A bigger table needed!
The Federal Treasurer’s economic reform roundtable needed a wider range of voices, including those representing lower income Australians. More seats at the roundtable and a bigger table! The theme should …
The decade of climate action
The effects of human-caused global warming are happening now, are irreversible on the timescale of people alive today, and will worsen in the decades to come (NASA). Countries worldwide need …
An economy for the people
It’s clear – career politicians in the major parties have neither the will nor the capacity to serve the best interests of the nation. Low and middle-income workers have been hard …
Huge cost of nuclear submarines to burden Australia
Australian government debt has risen faster than any other major country over the last two decades. Federal government debt has grown by 221 per cent since 2000 to over 44% …
House prices spiral out of control as the government does nothing
Macro-prudential controls such as loan caps based on the recent taxable income of the buyers offers a way out of this situation.
A Just Transition for Fossil Fuel-Exposed Regional Economies
The clean transition will be critical to mitigating the worst impacts of global warming, and its happening whether the Government is supporting it or not.
Labor sells out to the top 10%
In abandoning reforms to negative gearing, capital gains tax and tax cuts for the wealthy, Labor has sold out to the wealthiest and most privileged in Australia at the expense of those …
Fake surprise on GBR in danger
Stunned by the UNESCO recommendation Minister Ley may be but she ought to read her own department’s advice which makes it clear that mass coral bleaching on the reef is …
Super scandal
Now we have the figures. In 2020 >3 million people withdrew $36.4 billion from their superannuation accounts. No doubt it was a popular life-saver for almost ten per cent of …
Stage 3 tax cuts – what is fair?
In a year where those in the richest 20% saw their assets inflate substantially, while wages remained flat or down, it’s amazing to see how hard those at the top …