As in previous budgets, a huge chunk of Wayne Swan’s savings are actually tax rises or the closure of tax loopholes. He’s also targeted some…
Bernard Keane is Crikey’s political editor. Before that he was Crikey’s Canberra press gallery correspondent, covering politics, national security and economics.
As in previous budgets, a huge chunk of Wayne Swan’s savings are actually tax rises or the closure of tax loopholes. He’s also targeted some…
As in previous budgets, a huge chunk of Wayne Swan’s savings are actually tax rises or the closure of tax loopholes. He’s also targeted…
Either this morning’s Australian Bureau of Statistics jobs data for April has some statistical bugs; or the Australian labour market ha…
A concerted effort will be required to address structural flaws in the budget. But a series of savings measures intended to deliver big sa…
Tax purists hate levies, but the public is likely to support an increase to the Medicare levy to help fund the national disability insuran…
While the controversial ubiquity of online bookmaker Tom Waterhouse has received a great deal of media coverage, far less attention has been…
After all the angst over superannuation, Labor has produced some minor changes targeted at the very wealthy that will marginally address the…
Yes, a “rate rise looms”. Watch the commentariat stop all that rate cut talk and start to talk confidently about the coming rate rise after…
The opposition has said it will bring on a motion of no-confidence in the budget sitting week, beginning May 14. And it tried to bring on a…
Labor is in turmoil today after senior frontbencher Simon Crean called for a leadership spill, and announced he’d run for deputy. Refres…
What a difference hindsight can make in what passes for economic debate in Australia, especially among the commentariat in the national pa…
The government has made a significant shift on its Future Of Financial Advice reforms steered through Parliament last year by Bill Shorten…
