Today in The Australian
Like Portnoy, Tanya Plibersek has a complaint. And with all of Labor piling on to the psychiatrist’s couch, she isn’t alone. But there’s no need to call Dr Freud. The problem is simple enough: Malcolm envy.
12 Oct2015
Plain truth: Farhad Jabar was a murderer, not a victim
Today in The Australian
On this, let us be absolutely clear: Farhad Jabar, who shot police accountant Curtis Cheng, was not a victim but a murderer.
On this, let us be absolutely clear: Farhad Jabar, who shot police accountant Curtis Cheng, was not a victim but a murderer.
05 Oct2015
Echo chamber magnifies sense of Muslim grievance
In The Australian today
According to senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, Assistant Minister for Multicultural Affairs in the Turnbull government, the young Muslims who are being drawn into the extremism that led Farhad Jabar Khalil Mohammad to murder a NSW Police Force employee last Friday feel “disengaged” and “disenfranchised”.
According to senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, Assistant Minister for Multicultural Affairs in the Turnbull government, the young Muslims who are being drawn into the extremism that led Farhad Jabar Khalil Mohammad to murder a NSW Police Force employee last Friday feel “disengaged” and “disenfranchised”.
03 Oct2015
Economic reality bites Malcolm Turnbull’s honeymoon
In The Australian today:
In an update on Thursday, the Canberra-based economic modelling firm Cadence Economics estimated that each one percentage point fall in China’s long-term growth rate knocks $46.5 billion off the present value of Australia’s national income, making every Australian about $500 worse off in 2035 than they would otherwise have been.
In an update on Thursday, the Canberra-based economic modelling firm Cadence Economics estimated that each one percentage point fall in China’s long-term growth rate knocks $46.5 billion off the present value of Australia’s national income, making every Australian about $500 worse off in 2035 than they would otherwise have been.
28 Sep2015
How should the country adjust to being poorer?
In The Australian today:
Appearing last week on the ABC’s 7.30, former treasury secretary Ken Henry claimed Australia has a revenue problem, because the ratio of tax revenues to GDP is lower than in 2002, the implication being tax rates should rise. And that was only the highlight of a week-long “taxfest”, in which the media was crowded with like-minded pundits proposing ways of lightening taxpayers’ wallets.
Appearing last week on the ABC’s 7.30, former treasury secretary Ken Henry claimed Australia has a revenue problem, because the ratio of tax revenues to GDP is lower than in 2002, the implication being tax rates should rise. And that was only the highlight of a week-long “taxfest”, in which the media was crowded with like-minded pundits proposing ways of lightening taxpayers’ wallets.
21 Sep2015
Malcolm Turnbull’s economic choices will make him or break him
In The Australian today
According to the Australian Election Study, which surveys voters at each federal
election, Tony Abbott won the 2013 election with the lowest approval rating ever for an
incoming prime minister. So despite gaining 53.5 per cent of the vote and delivering on a
broad range of commitments, he had little political capital on which to draw and never
found a way to secure the electorate’s goodwill.
According to the Australian Election Study, which surveys voters at each federal
election, Tony Abbott won the 2013 election with the lowest approval rating ever for an
incoming prime minister. So despite gaining 53.5 per cent of the vote and delivering on a
broad range of commitments, he had little political capital on which to draw and never
found a way to secure the electorate’s goodwill.