Yesterday
- Opinion
- Leadership lessons
Albanese is running Australia like a low-energy state premier
Labor would be foolish to blame their poll slide solely on interest rates. Their problem is their model of governance belongs in the cheap-money era.
September
- Opinion
- Tax reform
Why politics is harder than it looks
Well-meaning reformers like the teals want to impose change over the heads of the people who will be affected by it the most.
July
- Opinion
- Big four accountants
Tryst between consultants, super funds and regulators must end
The Senate inquiry is skipping over real conflict of interest – corporatist collusion in dodgy unlisted asset valuations and lax regulatory oversight.
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Productivity is policy for the young
It is younger generations who suffer as complacent Baby Boomers refuse to see the point of growth-driving productivity reforms.
June
- Opinion
- Tax reform
Australia’s glorious history of policy failure
The Commonwealth was founded through a dodgy deal between colonial politicians, and went downhill from there.
- Opinion
- Property development
Blame Clover Moore, not negative gearing, for the housing crisis
The Greens are now manipulating American research to argue for rent controls.
May
- Opinion
- Property market
Chalmers’ plan to corporatise the Australian dream of homeownership
The Coalition wants to democratise housing. Labor wants to concentrate it, with build-to-rent alternatives.
April
- Opinion
- Byelection
Why Aston lances Liberals’ delusions
Liberals are still approaching politics like it is the early 2000s, when voters got their news from nightly TV broadcasts, and demography was their friend with dominant anglo Boomers whose worlds were relatively small.
February
- Opinion
- Superannuation
Whose super funds are they anyway?
This is a debate about whom super money should empower: Australian savers, or the government’s economic ambitions?
January
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Reform is not just efficient, it’s the moral thing to do
Reform can only be sold to voters as the right and fair thing to do, not because it is coldly cost-effective.
December 2022
- Opinion
- Federal election
The mess we’re making of energy presages a national decline
State ownership and higher taxes would have been rejected a decade ago by anyone with a stake in national prosperity. Now they are back in vogue.
November 2022
- Opinion
- Inflation
As in the ’70s, inflation dragon can only be slayed on the supply side
Rather than taking on vested interests to advance the public good, Labor is proposing the opposite – starting with attempting to re-rig labour markets.
September 2022
- Opinion
- Property investment
Why Labor’s given up on the Australian dream
Giving tax concessions to super funds that build to rent isn’t about improving affordable housing. It’s about transferring power from the little platoons of families and creating fundie feudalism.
August 2022
- Opinion
- Super wars
Super wars are all about power – and far from over
The purpose of superannuation should be retirement savings. But in practice it’s about bringing Australians to heel as serfs to industry funds.
September 2021
- Opinion
- Property market
Is the great Australian housing dream finally dying?
We are in danger of losing a generation of homeowners. The political and economic consequences will be profound.
December 2020
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
Australia's housing insanity
As mandatory super contributions have risen, home ownership has fallen. But an affordable Australian dream also requires removing planning and approval restrictions that make our houses among the world's most expensive.
February 2020
- Opinion
- Regulation
Why not a local bond market to boost our economy?
A new inquiry will look at how tax and corporations laws prevent the rise of a local market for company debt at cost to Australia's economic development.
October 2019
- Opinion
- Liberal Party
Put people power over the bureaucrats
The Liberal Party's core belief is that individuals decide what they want. Others must not be allowed to do it for them.
