In the early years of Anthony Albanese’s prime ministership, he was labelled by some as ‘Airbus Albo’. This was a tag used to criticise his frequent travel overseas, sometimes to events of seemingly marginal relevance, at a time when many Australians felt their PM’s attention might be better directed to
When a defence industry minister falls back on pop culture memes to spell out at least $7 billion of funding for emerging technologies, well, you know something has shifted. So it was on Tuesday, when Minister for Defence Industry Pat Conroy did an obligatory pre-budget tour of local counter-drone and
The new accounting and audit rule-making body should conduct cost-benefit analyses of accounting standards to monitor the regulatory burden on entities, according to a submission from the Australian Institute of Company Directors. The Senate economics committee is finalising a report on the bill that creates External Reporting Australia, a body
Former Treasury secretary Ken Henry has told politicians to ‘stop the crap’ and raise a tax on the gas industry. The Senate created the select committee on the taxation of gas resources last month. The Greens-led committee is calling for tax reform ideas to raise more revenue from the sector.
Everything Australians need to know about plovers: why they swoop, when swooping season peaks, what the law says and how to handle nesting birds safely. read now...
Next month’s federal budget is an even tighter balancing act than usual, with Treasurer Jim Chalmers facing global economic uncertainty, a fuel crisis and the need to juggle cost-of-living relief with combating inflation. The government has been weighing up changes to negative gearing, capital gains tax, a gas export
Since the South Australian state election last month, myself and the other six new One Nation Parliamentarians have been busy organising ourselves for our first few weeks in Parliament.
We have a big responsibility to hold the failing Labor government to account and we will not shirk from our responsibilities, for if the last four years have taught us ...
Sir Olly Robbins has only been giving evidence to the foreign affairs committee for 20 minutes, and already he has made clear that he is not going to allow Keir Starmer to shape the narrative around Peter Mandelson’s vetting. The former permanent under-secretary at the Foreign Office told MPs within minutes of starting his session that when he started ...
Liz Truss’s greatest fiscal sin was her Energy Price Guarantee. True, markets didn’t like her tax cuts unmatched by spending cuts, and a Budget which froze out the Office for Budget Responsibility. But they hated an open-ended commitment to subsidise energy prices, which the government estimated would cost £25 billion in the first six months ...
I’ll say this for the RMT: they are, at least, a trade union that has long since given up the pretense of caring about the wider public good. While the insufferable junior doctors pretend their money-grabbing militancy is somehow an act of great benevolence towards patients, the rail workers’ union is so transparently a glorified protection racket that ...
Mind your language! There has recently been another smattering of incidents featuring accusations of inappropriate choice of words, or even just the wrong tone. I think it’s worth taking a closer look at some of these for what they reveal about our hang-ups, the tender areas of our discourse. What makes us wince? What is considered appropriate, and ...
On the face of it, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have just released great news on unemployment. The rate – against all expectations – has fallen from 5.2 per cent to 4.9 per cent. Radio 4’s Today programme welcomed the ‘surprising’ news. But this is no good news story.
To be classed by statisticians as unemployed you have to be actively ...
In the early years of Anthony Albanese’s prime ministership, he was labelled by some as ‘Airbus Albo’. This was a tag used to criticise his frequent travel overseas, sometimes to events of seemingly marginal relevance, at a time when many Australians felt their PM’s attention might be better directed to
When a defence industry minister falls back on pop culture memes to spell out at least $7 billion of funding for emerging technologies, well, you know something has shifted. So it was on Tuesday, when Minister for Defence Industry Pat Conroy did an obligatory pre-budget tour of local counter-drone and
The new accounting and audit rule-making body should conduct cost-benefit analyses of accounting standards to monitor the regulatory burden on entities, according to a submission from the Australian Institute of Company Directors. The Senate economics committee is finalising a report on the bill that creates External Reporting Australia, a body
Former Treasury secretary Ken Henry has told politicians to ‘stop the crap’ and raise a tax on the gas industry. The Senate created the select committee on the taxation of gas resources last month. The Greens-led committee is calling for tax reform ideas to raise more revenue from the sector.
Everything Australians need to know about plovers: why they swoop, when swooping season peaks, what the law says and how to handle nesting birds safely. read now...
Next month’s federal budget is an even tighter balancing act than usual, with Treasurer Jim Chalmers facing global economic uncertainty, a fuel crisis and the need to juggle cost-of-living relief with combating inflation. The government has been weighing up changes to negative gearing, capital gains tax, a gas export
Since the South Australian state election last month, myself and the other six new One Nation Parliamentarians have been busy organising ourselves for our first few weeks in Parliament.
We have a big responsibility to hold the failing Labor government to account and we will not shirk from our responsibilities, for if the last four years have taught us ...
Sir Olly Robbins has only been giving evidence to the foreign affairs committee for 20 minutes, and already he has made clear that he is not going to allow Keir Starmer to shape the narrative around Peter Mandelson’s vetting. The former permanent under-secretary at the Foreign Office told MPs within minutes of starting his session that when he started ...
Liz Truss’s greatest fiscal sin was her Energy Price Guarantee. True, markets didn’t like her tax cuts unmatched by spending cuts, and a Budget which froze out the Office for Budget Responsibility. But they hated an open-ended commitment to subsidise energy prices, which the government estimated would cost £25 billion in the first six months ...
I’ll say this for the RMT: they are, at least, a trade union that has long since given up the pretense of caring about the wider public good. While the insufferable junior doctors pretend their money-grabbing militancy is somehow an act of great benevolence towards patients, the rail workers’ union is so transparently a glorified protection racket that ...
Mind your language! There has recently been another smattering of incidents featuring accusations of inappropriate choice of words, or even just the wrong tone. I think it’s worth taking a closer look at some of these for what they reveal about our hang-ups, the tender areas of our discourse. What makes us wince? What is considered appropriate, and ...
On the face of it, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have just released great news on unemployment. The rate – against all expectations – has fallen from 5.2 per cent to 4.9 per cent. Radio 4’s Today programme welcomed the ‘surprising’ news. But this is no good news story.
To be classed by statisticians as unemployed you have to be actively ...