Economic justice, not Left and Right
Over the last six months or so, any remaining illusions that Australia’s housing bubble and banking system are somehow fundamentally different or ‘exceptional’ to the long and painful history of credit-fuelled asset bubbles – and the associated mathematical certainties of … Read more
Co-written by Kate Tucker. This article is the second part of my “State of the Housing Bubble” series, which began with Housing bubble is now official, commence arse-covering (panic)!. It is a long form article, so I put some … Read more
Well this is all getting very exciting isn’t it?! The hills are suddenly alive with the sound of housing bubble music. Never mind that a growing mosh-pit of ‘doomsaying’ international economic peak bodies, ratings agencies, investment houses, economists, researchers, entitled … Read more
Dear Prime Minister Turnbull,
I am writing to belatedly and publicly call your bluff on your so called ‘innovation agenda’, which forms a key plank of your ‘Plan’ for jobs and growth. There are all kinds of reasons to be … Read more
By Bryan Kavanagh, cross-posted from Online Opinion, March 29th 2016
The Australian Federal Treasury publication “Architecture of Australia’s tax and transfer system” (August 2008) made a valid observation:
… Read moreWhile there are at least a hundred taxes, they all ultimately