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
- 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
- Victorian election
Party of Menzies must aspire to home ownership
Victorian Liberals aren’t just losing the temporary politics of elections, they’re losing a structural constituency to vote for them.
- 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.
June 2022
- Opinion
- Federal election
Lessons from an election
For the Liberals to recover and win government they must take back the Teal seats.
February 2021
- Opinion
- Superannuation
On housing and super, Keating is a neo-feudalist hypocrite
The former PM opposes using super to buy a private home but supports funds using members’ money to build houses and rent them back to members.
January 2021
- Opinion
- Super wars
Superannuation reforms will shine sunlight on a murky system
Australia ranks at the bottom for disclosure practices by super funds. That's why the Your Future, Your Super package is about making sure the system works for members, not fund managers.
