by DAVID FLINT – AUSTRALIANS’ pessimism about the future is now probably at its highest level ever. Polling suggests an extraordinary two out of three Australians say the country is heading in the wrong direction. This is hardly surprising. In the early…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – WHILE Labor’s Federal Budget has copped flak from investors and potential property buyers – including young people it’s supposed to help – it may have created a new defence loophole in legal cases. Anyone facing charges of perjury…
by PAUL COLLITS – TREASURER Jim Charmless shameless Budget makes anything Paul Keating ever did look like a stroll in the park. Business analyst Robert Gottliebsen calls his latest Budget the greatest attack on wealth this country has ever seen. In one…
by STEVEN TRIPP – DISPOSABLE household income fell by almost two per cent in Australia last year, despite other developed nations seeing high single digit increases. This places Australia as the only OECD-ranked country that saw declines in both 2023 and 2024. …
by FRED PAWLE – THE most ridiculous taxation proposal in recent memory might finally trigger the beginning of the end for compulsory superannuation in Australia. Maybe Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ plan to tax unrealised capital gains on some superannuation accounts isn’t such a…
by ROGER CROOK – US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has decided that many nations who trade with his country, do not trade fairly; he uses his definition of fairness. This statement and the threats of 25 per cent tariffs on Australian steel and…
by MICHAEL de PERCY – AFTER three years of the worst government in Australian history, it isn’t the cost-of-living crisis, the divided society, reduced productivity or the increased public spending ailing Albanese. It’s not even Tony Burke’s spurious use of citizenship ceremonies…
by NAZIYA ALVI RAHMAN – ANTHONY Albanese claimed this week that Peter Dutton was catering to the “fringe Right” – as more Leftist Liberal MPs flee parliament. In a speech aimed at Liberal leadership, the Prime Minister said those with a vision…
by PAUL COLLITS – THERE is an economic cataclysm afoot in Australia. There are signs the nation is a busted flush. Both on the surface and deep underground. You wouldn’t know it, if you rely for your news from the corporate media…
by DAVID FLINT – MUCH more than elections, the most important event in Australia in many a year has been the very clear and strong decision of the Australian people in the Voice referendum. This demonstrates, yet again, that rank-and-file Australians are…
