Remembering That We Started All As Communists!
“It is hard to overstate the importance of free trade in the economist’s mind. “In the beginning, there was just you, a pig, your family […]
Politicians want unions to be accountable?
Dyson Heydon and Tony Abbott want union officials to be held as accountable as company directors. Personally I would like company directors also held to […]
Transfield shares go up and so does the debt
LABOR CRASHES THROUGH PREVIOUS DEBT LIMIT TOPPING QUARTER OF A TRILLION DOLLARS October 12, 2012 Joint Media Statement: Andrew Robb and Joe Hockey The Gillard […]
Abbott’s Ever Diminishing Campaign Options
I read online Friday morning that Australian Border Force were planning to conduct visa checks across the Melbourne CBD starting the same day and continuing […]