This model tipped the last 2 elections. It’s pointing to a Coalition win
This election will be won by the Coalition and Prime Minister Scott Morrison if the economic models perform as expected – and they usually do.
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One issue matters more to top economists than any other this election: climate change
Offered a menu of issues to choose from as the most important in the May 21 election, Australia’s top economists have overwhelmingly zeroed in on one.
The super giveaway that gives more to the already-wealthy, tax-free
One of the strangest, certainly one of the hardest to justify, measures in last week’s budget was called “supporting retirees”.
A better title would have been “supercharging the wealth of those retirees who already have more than enough to live on”.
Budget 2022: Frydenberg spent big, but (on the whole) responsibly
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Why Australia’s Reserve Bank won’t hike interest rates just yet
The biggest question relating to the management of the economy right now has nothing to do with next week’s budget. It has everything to do with the Reserve Bank and the board meetings that will follow it.
It’s hard to find a case for a cut in petrol tax – there are other things the budget can do
Cutting petrol tax to bring down the cost of living used to be the political version of a joke. Failed US presidential candidates John McCain and Hillary Clinton both tried it in 2008.
Putin’s biggest mistake? Trusting the Western financial system
The West is arraying financial weapons never deployed before against a country of Russia’s size, forsaking some of the principles that have defined it.
This pointless $1,080 tax break should have ended years ago – but has become hard to stop
We are about to find out whether we’ll lose a tax break worth up to $1,080 a year.