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The legal playing field has tilted sharply against Bernard Collaery

POLITICS
The legal playing field has tilted sharply against Bernard Collaery The latest ruling in the trial of the former ACT attorney-general effectively liberates Australia's intelligence agencies from judicial oversight. Opinion / Politics The legal playing field has tilted sharply against Bernard Collaery The latest ruling in the trial of the former ACT attorney-general...
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Integrity policy Where do the parties and candidates stand?

ELECTIONS
Over the past weeks it has been mostly confusing. Distorted by bullshit, bravado, macho statements from his and his fawning self-interest groups. Ginormous pork barreling, look-at-me-photo-ops and all the rest of the political crap driving me and perhaps you nuts. Here is a reason to STOP, Gather your thoughts and...
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Renovate or detonate? Morrison opts for latter with late campaign bombshell

ECONOMY
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 is a culture war on the economy that energises the Liberal base and gives the...
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Every ‘bricks and mortar’ intervention results in the same thing: higher prices, not greater ownership

ECONOMY
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 to pay more for housing than they otherwise would –- first homeowner grants, stamp duty...
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Minister concedes super home deposit plan will push up house prices

ECONOMY
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 short term as a result of the scheme.Federal Labor has also attacked the government’s new...
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Opinion / Politics The Liberal Party is beyond reform. That’s why this former Liberal minister says you should vote independent

ELECTIONS
Ian Macphee writes in Crikey Independent candidate for Goldstein Zoe Daniel (Image: Voices of Goldstein/Facebook) Ian Macphee served as the Liberal member for Goldstein for 16 years between 1974 and 1990, and was a minister during the Fraser government. I once intended this article to be about how the Liberal Party could reform itself...
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The erosion of Medicare

ECONOMY
Charles Maskell-Knight writes in Pearls and Irritations Large out-of-pocket costs for specialist consultations driven by inadequate indexations are undermining Medicare.   When Medicare was introduced in 1984 – replicating the key features of Medibank as it operated in 1975-76 – the policy intention was clear: access to health services by Australians should...
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Superannuation for houses is a bad policy

POLITICS
Katharine Murphy writes in The Guardian If the 2022 contest is between a bulldozer and a builder, it makes sense that the final act of the election be staged on a residential housing construction site. Back when Scott Morrison was being written off erroneously as a dead prime minister walking at...
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Make your vote count

ELECTIONS
First-past-the-post Elections that use a simple majority, or first-past-the-post, system elect a candidate who has received the most number of votes in a contest following a single count. This is regardless of whether or not the number of votes for the successful candidate represents a majority of the total amount...
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Morrison ramps up class war with intergenerational wealth shift — yet pitches at first-time buyers

ECONOMY
Bernard Keane writes in Crikey May 15, 2022 Scott Morrison has made senior homeowners the centre of the federal Liberal election launch, promising to allow homebuyers to raid their superannuation for home purchases and expanding access to superannuation tax concessions for wealthy seniors who sell their properties. In a recognition that...
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