Tuesday, April 21, 2026
ECONOMY

Journalists demand stunts from Albo as unemployment hits new low

Bernard Keane laments the state of the media pack in Crikey.Australia’s unemployment rate reached 3.9% in April, delivering a good headline for Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg in the dying days of the campaign. The...
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ECONOMY

Roundabouts and car parks? The major parties are promising much on transport, but they should stick to their jobs

Roundabouts and car parks? The major parties are promising much on transport, but they should stick to their jobs Marion Terrill, Grattan Institute In the seat-by-seat slugfest that is the federal election, transport infrastructure is once...
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ECONOMY

Budget repair starts with grants

Andrew Brown, AAP writes in Crikey Anthony Albanese says axing $750 million in government grants will go some way to repairing the budget left in a mess by the Liberal-National coalition. In a speech to the...
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ECONOMY

The Big Gas Con – how fossil fuel giants are cheating Australia’s emissions system

by Callum Foote | May 15, 2022 | An unholy alliance of carbon farmers and Big Gas lobbyists are quietly shaping Australia’s emissions reduction framework to maximise their take of taxpayer money while increasing emissions...
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ECONOMY

Renovate or detonate? Morrison opts for latter with late campaign bombshell

David Crowe The Sydney Morning Herald's Chief political correspondent writes Scott Morrison has gained the political fight he wanted by promising a housing policy that the superannuation industry, the union movement and Labor cannot abide. This...
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ECONOMY

More Mussings from Annabel

ABC's Annabell Crab writes on her blog Liberal leader Scott Morrison wants to let first homebuyers crack into their super to free up funds for home buying. Labor leader Anthony thinks that's vandalism of Australia's superannuation system —...
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ECONOMY

Every ‘bricks and mortar’ intervention results in the same thing: higher prices, not greater ownership

Saul Eslake writes in CrikeySaul Eslake is an independent economist, company director and public policy advisor. We now have almost 60 years of unambiguous and unequivocal evidence telling us that anything that allows Australians...
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ECONOMY

Minister concedes super home deposit plan will push up house prices

Dominic Gianinni / AAP writes in INQUEENSLAND The Coalition’s housing policy has been rubbished as one of the worst in 30 years while a government minister has admitted house prices would temporarily go up in the...
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