FOR three-quarters of a century, US Government bonds have been as good as gold. Indeed, better, because gold does not pay interest. [click to continue…]
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SUPERANNUATION has probably done more to help the rich get richer than provide lower-income earners get a better retirement income than the pension. [click to continue…]
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WHEN will these politicians and economists get it? [click to continue…]
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AURUKUN and Kowanyama are remote places in Queensland. So remote that no-one can even make a go of running pubs there. [click to continue…]
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POLITICAL scientists, journalists and others frequently refer to the advantages of incumbency, but this parliamentary session, particularly this week, it is better to talk about the advantages of Opposition. [click to continue…]
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THE case for increasing the GST was strengthened this week by revelations from the Australian Tax Office. [click to continue…]
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IT IS now a year and a day since Queensland Coroner Michael Barnes handed down his findings in the case of the sinking of the Malu Sara – a Department of Immigration border protection vessel – with the loss of five lives. [click to continue…]
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A COUPLE of weeks ago I was saved by a sub-editor from committing an egregious error of history in this column. [click to continue…]
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HOW apt that the debate which major political parties have tried to avoid for so long should become one of the major talking points of the week of Australia Day – our population. [click to continue…]
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THE Government has been holding back the report of the Henry Tax Review for a month now. It is an unusual piece of media-policy-agenda manipulation. The more astonishing thing is that nothing much has leaked from it, except a few pronouncements by Ken Henry himself. [click to continue…]
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