If we give a $16 billion tax break to people on higher incomes who went to university,then we’ll have to get that pound of flesh from the people who didn’t.
There’s a good chance that there’s enough bad news around on family finances that the government handouts won’t push up interest rates.
The government says it will deliver $74 billion in savings from NDIS spending across a decade. But it’s not yet apparent how this will be done.
The ups and downs of interest rates mean more to Australian families than they do to virtually anyone else on the planet.
Halving import taxes might help the government achieve its aim of easing pressure from the cost of living without also pushing up inflation.
Although the politics of “doing something” to help Australians deal with rising prices are good,the economics are bad. Here’s why.
In these times of ‘greedflation’,businesses like the CBA have too much power to push up prices. But wages growth will outpace prices in the years ahead. You can bank on it.
This nation has been strangling the future of younger Australians for decades. But the wheel is finally starting to turn.
The decisions of the RBA have never mattered as much to Australian families and businesses as they do today,and surprises – like Tuesday’s rate hike – are most unwelcome.
Despite being shot,stabbed and punched,house prices are already rising again. In fact,they’ve been rising since early February.