THE Rudd Government’s crackdown on family benefits will extend to people earning less than $150,000 a year who have used salary packaging to reduce their...
THE Rudd Government’s crackdown on family benefits will extend to people earning less than $150,000 a year who have used salary packaging to reduce their...
WAYNE Swan always intended to cut spending in his first budget, regardless of the economic cycle. Politics demanded it.
I MOVED onto Kevin time the moment my holidays began. After a short break of five days, I chained myself to the laptop to write...
WAYNE Swan has three perception problems with the budget.
ASK Wayne Swan whether Australia needs tax reform, and he answers like a member of the Howard government. A tax cut is tax reform, he...
KEVIN Rudd routinely slips back into Opposition-speak when he talks about housing affordability. He reverted again last week when he described the problem as “the...
IT may already be too late to save the Nationals. The 87-year-old party is in long-term decline as two separate population shifts undermine its traditional...
GUESS who Kevin Rudd was unconsciously channelling this week with his economic mantras of fighting inflation first and wage freezes for politicians and business chiefs?...
THIS budget is meant to be read two ways, because it tries to have it both ways.
VICTORIA should rename itself the average state: in better shape than the dud duo of NSW and South Australia but not as hot as the...
IT is only the most recent interest rate rise that can be right or wrong. All those hikes that came before it are, by definition,...
I’ve jumped off the fence in this month’s Australian Literary Review to take issue with the culture warriors of Left and Right.
KEVIN Rudd seems to have fixated on the idea that cutting spending programs and trimming waste might just be enough to do the job of...
BURIED deep in Kevin Rudd’s glitzy website is a press release admitting that Labor intends to reduce the budget surplus by $5.5billion over its first...
NOTICE something familiar about the polling from the US this week? It has a Kevin07 quality to it. Barack Obama extended his lead over Hillary...
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